Tag: Lok Sabha
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Despite Lok Sabha panel warning 82 former MPs yet to vacate bungalows
On August 19, the Lok Sabha Housing Committee headed by CR Patil had ordered around 200 ex-MPs, who did not vacate their bungalows, to give up the facility within a week and disconnect their power, water and cooking gas connections within three days.
September 15, 2019 -
CBI summons Sovan Chatterjee, Subhendu Adhikary again
The agency which is on an overdrive to conclude the probe in the Narada pay-off scam and file chargesheet against the 13 accused against whom the FIR had been lodged by the agency had summoned 10 accused out of the 13 to record their voice samples.
September 10, 2019 -
Mamata Banerjee asks ministers to not take Puja leave
In a bid to reach out to the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) communities of the state, the Trinamul Congress supremo, Mamata Banerjee has asked party MLAs to submit names of five SC and ST members from their respective constituencies.
September 3, 2019 -
Varanasi: Muslim women send rakhis to elder brother Modi
The women sent hand-made 'rakhis' to Modi and called him their elder brother who protected them from the evil practice of triple talaq.
August 11, 2019 -
‘Can marry fair Kashmiri women now’: BJP leader stokes row after Article 370 scrapped
Article 370 grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament’s power to make laws concerning the state.
August 7, 2019 -
Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Bill 2019 passed in LS, state to be bifurcated
Home Minister Amit Shah, while replying to the debate on Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill, 2019 in the Lok Sabha, said as Article 370 stops Jammu and Kashmir to associating with India, it should be abolished.
August 6, 2019 -
‘Under house arrest’, claims Farooq Abdullah after Amit Shah says NC leader ‘at home out of free will’
Abdullah, who was also a former Jammu and Kashmir CM, made an appearance before the media in Srinagar a day after Article 370 was scrapped by the Government.
August 6, 2019 -
Abrogation of Article 370: ‘Not a political move’, Amit Shah hits back at Cong, asserts ‘J-K includes PoK’
The Congress, which has stood firmly against the repealing of the article questioned the procedure and laws used to scrap Article 370.
August 6, 2019 -
Abrogation of Article 370, J-K Reorganisation Bill to be moved in Lok Sabha today
In an unprecedented move, the Centre has scrapped Article 370 of the Indian Constitution which gives autonomous status to the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
August 6, 2019 -
Lok Sabha passes Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill
Going by the bill, a person would have the right to choose to be identified as a man, woman or transgender, irrespective of sex reassignment surgery and hormonal therapy.
August 5, 2019 -
Lok Sabha passes Jallianwala Bagh Bill amid Congress walkout
Lok Sabha on Friday passed ‘The Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (amendment) Bill’, which seeks to remove the Congress president as a trustee, amid vociferous protests from the party members who later walked out. Piloting the bill, Culture Minister Prahlad Patel asserted that national memorials cannot be “political memorials” and they should be kept away from …
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August 2, 2019 -
Bugs in the MSP bill
The proposed law to ensure minimum support price to farmers may aggravate and not alleviate agrarian distress, says SATYAJIT PATTANAYAK
August 2, 2019 -
OPDs to remain shut today as IMA calls for nationwide protest against Medical Bill
The protesting doctors have alleged that Section 32 of the proposed NMC Bill will intensify quackery by rural medical practitioners, private medical practitioners and others.
July 31, 2019 -
2 parties walk out in protest over triple talaq bill, clears govt path for smooth passage in Rajya Sabha
Introducing the bill in the Upper House, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad reiterated the Centre's stand that it was a 'matter of gender justice, dignity and equality'.
July 30, 2019 -
Forceful, genteel
Jaipal had such fluency with words that erstwhile party-colleague and bench-mate Yashwant Sinha once quipped that he spoke his own language ~ Jaipalese ~ that could be understood only after consulting a dictionary or thesaurus.
July 30, 2019 -
Azam Khan apologises for sexist remarks against BJP MP Rama Devi in Parliament
Deputy Speaker Rama Devi, who had earlier said she will never forgive Khan, today said that his remark has 'hurt both women and men in India'.
July 29, 2019 -
Masood Azhar, Hafiz Saeed first in line to be declared terrorists once new anti-terror law comes into force
The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Unlawful Activities Prevention (Amendment) Bill with 284 votes in its favour.
July 27, 2019