by Prasad Nakashe Data protection has been the focal point of discussion, post the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union 2018. The Personal Data Protection Bill was introduced for the first time in 2019 to address the need for a strong data privacy legislation in India and went through … Read more
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar during the monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: ANI/Sansad TV Lok Sabha functioned for only 43% of its scheduled time and Rajya Sabha 55% in the just-concluded Monsoon session but legislative activity remained high with 23 bills being passed, … Read more
Home Minister Amit Shah speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on August 11 introduced three Bills in the Lok Sabha to replace the Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence … Read more
Union Ministers and BJP MPs stand up to vote against the no-confidence motion after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in the Lok Sabha on August 10, 2023. Photo: Sansad TV via ANI Peace will be restored in Manipur, PM Modi assures Lok Sabha Government wins the no-confidence motion; Modi asks the Opposition to try again … Read more
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka have outpaced the all India average in GST collections in July, keeping up with their impressive performance in the first four months of this fiscal year. Telangana, on the other hand, has slipped into single digit year-on-year growth rate in July after clocking a double digit growth in April, May and … Read more
The Central government’s debt profile remains safe and the share of its external debt in the country’s gross domestic product dropped to 2.7% in FY23 from 3.3% in FY14 at the current exchange rate, the finance ministry told the Lok Sabha on Monday. In a written reply, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said: … Read more
The Centre has devolved over Rs 3.09 lakh crore to states till July of the Rs 10.21 lakh crore budgeted to be transferred in the current fiscal, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said on Tuesday. “Out of Rs 10.21 lakh crore estimated to be transferred to states for the FY 2023-24, Rs 3,09,521.22 … Read more
Home Minister Amit Shah tells Lok Sabha that the government is ready for discussion Union Home Minister Amit Shah told the Lok Sabha on July 24 that the government was ready for a discussion on Manipur on the floor of the House as the country needs to know the truth about the sensitive situation in the State. Union … Read more
The finance ministry on Monday said there is no proposal to extend the deadline for the exchange of Rs 2,000 notes beyond September 30, 2023. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary replied in negative to a question about whether there is a proposal to extend the … Read more
The government on Tuesday said it is too early to predict any damage to the wheat crop due to heat stress in February. In a written reply to Lok Sabha, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said, “In the month of February 2023, though the maximum temperature was hovering around 32-33°C in most of the … Read more