Get Women's Bill passed this session, Sonia tells Vajpayee
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked the Vajpayee Government to ensure that the Parliament approved the Women's Reservation Bill, which is being opposed by several Opposition parties as also a section of Muslim MPs. She said that Congress would support the bill, which provides for 33% reservation to women in Lok Sabha and state legislatures.

SAD cry for Udham Singh Nagar: Just politics at play
Is the demand of the Shiromani Akali Dal leaders for exclusion of Udham Singh Nagar from the proposed Uttaranchal State more political in nature than emotional, as they have been claiming? Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in Uttar Pradesh have been questioning the timing of the Akali demand: just before the Uttaranchal Bill was to be tabled in Parliament.

LS Dy Speaker's post: BJP not to give in easily
A contest for the post of Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha loomed round the corner with the BJP ruling out conceding it to the Congress. The party now wants the Congress to support its candidate for the post as a quid pro quo gesture for the support offered by the ruling combine to the latter for the post of Deputy Chairperson in the Rajya Sabha.