The Latest Breaking News from the Legislative Council

Primary and Secondary Education MInister S. Madhu Bangarappa on Monday assured the Legislative Council that a meeting will soon be convened to decide on filling up vacant posts in aided secondary schools and pre-university (PU) colleges that have been created due to retirement, death and resignation after December 2015.

Nearly 45% (31,146) of the total 69.811 sanctioned posts in the State Health and Family Welfare Department are lying vacant. Of the vacant posts, 9,560 have been outsourced, Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao informed the Legislative Council on Monday. Action is being initiated to fill the vacancies, he said.

Intense lobbying has begun in the ruling Congress in Karnataka as eight seats have fallen vacant in the Legislative Council. The Congress is all set to secure six of the eight seats.

The Election Commission of India has issued a notification for the conduct of the byelections to the three casual vacancies in the Legislative Council from the Legislative Assembly constituency, on June 30.

In light of Opposition parties boycotting the inauguration of the new Parliament building in New Delhi on May 28, BJP lawmakers in Bihar on May 26 hit out at Janata Dal(U) supremo and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, pointing out how he had not given “due respect” to the Governor while…

Eight newly-elected MLCs from the local body constituencies took charge at the Legislative Council on May 15.

A Labor MP has accused female Liberal politicians of "screaming and screeching" in SA parliament, in an exchange that left the women questioning whether the same accusation would have been made of a man.

Exiled Liberal MP Moira Deeming could be expelled from the party next week after threatening to take legal action to reverse her partyroom suspension.

Chairman of Legislative Council leads the tirade of BRS leaders against Congress leaders who put up a show of unity at a public meeting in Nalgonda