Pti Lawmakers

Pakistan's new parliament elected a speaker on Friday, despite protests from lawmakers loyal to jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan three weeks after an election they claim was brazenly rigged.

The lawmakers from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) on Wednesday came down heavily on the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) regime over its counter-terror policy, the Dawn reported.

Forty-four lawmakers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have decided to withdraw their resignations from Pakistan's National Assembly, PTI General Secretary Asad Umar announced in a tweet on Monday.

A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party lawmaker loyal to former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday threatened to target the current rulers of the country with a suicide attack if his leader was harmed.

Former Pakistan minister for information and broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Sunday that his party members would resign from the National Assembly on Monday if the nomination of President Shahbaz Sharif is accepted.

Four Goa legislators, including three Congress rebels who joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recently, would be inducted in the state cabinet on Saturday, sources told news agency PTI today.

The bail was granted to Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 after he appeared before the court and moved the bail application.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has asked the members of parliament in the party to focus on their constituencies and take up strongly the problems of farmers while leaving the issue of alliance with the BJP to him.

Pakistani lawmakers are set to choose a new President on Tuesday, an election in which the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party's candidate is expected to win as the Opposition parties failed to field a joint candidate.

The devastating floods in Kerala are the result of cow slaughter in the state, a BJP lawmaker in neighbouring Karnataka has said in an outrageous comment. Basangouda Patil Yatnal went as far as to say that Kerala was suffering the consequences of "hurting Hindu sentiment".

Pakistani lawmakers have endorsed Imran Khan as their next prime minister, ahead of a ceremony on Saturday that should see the cricketer sworn in as leader of the nuclear-armed nation. Khan scraped together a simple majority in a confidence vote held in the lower house of parliament, three weeks after an election tainted by claims of military meddl...

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's celebratory tweet after his party's win in a recent by-poll at Jokihat triggered an angry exchange of words between the JDU and RJD leaders today. JDU lawmaker Neeraj Kumar said he never expected very "high standards" from Mr Yadav as he did not even "complete high school". RJD said in response that even Kalidas and Tuls...

A day before BS Yeddyurappa has to prove his majority on the floor of the assembly, former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has alleged that the BJP has "abducted and wrongfully confined" Congress lawmaker Anand Singh.

China has a plan to "isolate" India and Japan and project its power with an aim to control the Indian Ocean region, a US lawmaker warned on Thursday. Beijing, he said, has its eyes set on Taiwan, which it claims as part of China. The American lawmaker went on to say that Beijing's plan is to turn neighbouring country Taiwan into "a major nuclear an...

BJP lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha said today that he would contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 from the Patna Sahib constituency, even if the situation is "otherwise". Mr Sinha was in Bihar's capital to attend the wedding ceremony of Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of RJD chief Lalu Yadav.

Pakistan's new parliament elected a speaker on Friday, despite protests from lawmakers loyal to jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan three weeks after an election they claim was brazenly rigged.

The lawmakers from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) on Wednesday came down heavily on the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) regime over its counter-terror policy, the Dawn reported.

Forty-four lawmakers of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have decided to withdraw their resignations from Pakistan's National Assembly, PTI General Secretary Asad Umar announced in a tweet on Monday.

A Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party lawmaker loyal to former prime minister Imran Khan on Monday threatened to target the current rulers of the country with a suicide attack if his leader was harmed.

Former Pakistan minister for information and broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Sunday that his party members would resign from the National Assembly on Monday if the nomination of President Shahbaz Sharif is accepted.

Four Goa legislators, including three Congress rebels who joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) recently, would be inducted in the state cabinet on Saturday, sources told news agency PTI today.

The bail was granted to Congress lawmaker Shashi Tharoor on a personal bond of Rs 20,000 after he appeared before the court and moved the bail application.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has asked the members of parliament in the party to focus on their constituencies and take up strongly the problems of farmers while leaving the issue of alliance with the BJP to him.

Pakistani lawmakers are set to choose a new President on Tuesday, an election in which the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party's candidate is expected to win as the Opposition parties failed to field a joint candidate.

The devastating floods in Kerala are the result of cow slaughter in the state, a BJP lawmaker in neighbouring Karnataka has said in an outrageous comment. Basangouda Patil Yatnal went as far as to say that Kerala was suffering the consequences of "hurting Hindu sentiment".

Pakistani lawmakers have endorsed Imran Khan as their next prime minister, ahead of a ceremony on Saturday that should see the cricketer sworn in as leader of the nuclear-armed nation. Khan scraped together a simple majority in a confidence vote held in the lower house of parliament, three weeks after an election tainted by claims of military meddl...

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's celebratory tweet after his party's win in a recent by-poll at Jokihat triggered an angry exchange of words between the JDU and RJD leaders today. JDU lawmaker Neeraj Kumar said he never expected very "high standards" from Mr Yadav as he did not even "complete high school". RJD said in response that even Kalidas and Tuls...

A day before BS Yeddyurappa has to prove his majority on the floor of the assembly, former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has alleged that the BJP has "abducted and wrongfully confined" Congress lawmaker Anand Singh.

China has a plan to "isolate" India and Japan and project its power with an aim to control the Indian Ocean region, a US lawmaker warned on Thursday. Beijing, he said, has its eyes set on Taiwan, which it claims as part of China. The American lawmaker went on to say that Beijing's plan is to turn neighbouring country Taiwan into "a major nuclear an...

BJP lawmaker Shatrughan Sinha said today that he would contest the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 from the Patna Sahib constituency, even if the situation is "otherwise". Mr Sinha was in Bihar's capital to attend the wedding ceremony of Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of RJD chief Lalu Yadav.