New Delhi, Feb 09 (ANI): Proceedings of the Lok Sabha are underway during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi on Friday. (ANI Photo/Sansad TV) | Photo Credit: ANI The BJP has issued a whip to its MPs in the Lok Sabha as well as the Rajya Sabha, while the Congress has issued a … Read more
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session of Parliament, in New Delhi, on February 5, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The Finance Bill, 2024 will be brought up for consideration and passage in the Lok Sabha by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday. The Interim Union Budget … Read more
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh in the Rajya Sabha during the Special Session of the Parliament, in New Delhi on September 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on September 24 wrote to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar demanding urgent action over the incident of “political sloganeering” by a group of people … 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
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
The government has made it mandatory for OTT platforms to display an anti-tobacco health warning as a prominent static message at the bottom of the screen during the period of a tobacco product being displayed or used in a programme, the Rajya Sabha was told on July 25. The government notified the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Products … Read more
Total 877 foreign companies have ceased their ‘place of business’ in India between 2014 to November 2021. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday said that Ford and Harley Davidson have not closed their place of business in India. “Information about ‘ceasing of operations’ is not maintained by … Read more
Union Minister Kiren Rijiju addresses a press conference at his residence in New Delhi on March 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Election Commission of India (EC) has proposed to change the rules pertaining to the conduct of elections to facilitate the electronically-transmitted postal ballot system for overseas Indian voters and the matter is … Read more
A technical analysis carried out by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert-In) on the cyber-attack on AIIMS has revealed that the IT networks of the government-run hospital was compromised “by unknown threat actors due to improper network segmentation”, the minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. In a written reply … Read more
New Delhi: The US has emerged as India’s top destination for merchandise exports during April-December this fiscal at USD 59.7 billion, Parliament was informed on Friday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said the government has taken a series of measures to promote the country’s exports. The … Read more