What Parliament debates, passes and leaves undone.
Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Thursday evening that Murugan had left the Council of Ministers with immediate effect, two days after he asked to go back to party work in Tamil Nadu.
Parliament's spending watchdog was due to take evidence on pre-matric and post-matric scholarships for Scheduled Caste students, based on a CAG audit, as several new committees began their year's work.
The standing committee led by Bhartruhari Mahtab is examining a bill that would replace the 1959 law governing the Indian Statistical Institute and turn the Kolkata institute into a body corporate.
It is the third extension for the MPs who left the TMC for the NCPI in June. The Supreme Court has asked the Speaker to decide the case quickly but has set no deadline.
The Lok Sabha worked 15% of its scheduled time by PRS's count and 19% by the government's. Nine of the 11 Bills it passed had no speaker but the minister.
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