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Stepping up the protest against the suspension of the 12 Rajya Sabha MPs, all Opposition MPs have decided to boycott the session on Wednesday and join their suspended colleagues at the Gandhi statue outside Parliament. Opposition MPs from the Lok Sabha too will join them on another day.Two weeks ...

With 17 more cases of Omircon being reported across India — nine persons inJaipur, seven in Pune and a 37-year-old fully vaccinated man who arrived in Delhi from Tanzania — the total number of cases has risen to 21. Most of those who tested positive for the new variant ...

The government on Thursday took the first step towards doing away with the contentious retrospective tax law of 2012, which was used to raise large tax demands on foreign investors like Vodafone and Cairn Energy, and blamed for vitiating India’s investment climate — less than a month after Cairn ...

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana is scheduled to hear on August 5 a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over ...

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is “still raging” in the country and is far from over, Lav Aggarwal joint secretary, Health Ministry, told a press conference on Tuesday. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala have registered a rise in the ...

A fire lit by government: NC. Ambedkar, Syama Prasad Mookerjee opposed it: Minister The discussion on the supplementary demands for grants for Jammu and Kashmir and Puducherry in the Lok Sabha became the site of an intense debate between the ruling BJP and the Opposition on the events in ...

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die on Wednesday, clocking a productivity rate of over 100%, even though it was one of the shortest monsoon sessions with only 10 sittings held.Parliament proceedings, Sept. 23 updatesOn Wednesday, the House passed eight Bills in less than four hours as the Opposition ...

"People there do not have access to 4G facility, when this is available to everyone else across the country," says NC leader Farooq Abdullah National Conference leader Dr. Farooq Abdullah said in the Lok Sabha on Saturday that the people of Jammu and Kashmir should have the same rights ...

Thirty-seven sewage plants have been sanctioned in Gujarat, three in Jammu and Kashmir, two in Manipur and one in Sikkim The Centre has sanctioned 43 sewage treatment plants in three States and a Union Territory since 2018, the Jal Shakti Ministry said on September 14.Also read: Parliament proceedings, Sept. ...