Delhi assembly’s budget session from June 15

July 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The next session of Parliament will begin from today. The Economic Survey will be presented in the Lok Sabha today.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said that the government was looking forward to the Budget session of the Parliament with great expectation.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The next session of Parliament will begin on Thursday. The Economic Survey will be presented in the Lok Sabha on July 2.

June 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has convened an all-party meeting on Wednesday ahead of the Budget session of Parliament. The meeting is being held to ensure smooth conduct of the session, which will conclude on August 7.

June 26th, 2009 PATNA - Neither display of placards nor shouting of slogans against the Nitish Kumar-led government -- the month-long monsoon session of the Bihar assembly began on a different note Friday. Peacefully. Contrary to past practice, when the opposition normally created ruckus in the house, the first day of the session saw the formal commencement marked by a brief address by the speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary following which he ordered adjournment for the day.

June 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Legislators from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday staged a demonstration outside the Delhi assembly to protest power and water shortage in the national capital. The legislators and other Delhi BJP members gathered outside the assembly demanding that the Delhi government take immediate measures to provide relief to people reeling under power and water shortage in various parts of the capital.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The union budget for 2009-10 would be presented on July 6 and the railways budget three days earlier on July 3. The schedule for the budget session of parliament was decided at a meeting of the union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before his departure for the Russian city of Yekaterinburg to attend the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) summits.

June 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian government said Wednesday it would get parliament's approval for the fiscal 2009-10 budget by July 31. "We have no idea for going in for a second vote-on-account.

June 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first session of Parliament will conclude today after Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will reply to the Motion of Thanks on the President's address.

June 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first session of 15th Lok Sabha starts Monday morning with the first two days of Parliament kept for newly elected members to take oath followed by election of the Speaker on June 3. The first person to be administered oath will be Leader of the House Pranab Mukherjee followed by Leader of Opposition L K Advani.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The first session of the 15th Lok Sabha will begin June 1. The decision was taken Saturday at the first meeting of the cabinet that was sworn in Friday.

May 17th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The newly-elected Lok Sabha to be constituted after the elections is all set to have a full budget session in June which will last till August, but it will have no monsoon session this year. President Pratibha Devisingh Patil will make the customary address to the first and brief joint session of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, marking the beginning of the new House, said Lok Sabha Secretary General P D T Achary to media persons in the capital on Saturday.

May 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The budget session of the new Lok Sabha will be held in the middle of June, an official said Friday. Before this, there will be a brief session, on the first two days of which the members elected to the house will be sworn in, while the speaker will be elected on the third day, Lok Sabha Secretary General P.D.T.

February 10th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - The budget session of the Kerala assembly will start Friday and is expected to be stormy as the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is hit by factionalism and corruption charges against a top party leader. 'The session would end on March 5 and the state budget for 2009-10 would be presented on Feb 20,' Speaker K.

January 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - There will be no tax breaks before the budget, the government said here Tuesday. 'I don't expect tax breaks between now and the budget session,' said Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia.