Rajya Sabha Chairman administers oath to Nitish Kumar, Harivansh in Parliament

April 10, 2026 4:20 PM

Rajya Sabha Chairman administers oath to Nitish Kumar, Harivansh in Parliament

Rajya Sabha Chairman C. P. Radhakrishnan on Friday administered the oath of office to newly elected member Nitish Kumar and newly nominated member Harivansh Narayan Singh at the Parliament House. Nitish Kumar, representing Bihar, took the oath in Hindi after being elected to the Rajya Sabha. His induction marks a significant transition in his political career as he moves from state politics to the national legislature. Harivansh Narayan Singh, who was recently nominated to the Upper House, als...

Human institutional knowledge key to accountable AI in Parliaments: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh

January 15, 2026 9:55 PM

Human institutional knowledge key to accountable AI in Parliaments: Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh

Emphasising the primacy of human judgment in the age of artificial intelligence, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh on Thursday said that institutional memory and contextual human knowledge must remain central to the development and use of AI in legislatures. Addressing a workshop on the adoption of artificial intelligence during the 28th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth (CSPOC) in New Delhi, Harivansh said that if AI is to be integrated into parliamentary fu...