Congress parliamentarian Renuka Chowdhury has put up a motion for breach of privilege against Union Minister Kiren Rijiju for sharing on Facebook a post mocking her laughter after Prime Minister Narendra Modi joked about it in the Rajya Sabha. Mr Rijijus post on Wednesday night had a video clip from the 1980s series Ramayana,in which the mythical character Surpanakha, the evil sister of demon king Ravana, cackles loudly. Later in the video was a clip from the Rajya Sabha, when PM Modi took a dig at Ms Chowdhury for laughing loudly in the middle of his speech. This is highly objectionable,sai ... Read More

The US government on Thursday was assured of careening into its second shutdown in three weeks beginning at midnight after the Senate adjourned when a conservative lawmaker blocked a vote on a far-reaching budget deal. The upper chamber of Congress closed up shop late Thursday and scheduled a reopening for a new session at 12:01 am Friday, when it will launch a new effort to pass the bill to extend government funding. The Senate was expected to schedule a vote on the measure at 1:00 am and, if it passes, send it to the House of Representatives and then on to President Donald Trump for his si ... Read More

The federal government shut down for the second time in three weeks Friday, driven to the brink by acute congressional dysfunction and pushed over it by the objections of a single conservative senator. The partial shutdown began just after midnight when the government, operating on the latest in a series of short-term spending bills, ran out of money because Congress missed its deadline to pass a new one. But the closure could be brief, with minimal disruptions to federal workers and others. The Senate was expected to pass a massive spending deal in the early morning hours Friday that would ... Read More

It was about two years ago when Rita Sarkar began to feel a sharp ache in her abdomen. Sarkar, of West Bengal, told her husband about the pain, and he took her to a medical facility in Kolkata for treatment. They convinced her she needed an operation,her father said in a phone interview with The Washington Post. Medical staff at the facility told Sarkar she needed an immediate appendectomy. She underwent surgery the next day, she told India's the Telegraph. My husband warned me not to disclose the surgery in Kolkata to anyone,Sarkar told the Hindustan Times. They kept her inside her home for ... Read More

Dubbed as the biggest tax reform in the country, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) may have some happy side effects on aam aadmis pocket by unintentionally taking out tax thunder from the Union Budget 2018 speech. Part A of the Union Budget largely deals with the financial policies and their respective significance in terms of spending by the government while Part B deals with taxation that impacts common mans everyday life. The announcement of indirect tax proposals every year in the Budget would make things costlier or cheaper depending upon the central governments taxation policy for the ye ... Read More

A 22-year-old woman, who was returning home from work on last evening, was kidnapped and gang-raped allegedly by four men in a moving car for nearly two hours in Haryanas Faridabad. They later dumped her near Ballabhgarh. No arrests have been made so far, Pooja Dabla, head of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) that is investigating the case, said. According to police, the incident took place around 6.30 pm when a few men in a sports utility vehicle (SUV) forcibly pulled her into the vehicle and took turns to rape her. ... Read More