Vyapam Protest

The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to a medical practitioner, who also claimed to be a whistleblower in the sensational Vyapam scam, in a case of alleged violence during a protest in Madhya Pradesh.

Protesting against proposed amendments in Whistleblowers Protection Act-2011, an RTI activist from Madhya Pradesh, who exposed the Vyapam scam, met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi over the issue.

After days of appearing to be the loudest protesters in Parliament, the Congress today looked far from isolated as most opposition parties, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Trinamool, decided to boycott the Lok Sabha for five days in a show of solidarity after 25 Congress lawmakers were suspended from the Lok Sabha.

Four minutes after it convened this morning, the Lok Sabha was adjourned till Monday, a fourth day of work lost in the lower house this monsoon session. The Rajya Sabha saw repeated adjournments, finally for the day amid slogan shouting and protests by Opposition lawmakers.

Here is some worrying math after four days of Parliament's monsoon session, washed out by protests and adjournments. If all 18 working days of this short session are disrupted, an estimated Rs 35 crore of the taxpayer's money will be lost.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon soon after Parliament proceedings began today, the third day of the Monsoon Session. In the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley led an aggressive counterattack on the Congress-led Opposition, before the Upper House too was adjourned.

Congress today staged protest seeking Supreme Court-monitored probe in Vyapam scam and deaths of people allegedly associated with it in New Delhi.

In 2013, reports emerged that bribes were being paid in Madhya Pradesh to top politicians and bureaucrats in exchange for allowing proxy candidates to take qualifying exams for government jobs. The 35 deaths in the multi-crore Vyapam scam that have racked up point to a dark, ruthless cover-up, the opposition Congress is demanding that the CBI take ...

The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to a medical practitioner, who also claimed to be a whistleblower in the sensational Vyapam scam, in a case of alleged violence during a protest in Madhya Pradesh.

Protesting against proposed amendments in Whistleblowers Protection Act-2011, an RTI activist from Madhya Pradesh, who exposed the Vyapam scam, met Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi over the issue.

After days of appearing to be the loudest protesters in Parliament, the Congress today looked far from isolated as most opposition parties, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Trinamool, decided to boycott the Lok Sabha for five days in a show of solidarity after 25 Congress lawmakers were suspended from the Lok Sabha.

Four minutes after it convened this morning, the Lok Sabha was adjourned till Monday, a fourth day of work lost in the lower house this monsoon session. The Rajya Sabha saw repeated adjournments, finally for the day amid slogan shouting and protests by Opposition lawmakers.

Here is some worrying math after four days of Parliament's monsoon session, washed out by protests and adjournments. If all 18 working days of this short session are disrupted, an estimated Rs 35 crore of the taxpayer's money will be lost.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned till noon soon after Parliament proceedings began today, the third day of the Monsoon Session. In the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley led an aggressive counterattack on the Congress-led Opposition, before the Upper House too was adjourned.

Congress today staged protest seeking Supreme Court-monitored probe in Vyapam scam and deaths of people allegedly associated with it in New Delhi.

In 2013, reports emerged that bribes were being paid in Madhya Pradesh to top politicians and bureaucrats in exchange for allowing proxy candidates to take qualifying exams for government jobs. The 35 deaths in the multi-crore Vyapam scam that have racked up point to a dark, ruthless cover-up, the opposition Congress is demanding that the CBI take ...