Opposition parties continued their protest in the two Houses of Parliament over their demands relating to the debate on the Manipur situation with both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha seeing adjournments on Monday. Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha were adjourned till 12 noon and then till 2 pm. In […]
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Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha see adjournments on first day of monsoon session
Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm and Rajya Sabha till 12 noon on Thursday morning on the first day of monsoon session of Parliament following obituary references. In Lok Sabha AAP leader Sushil Kumar Rinku took oath as a member of the House. Rinku, who was elected from Jalandhar […]
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Rajya Sabha session from July 20 to August 11
The Rajya Sabha will meet from July 20 to August 11 for the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament, the Upper House secretariat said. “The President has summoned the Rajya Sabha to meet on Thursday, 20th July 2023 and to conclude on Friday, 11th August 2023,” it said. Earlier on Saturday, Parliamentary Affairs […]
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Rajya Sabha passes and returns Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation (No 2) Bill, Finance Bill
The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed and returned ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Appropriation (No 2) Bill, 2023’ and ‘The Appropriation Bill, 2023’ or Finance Bill 2023 amid the din without any discussion. These bills were passed amid a ruckus created by the Opposition parties seeking a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe […]
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Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 PM amid ruckus
Minutes after the proceedings started in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Monday, both the houses were adjourned till 2 pm after Opposition MPs raised slogans demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) inquiry into the Adani stocks issue. Today is the sixth day of the second leg of the […]
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Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 pm amid ruckus on Rahul Gandhi’s democracy remarks
The stand-off between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress continued for the third consecutive day leading to the adjournment of proceedings of the Rajya Sabha till 2.00 pm over the government’s demand for an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his ‘Democracy in India’ remarks in […]
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Amid sloganeering by Opposition MPs on Adani stocks issue, Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 PM today
Opposition on Tuesday raised the Adani issue in Parliament and demanded the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Hindenburg-Adani report. Rajya Sabha was adjourned till 2 PM today amid sloganeering by Opposition MPs on the Adani stocks issue. Also, Union minister Piyush Goyal raised in the House the issue […]
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50 govt websites hacked, 8 data breaches in 2022-23 alone: IT Minister informs Rajya Sabha
Union Minister for Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology on Friday informed Rajya Sabha in a written reply that 50 government websites have been hacked in the year 2022-23. Union Minister informed the upper House on the question of the details of instances of hacking of Central Ministries/Departments and State Government […]
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S Jaishankar to move Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill in Rajya Sabha today
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will move the Anti-Maritime Piracy Bill, 2019 in Rajya Sabha today. Earlier on Monday, the Lok Sabha passed the bill that seeks to provide an effective legal instrument to combat piracy not only in territorial waters and the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) but also on […]
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Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar to host dinner for Rajya Sabha floor leaders today
Vice-President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar will hold a dinner meeting for all Rajya Sabha floor leaders at his official residence in the national capital today. Sources in the VP Secretariat told that an invitation had been sent to all Rajya Sabha floor leaders to attend the “courtesy dinner […]
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Mallikarjun Kharge resigns as LoP Rajya Sabha in line with party’s One Leader One Post’ resolution
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday tendered his resignation as the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Rajya Sabha as he has filed nomination papers to contest the post of president of his party. Kharge resigned in line with the party’s Udaipur declaration of ‘One Leader One Post’ of the […]
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3 more MPs suspended from Rajya Sabha for this week
Three more MPS, two from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and one Independent, were on Thursday suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remainder of this week on charges of disrupting the proceedings of the House. Those suspended from the House are AAP MP Sushil Kumar Gupta and Sandeep Kumar Pathak […]
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Philanthropist Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade to take oath as Rajya Sabha member today
Renowned philanthropist and administrator of the Dharmasthala temple in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, Dharmasthala Veerendra Heggade, is likely to take oath as Rajya Sabha MP later in the day on Thursday. Heggade was nominated to the Rajya Sabha earlier this month. His nomination came alongside that of three other eminent personalities […]
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PT Usha to take oath as Rajya Sabha MP today
Renowned former athlete PT Usha will take oath as Rajya Sabha MP on Tuesday. PT Usha (from Kerala) and legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja (from Tamil Nadu) could not be present in the Rajya Sabha on Monday for oath-taking due to some reasons. Born in a small village in Kozhikode district in Kerala, PT Usha is one of India’s most […]
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Harbhajan Singh, Misa Bharti, Rajeev Shukla among 28 MPs take oath in Rajya Sabha
Cricketer-turned-politician Harbhajan Singh, Misa Bharti, daughter of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, and BCCI vice-president Rajeev Shukla on Monday took oath alongwith nearly 25 other leaders as Rajya Sabha members. Others included A Rao Meena, Vijay Sai Reddy, Kheeru Mahto, Shambhala Saran Patel, Ranjeet Ranjan, Maharashtra Majhi, Aditya Prasad, Praful […]