Amid the recurring debate over whether northern states could gain at the expense of the South in any future Lok Sabha expansion, the historical record tells a more complicated story. Between 1951 and ...

Exit 323 on Interstate 81, near the Virginia/West Virginia border, looks a little desolate. There’s an Amazon warehouse, a fireworks store, a Methodist church, and some mobile homes and old houses ...

The Women’s Reservation Bill sparked a major political debate in Parliament, but the focus quickly shifted to the contentious issue of delimitation. While the bill promises 33% reservation for women, ...

Sarvam AI has launched a new text-to-speech AI model called Bulbul v2, available in 11 Indian languages including Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and ...

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The government needed a two-thirds majority to secure approval for the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, but managed only 298 votes in favour, while 230 members opposed it. The Constitution ...

A heated debate has erupted in Parliament over the Women’s Reservation Bill, with Narendra Modi urging parties not to politicise the issue. Meanwhile, Priyanka Gandhi and other opposition leaders have ...

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NEW DELHI: A sharp exchange took place in the Lok Sabha on Thursday over the Samajwadi Party’s demand to extend reservation for Muslim and OBC women under the women’s reservation framework, with Union ...

India may soon see a bigger Parliament and more women lawmakers. But how will it actually work? This explainer unpacks the government’s proposal to expand the Lok Sabha to 850 seats and reserve 273 ...

In a bid to effect these changes, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would seek to amend the bill in both houses of the parliament. By which, it would supersede the existing allocation, connected ...

New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): A high-voltage political confrontation erupted in the Lok Sabha on Thursday as Congress MP KC Venugopal opposed the introduction of the Constitution (One Hundred and ...