Rajya Sabha

ONI Bureau:  Good Afternoon Readers! Here are the Afternoon News Bulletin on India and World by Odisha News Insight. —   Cyclone Phethai: 14,000 hectares of Crops destroyed in Andhra Pradesh. —   1984 Riots Convict Sajjan Kumar quits…

ONI Bureau:  Good Afternoon Readers! Here are the Afternoon News Bulletin on India and World by Odisha News Insight. —  Madhya Pradesh Elections 2018: Shivraj Singh Chouhan tenders his resignation to the Governor Anandiben Patel, earlier…

ONI Bureau: The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has decided to go aggressive to garner support for 33% reservation for women in both Parliament and State Assemblies. It was decided at a crucial meeting at the Naveen Niwas this evening. The party…

ONI Bureau:  Former parliamentarian Baishnab Charan Parida breathed his last on Friday at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar. He was 77. Parida was diagnosed with cancer and undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Bhubaneswar.…

ONI Bureau:  The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved an ordinance making triple talaq a criminal offence, a bill on which is pending in the Rajya Sabha. Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad gave the information to the media after the cabinet…

ONI Bureau:  A reply to a query under the RTI Act has revealed that as many as 65 members of the Lok Sabha and 29 of the Rajya Sabha are yet to declare their assets and liabilities. Out of that 4 Biju Janata Dal (JD) MPs are yet to declare…

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday unanimously passed the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2018, which seeks to overturn a Supreme Court order that struck down the provision for immediate arrest of…

The Odisha unit of the Congress on Thursday said that the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) supported the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate for the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson's post in fear of a CBI inquiry into the chit fund…

ONI Bureau:   The BJP-led NDA's candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh was elected as the Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairperson on Thursday. The National Democratic Alliance candidate got 125 votes as against 105 of Opposition candidate B.K.…

ONI Bureau: Putting all rumours and speculations into rest, Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik announced BJD's support to NDA Candidate Harivansh Narayan Singh for the Rajya Sabha deputy chairman post. Earlier, BJP President Amit Shah, PM Narendra…