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Alliance India: Members of Parliament in talks for reality show, makers engage legal firm for NDAs | Exclusive

Alliance India: Members of Parliament in talks for reality show, makers engage legal firm for NDAs | Exclusive

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Long before Prime Video and Banijay Asia unveil the official contestant lineup for Alliance India, the upcoming reality series has already become one of the most talked-about projects. The show was formally announced during Prime Video’s 2026 slate reveal in March this year. According to sources, the makers are putting together an unusually extensive legal framework as they are trying to get politicians, including Members of Parliament as contestants. The Alliance India was announced in March 2026. Top Delhi law firm engaged According to the source, the production has brought on board a leading Delhi-based law firm to oversee contestant agreements, non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), contracts, and other legal processes connected to the series. While large-scale reality shows routinely involve legal teams, the source claims the level of legal preparation being undertaken for Alliance India stands out even by industry standards. Makers in talks with MPs According to the source, discussions are believed to have taken place with personalities from outside the entertainment industry, including prominent politicians and Members of Parliament. “There is a reason why …

Ministry, NTA officials to face Parliament panel over re-exam

Ministry, NTA officials to face Parliament panel over re-exam

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Top officials of the Health and Education ministries, National Testing Agency (NTA), and National Medical Commission (NMC), will brief a parliamentary panel on Wednesday over the conduct of the NEET-UG re-examination. The Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare has summoned the secretaries of Higher Education and Health, besides top officials of the NTA, and NMC, to brief the panel on the NEET re-exam. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Mamata’s nephew Abhishek visits Delhi amid fears of TMC Bengal revolt spreading to Parliament

Mamata’s nephew Abhishek visits Delhi amid fears of TMC Bengal revolt spreading to Parliament

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Days after the party faced a rebellion, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday visited Delhi, amid fears that the split in ranks could reach the Parliament. Abhishek’s visit came a day before TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit the National Capital for an INDIA bloc meeting. Abhishek Banerjee’s visit came a day before TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to visit the National Capital for an INDIA bloc meeting. (Handout via PTI) While Mamata and Abhishek were earlier scheduled to travel to Delhi at the same time for the opposition alliance’s meeting according to the original schedule, the latter reached the Capital a day earlier. While an official reason for the visit was not specified, it is being viewed by leaders and observers as a possible attempt by the TMC’s top brass to assess the situation before the INDIA bloc meeting. “I don’t know why Abhishek is going to Delhi today. I am not in Delhi or Kolkata now. I haven’t heard about any meeting,” a TMC MP, who did not …

Are Ordinances Killing the Soul of India’s Parliamentary Democracy?

Are Ordinances Killing the Soul of India’s Parliamentary Democracy?

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5 min readJun 2, 2026 04:03 PM IST First published on: Jun 2, 2026 at 04:03 PM IST The promulgation of the Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Ordinance 2026 has predictably triggered a familiar set of debates. Is expanding the Court’s strength the rightful remedy to address its mounting caseload, now exceeding 93,000 pending matters? Who should be appointed to these seats? What does the timing tell us about the government’s intentions and its relationship with the judiciary? These are legitimate questions, each worthy of sustained inquiry. But there is a prior, and much more structural, question that must not get crowded out in the urgency of the moment. What does the routine resort to the ordinance route tell us about the position of our Parliament? What are the costs when constitutional reform of this kind proceeds by executive fiat rather than legislative deliberation? Article 123 of the Constitution empowers the President to promulgate ordinances only when Parliament is not in session and circumstances require immediate action. The provision was designed as an emergency …

NTA briefs parliament panel amid fresh political storm

NTA briefs parliament panel amid fresh political storm

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A parliamentary standing committee meeting convened to examine the merits of pen-and-paper versus computer-based testing turned into a political and institutional flashpoint on Monday. The National Testing Agency (NTA) defended its June 21 NEET-UG retest plan, while Congress chair Digvijaya Singh warned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal accountability was now on the line. Meanwhile, representatives of a doctors’ body that has approached the Supreme Court over the alleged NEET paper leak were prevented from deposing before the panel after objections from ruling party members. The meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports — chaired by Congress MP Digvijaya Singh — brought together top NTA officials including Director General Abhishek Singh, Higher Education Secretary Vineet Joshi, and Health and Family Welfare Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava. The agenda was a comparative discussion on pen-and-paper and computer-based testing systems. NTA: June 21 retest in pen-and-paper mode, CBT from 2027 NTA officials told the committee that the agency’s entire focus at present was on conducting the NEET-UG re-examination on June 21 in …

