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PM Modi likely to reply to President's address in Lok Sabha on Feb 10

PM Modi had delivered his reply to the President's address in the Rajya Sabha on Monday where he appealed to the protesting farmers to withdraw their over two-month-long stir

Lok Sabha logjam ends after Rajnath Singh appeals to not break tradition

Lok Sabha resumed normal functioning Monday after a week-long disruption over the three central farm laws

3rd phase of vaccination for people above 50 likely to begin in March: Govt

The third phase of vaccination against the coronavirus is likely to commence in March and will cover 27 crore people aged 50 years and above and those with co-morbidities

Farm laws: Lok Sabha proceedings a washout amid opposition protests

Lok Sabha proceedings were a virtual washout on Friday

India has received $358.30 bn in FDI during 2014-20: Govt tells Lok Sabha

Replying to a separate question on gold imports, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Hardeep Singh Puri said India has imported 306.55 tonnes of the yellow metal during April-December 2020

Govt has no plan to close down BSNL, MTNL: Telecom Ministry tells Lok Sabha

The government had announced a revival package of around Rs 69,000 crore in October 2019

Farm laws: LS adjourned for 20 mins as opposition disrupts Question Hour

The proceedings of Lok Sabha were adjourned for about 20 minutes till 4.30 PM on Wednesday

After two days of peace, Opposition protests return, rock both Houses

The House was first adjourned for about 40 minutes till 10:30 am, then till 11:30 am and then to 12:30 pm

Citizenship (Amendment) Act rules under preparation: MHA tells Lok Sabha

The rules under the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which was enacted over a year ago, are under preparation, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019 was notified on December 12, 2019 and it came into force with effect from January 10, 2020. "The Rules under The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 are under preparation. The Committees on Subordinate Legislation, Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have granted extension of time up to April 9 and July 9, respectively to frame these rules under the CAA," he said in a written reply. The CAA, which facilitates granting of Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim minorities -- Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian -- of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, was passed by Parliament in December 2019, triggering protests in different parts of the country. The President had given his assent to the legislation on December 12, 2019. Und

Farmers aggressively resorted to rioting during their protests: Govt

The government on Tuesday informed Lok Sabha that 39 cases were registered between September and December 2020 against farmers protesting against the agri laws at Delhi's borders

Budget session: 27 bills passed earlier to be presented in Lok Sabha today

27 bills passed by the Houses of Parliament during the fourth session of the 17th Lok Sabha will be tabled in the Lower House

Full text of the Economic Survey 2020-21: Download volume-I and II here

The Economic Survey 2020-21, authored by CEO K Subramanian, has pegged India's GDP contraction in FY21 at 7.7 per cent, and real GDP growth in FY22 at 11%. Hefre are both volumes of the document

Only 7% of MPs in current Lok Sabha claim to be farmers, majority from BJP

This is in sharp contrast to the 15th Lok Sabha between 2009 and 2014 when 27% of the MPs claimed that they were farmers

Parliaments should respect sovereign mandate of other parliaments: Om Birla

All parliaments should respect the sovereign mandate of other parliaments, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla said on Wednesday.

In new Parliament building, Lok Sabha will be thrice as big than now

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will perform the Bhoomi Pujan ceremony of the new Parliament House building on Thursday

Increased Parliament efficiency, but far fewer bills sent to Panels

The 16th Lok Sabha passed 15% more Bills than the previous one, he said, adding that in these five years, 60% of the passed Bills have been debated for at least 2 hours

BJP to reach 1 cr households across Bengal to highlight Mamata 'failures'

The BJP will launch a campaign to highlight alleged misdeeds of the Trinamool Congress dispensation in response to the Mamata Banerjee government's 'Duare Sarkar' programme

Lok Sabha poll performance in Bengal won't help BJP win elections: TMC

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday said that if the BJP is thinking of winning the Assembly polls in West Bengal next year, the saffron party is day-dreaming.

New Parliament building to be ready by Oct 2022: Lok Sabha Secretariat

In the new building, the Lok Sabha chamber will have a seating capacity for 888 members, while Rajya Sabha will have 384 seats for the upper house members

EC sets up panel to revise expenditure limit for LS, assembly polls

EC has set up a panel to examine the issue of revising the expenditure limit for candidates for LS and assembly polls in view of the increase in number of electors and rise in Cost Inflation Index