Prior to the bill being taken up, most of the opposition members had walked out of the House to protest the suspension of their 12 members
According to the data tabled in the Lower House, most Indians renounced their Indian citizenship in 2019
Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said the government is working to check corruption and to ensure and enhance transparency
The Congress leader further called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Rajya Sabha Chairman "just implementors" of a power that wants to steal farmers' income
Finance ministry says scope for minority stake sale has declined
The Army has a shortage of 7,476 officers and 97,177 soldiers including Junior Commissioned Officers, Rajya Sabha was told
India last month agreed to release five million barrels of crude oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserves
The NDPS (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed by a voice vote and some amendments moved by opposition members were rejected
Extreme weather events have increased risks
The Election Commission of India (ECI) had been pushing for multiple cut-off dates to allow more eligible people to register as voters
This has been done to facilitate the consumer in taking an informed and conscious decision based on the country of origin of the product
The Communications Ministry on Friday informed Parliament that the government was not aware of any unlawful interception of any message of any individual
The government has taken several steps to address the challenges of user harm and hateful information available on social media platforms, Parliament was informed on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday held a meeting with senior ministers in Parliament to discuss strategy for the ongoing winter session.Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur, Union Minister for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal were among the attendees.The winter session of Parliament began on November 29 and is scheduled to conclude on December 23. Meanwhile, both Houses of Parliament have witnessed repeated adjournments over the Opposition's demand for revocation of suspension of 12 MPs from the Rajya Sabha.The MPs were suspended over alleged unruly conduct towards the end of the monsoon session in August.The suspended members comprise six from the Congress, two each from Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena, and one each from CPI and CPM: Phulo Devi Netam, Chhaya Verma, Ripun Bora, Rajamani Patel, Syed Nasir Hussain and Akhilesh Prasad Singh of Congress; Dola Sen, Shanta Chhetri of ...
After Parliament approves the supplementary demand, the railways' budget will go up by Rs 40,575.93 crore
The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021, passed by the Lok Sabha on December 6, was cleared in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday with a voice vote
Two bills were passed by Lok Sabha on Thursday to extend the tenures of directors of the CBI and the ED up to a maximum of five years from the present two years.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday claimed that Amit Shah had misled the Lok Sabha when he said that security forces had opened fire on civilians in Nagaland after they tried to flee
Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to regulate and supervise assisted reproductive technology clinics. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2021, which was passed by Lok Sabha on December 1, got the approval of Rajya Sabha with a voice vote. The Upper House also passed The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020 with amendments. The proposed bill was earlier passed by Lok Sabha, but Rajya Sabha had referred it to a Select Committee. It will now go back to Lok Sabha for approval. Replying to a discussion on both the bills taken up together, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that most of the recommendations of the Select Committee have been incorporated in the surrogacy bill. Both the bills seek to curb unethical practices related to issues like sex selection and exploitation of surrogate mothers. The provisions include both monetary penalty as well as jail terms for violations. The minister said these bills are aimed to give respect to women facing problems in
The ministry follows due process in all such directions, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said