New Delhi, Dec 20 (UNI) Parliament on Wednesday passed the Central GST (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023 with Rajya Sabha clearing the law seeking to raise the age limit of the President and Members of GST appellate tribunals (GSTAT). The Lok Sabha had earlier approved the bill. The bill seeks to raise the upper age limit…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (UNI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured her of a joint meeting of Union and State government officials to discuss the issue of pending central funds for the state. Banerjee, who called on the Prime Minister along with nine Trinamool Congress MPs…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (UNI) Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed three criminal law bills seeking to comprehensively change the criminal justice system and replacing age-old legislations, including two introduced in the British era. The Bharatiya Nyaya (Second) Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha (Second) Sanhita 2023 and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill 2023 were passed by the House…
New Delhi, Dec 19 (UNI) A day after 45 MPs were suspended from the House for their alleged misconduct, Rajya Sabha on Tuesday again saw massive disruptions with opposition MPs refusing to budge from their demand seeking Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement on the Parliament security breach. The continued protests and sloganeering led to adjournments…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (UNI) Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday suspended as many as 45 opposition members including senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh from the House for the remainder of the Winter session for their ‘ignoble and grossly disorderly conduct’. Dhankhar asked the suspended members to leave the precinct of…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (UNI) Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued a fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it on December 21 in connection with an alleged Delhi excise policy case, AAP sources said. Kejriwal has been asked to appear before the probe agency…
New Delhi, Dec 18 (UNI) As the opposition parties continued their protest over last week’s Parliament security breach, the Lok Sabha on Monday suspended 33 MPs including Congress leader of the House Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, for the remaining part of the winter session for their “unruly behaviour”. Among the 33 MPs, three have been suspended…
New Delhi, Dec 16 (UNI) Former Congress President and MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday took a swipe at BJP-led Central government over its policies regarding the unemployment issue. “There was Parliament security breach but the reasons behind is unemployment and inflation,” he said. Responding to media queries about security breach in Parliament, Rahul alleged, “The…
New Delhi, Dec 15 (UNI) Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday told the Rajya Sabha that Final Location Survey (FLS) for construction of a new line between Banarhat (India)-Samtse (Bhutan) (23.15 km) has been sanctioned in 2023-24. “Consultations with the State government are held during the survey work,” he said. In a written reply to…
New Delhi, Dec 15, (UNI) The Supreme Court on Friday adjourned till January 3 next yearTrinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra’s plea challenging her expulsion as a Lok Sabha member over alleged misconduct in the cash-for-query case. The matter was listed before a bench but since Friday was the last working day of the Supreme Court…
