Budget 2021 News

'Budget not for damads of country, but for poor,' says Sitharaman in Rajya Sabha, accuses Oppn of creating false narrative

Hitting out at the Congress for taking the credit for MGNREGA, the Union finance minister said, "You may have given birth to the scheme but you left it in a mess."

Parliament Updates: Budget neither farmer-friendly nor growth-oriented, says Congress MP; LS adjourned till 4 pm

Parliament Updates: Congress' Anto Antony said that the budget had nothing for migrant workers, and made no provisions to write off farmers' loans

Parliament Updates: BSP's Shyam Singh Yadav says farm laws should be repealed; LS session extended till 12.30 am

Parliament Updates: If the prime minister has assured that MSP was, is and will remain, then why isn't MSP being brought as a legal provision, Yadav questioned

Parliament Updates: Opposition targets Centre over farm laws; legislations give freedom to farmers, says MoS Agriculture

Parliament Updates: MoS Agriculture Kailash Choudhary also claimed that the Modi government has significantly hiked the MSP on all crops and increased the agriculture budget

Budget Session: In RS, Modi asks farmers to end stir; LS logjam ends after Rajnath urges Opposition to 'not let traditions break down'

The Rajya Sabha passed The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that seeks to replace the ordinance to merge the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) cadre of civil services officer with the Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram Union Territory cadre

Parliament Updates: Lok Sabha adjourned after extended discussion on Motion of Thanks on President's address

Parliament LIVE Updates: Meanwhile, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over Modi's use of the term 'andolan jeevi' in his Parliament speech on Monday

RS concludes debate on Motion of Thanks to President's speech; LS sees another day of near washout

Session in the Rajya Sabha could only progress after the Opposition parties in the Upper House agreed to the government's proposition of raising farmers' issues as part of debate on Motion of Thanks. The Lok Sabha, however, has seen no headway

Parliament Updates: Day 5 of Budget Session in LS near washout; House adjourned due to protest on farm laws

Parliament LIVE Updates: Lok Sabha has been adjourned for the day amid Opposition's protests and sloganeering. No legislative business was conducted today, but the Question Hour could be held for about 15 minutes. Some members also managed to lay papers on the table of the House amid din

Parliament Updates: Oppn corners Centre over farmers' protests, says govt should stop 'monologues'

Attacking the govt, Opposition parties said trenches have been dug, barbed wires put up and spikes installed at the sites of farmers' protests, whereas bridges should have been built to win over them

Budget Session Day 3: RS resolves deadlock to debate farm issues; Lok Sabha fails to function over repeated Opposition protests

Lok Sabha proceedings were adjourned four times on Wednesday as the protesting opposition members demanded a separate discussion on the farm laws issue