Protests erupt in Nepal’s parliament after Balendra Shah’s remarks on border dispute with India

Protests erupt in Nepal’s parliament after Balendra Shah’s remarks on border dispute with India

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Proceedings in both houses of Nepal’s Parliament were disrupted on Monday as lawmakers protested against Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s recent remarks on the border-related issue. Protests erupted in both houses of Nepal’s parliament following his comments on border-related issues (AFP) Members of the House of Representatives and the National Assembly of Nepal staged demonstrations, demanding an apology from Shah and the removal of his remarks from the parliamentary records. Opposition parties, who had obstructed the session in the House of Representatives, continued their protest on Monday, insisting that the Prime Minister retract his statement. Gyan Bahadur Shahi, a lawmaker from the Rastriya Prajatantra Party in the House of Representatives, said any remarks made by the Prime Minister should be based on facts. “When a Prime Minister makes any statement or claim, then it becomes the official announcement; the international community perceives it as the official view; the public accepts it as the ultimate truth. Any statement given by the Prime Minister should be based on the facts, evidence and reality. A nation can never moves …

Karti Chidambaram demands Parliament session over PM Modi’s ‘7 appeals’

Karti Chidambaram demands Parliament session over PM Modi’s ‘7 appeals’

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Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram on Monday said that the government immediately convene Parliament to brief the nation over “seven appeals” made by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make India stronger and self-Reliant. Calling this appeals “very serious directives” from the Prime Minister’s Office, Congress leader wrote on X, “What are the triggers for this? The Government must convene Parliament immediately & take the nation into confidence & inform us about the true state of affairs which has necessitated these ‘appeals’.” He was responding to a post by MyGov on X that listed seven appeals from Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to strengthen India during challenging global times.” Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link

Increasing strength of Parliament to 850 a ‘joke’, says Tharoor

Increasing strength of Parliament to 850 a ‘joke’, says Tharoor

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Increasing the strength of Parliament’s lower house to 850 is a “joke”, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, contending that it would turn it into a ‘desi’ version of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference, which was countered by BJP leaders. Participating in the Stanford India Conference 2026 in California on Sunday (May 10, 2026), BJP leader Tejasvi Surya argued that delimitation was a “democratic necessity” to ensure more accountability from elected representatives and termed it “absurd” to allow composition of Parliament to remain frozen in time at 543 – the current strength of the Lok Sabha. “The 1971 population cannot cater to a democracy of 140 crore people in 2026,” Mr. Surya, the Lok Sabha MP, countered Mr. Tharoor, who cited the example of the U.S. Congress which continues to have a strength of 435 members since 1929. BJP leader K. Annamalai said the delimitation exercise was a “grand bargain” between the North and South Indian States before the outcome of the ongoing Census is made public. Mr. Annamalai, the former Tamil Nadu BJP chief, …

Supreme Court asks if there was a ‘proper debate’ in Parliament before enacting CEC/EC appointments law

Supreme Court asks if there was a ‘proper debate’ in Parliament before enacting CEC/EC appointments law

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Supreme Court of India. File. | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA The Supreme Court on Thursday (May 7, 2026) asked if there had been a “proper debate” in the Parliament about the “ethos” of its 2023 judgment that took the appointment of members of the Election Commission of India out of the exclusive hands of the political executive, namely, “the party which not unnaturally has an interest in perpetuating itself in power”. In a 2023 judgment in Anoop Baranwal versus Union of India, a Constitution Bench of the court had replaced the mechanism of the President appointing the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioners on the sole advice of the Prime Minister with a more participatory appointment process involving a three-member selection committee of the Prime Minister, the Opposition Leader in the Lok Sabha, and the Chief Justice of India. The court had said the committee would be in place till the Parliament brought in a law to replace it. The Union government had reacted to that judgment within months, by bringing in a law …

On delimitation and Parliament seats | Explained

On delimitation and Parliament seats | Explained

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The Bill proposed to increase the maximum number of Lok Sabha seats from 550 to 850 | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: The Union government had introduced the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to increase the maximum number of Lok Sabha seats from the existing 550 to 850. It had also introduced a Bill to set up the Delimitation Commission in 2026. However, the Constitution Amendment Bill was defeated in the Lok Sabha, and thereafter, the Delimitation Bill was withdrawn by the government. Published – April 20, 2026 08:30 am IST Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more information and to view the original source, please visit the following link: Source link