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Parliament passes bill to extend ED director tenure up to 5 yrs

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

Over 800,000 Indians gave up their citizenship in last 7 years: Govt

According to the data tabled in the Lower House, most Indians renounced their Indian citizenship in 2019

Parliament passes bill to extend tenure of CBI director to maximum 5 years

Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said the government is working to check corruption and to ensure and enhance transparency

Opposition not allowed to raise issues in Parliament: Rahul Gandhi

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

Privatisation of public sector units to drive divestment receipts: MoS

Finance ministry says scope for minority stake sale has declined

Armed forces have shortage of 9,362 officers, Rajya Sabha informed

The Army has a shortage of 7,476 officers and 97,177 soldiers including Junior Commissioned Officers, Rajya Sabha was told

Oil producers artificially adjusting supply leading to price rise: Govt

India last month agreed to release five million barrels of crude oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserves

Lok Sabha passes Bill to correct certain 'clerical error' in NDPS Act

The NDPS (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed by a voice vote and some amendments moved by opposition members were rejected

Ensuring dam safety

Extreme weather events have increased risks

Plans afoot to have 4 cut-off dates for new voters to enrol, par panel told

The Election Commission of India (ECI) had been pushing for multiple cut-off dates to allow more eligible people to register as voters

Country of origin: 200 govt notices issued to e-tailers over norm breach

This has been done to facilitate the consumer in taking an informed and conscious decision based on the country of origin of the product

Govt not aware of any unlawful interception of any message: MoS Comms

The Communications Ministry on Friday informed Parliament that the government was not aware of any unlawful interception of any message of any individual

Govt says has taken several steps to curb harmful content on social media

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.

PM Modi meets top ministers , discusses strategy for winter session

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 ...

Railways to get Rs 20,000 crore in supplementary demand for grants

After Parliament approves the supplementary demand, the railways' budget will go up by Rs 40,575.93 crore

Bill to enhance status of 6 institutes of pharma edu, research gets Parl OK

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

LS passes bills to extend CBI, ED directors' tenures up to max 5 years

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.

Home Minister misled Parliament on Nagaland, claims Adhir Chowdhury

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

Rajya Sabha passes Bill for regulation of practice and process of surrogacy

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

Govt directed blocking of 9,849 URLs in 2020: MoS IT informs Parliament

The ministry follows due process in all such directions, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said