Tag: Rajya Sabha
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HIV Bill passed in Rajya Sabha
The HIV Bill, 2014, that would provide legal backing to people suffering from HIV-AIDS and also to those who are working to curb HIV was passed by voice vote in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Bill, 2014, would ensure equal rights to people...
March 21, 2017 -
Manish Gupta takes oath as RS member
Manish Gupta of the Trinamul Congress on Monday took oath as a member of the Rajya Sabha. Gupta, who was earlier this month elected to the Upper House following the resignation of actor Mithun Chakraborty, took oath in Bengali. The House also mourned the death of its former member Pyarimohan Mohapatra on March 19 at...
March 20, 2017 -
Uproar in Rajya Sabha as Digvijay rakes up Goa issue
Facing flak for his handling of the Goa polls, AICC General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Friday said his proposal for a pre-poll alliance with Goa Forward was "sabotaged" by his own party leaders. He said had the alliance with Goa Forward gone through, the Congress would have got majority in the state and that it...
March 17, 2017 -
Rajya Sabha gives warm welcome to Sushma Swaraj
Members in the Rajya Sabha, cutting across party lines, extended a warm welcome to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday, when she came to the House after a long absence due to health reasons. As soon as she was spotted stepping into her front row seat during the Zero Hour, members began thumping their...
March 16, 2017 -
Delhi airport to expand passenger capacity to 109.3 million
The Centre on Wednesday said it plans to expand passenger handling capacity at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) here to 109.3 million passenger per annum (mppa) in a phased manner. "The updated master plan envisages expansion of passenger handling capacity at the IGIA from existing 62 mppa to 109.3 mppa in a phased manner...
March 15, 2017 -
Rajya Sabha witnesses multiple adjournments over Goa, Manipur
The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed multiple adjournments amid chaos over Congress' allegations that BJP murdered the democracy by not honouring the people's mandate in Goa and Manipur assembly elections. The upper house was first adjourned soon after it assembled at 11 am as Congress member Anand Sharma raised the issue saying the BJP was "violating...
March 15, 2017 -
Opposition caught off guard; Enemy Property Bill passed in RS
The Rajya Sabha on Friday passed the controversial Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016, after walk-outs by a few Opposition members who wanted the Bill taken up next week because of thin attendance on their benches on Friday afternoon. The Deputy Chairman, PJ Kurien, allowed the Bill to be taken up as the private...
March 10, 2017 -
Opposition caught off guard; Enemy Property Bill passed in RS
The Rajya Sabha on Friday passed the controversial Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill, 2016, after walk-outs by a few Opposition members who wanted the Bill taken up next week because of thin attendance on their benches on Friday afternoon. The Deputy Chairman, PJ Kurien, allowed the Bill to be taken up as the private...
March 10, 2017 -
Rajya Sabha adjourned for the day following death of sitting member
Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day on Thursday without transacting any business as a mark of respect to the memory of its sitting member Haji Abdul Salam who died recently. When the House met for the second part of the Budget session, Chairman Hamid Ansari mentioned the passing away of Salam on February 28...
March 9, 2017 -
Snub for Speaker?
The specifics will be adjudicated upon subsequently, what has long-term implications is the Supreme Court’s accepting a “case” that involves its ruling on a decision of the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Perhaps not entirely unprecedented, yet certainly unexpected and it brings into judicial focus the simmering stand-off between the government-controlled House of the People,...
February 14, 2017 -
Vicious whirlpool
The polity stands ruptured: the spill-over of the 2014 elections has proved no less divisive than the Emergency. The outbursts in Parliament last Wednesday underscore the “intolerance” the President has been condemning. The apex legislature has been reduced to slanging-matches on raincoats and dogs, and the fate of the budget session is now threatened. To...
February 12, 2017 -
Would pass women quota bill when we have majority in RS: Naidu
The NDA government would pass the long-pending legislation providing 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures "once we get majority in Rajya Sabha", Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu announced on Friday.. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has this in mind and the day is not is far when Parliament will...
February 10, 2017 -
Would pass women quota bill when we have majority in RS: Naidu
The NDA government would pass the long-pending legislation providing 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures "once we get majority in Rajya Sabha", Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu announced on Friday.. "Prime Minister Narendra Modi has this in mind and the day is not is far when Parliament will...
February 10, 2017 -
Note ban “most terrible” decision of Modi Govt, says Chidambaram
Opposition in Rajya Sabha on Thursday tore into the government for presenting a "disappointing" budget, with Congress leader P Chidambaram terming note ban as the "most terrible" decision and alleging that graft and black money have continued to thrive and large sections adversely affected. The former Finance Minister also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over...
February 9, 2017 -
Note ban “most terrible” decision of Modi Govt, says Chidambaram
Opposition in Rajya Sabha on Thursday tore into the government for presenting a "disappointing" budget, with Congress leader P Chidambaram terming note ban as the "most terrible" decision and alleging that graft and black money have continued to thrive and large sections adversely affected. The former Finance Minister also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi over...
February 9, 2017 -
Opposition seeks Modi’s apology, disrupts RS
Congress and other opposition parties on Thursday forced adjournment of Rajya Sabha twice demanding an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remarks "insulting" his precedessors. Besides Congress members, their AIADMK counterparts too were in the well of the House demanding that Tamil Nadu Governor C Vidyasagar Rao should discharge his Constitutional duty by swearing...
February 9, 2017 -
Congress walks out of RS as Modi mocks Manmohan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attacked the Congress for walking out of Rajya Sabha after he mocked former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said that the party should have the courage to listen to others. “If they (Congress MPs) breach decorum, they should have courage to listen to the response as well,” reacted Modi...
February 8, 2017