Legislations

Firstpost special report: Why India's juvenile justice system is fractured

Since 1986, successive legislations dealing with juvenile justice have dealt with two broad categories of children.

GST bill: Centre to advance winter session of Parliament to pass bill

Terming GST reform as a "game changer", Cabinet Secretary P K Sinha today said the government is working "overtime" to implement the indirect tax regime from April 1 next year.

Barack Obama vows to veto new Iran sanctions

Barack Obama has strongly opposed fresh sanctions against Iran and threatened to veto any legislation in this regard by the Congress, saying such a move could lead to collapse of nuclear negotiations with Tehran.

Chidambaram regrets UPA not being able to get reform legislations passed

"...we are not able to pass legislation... That is the only regret that I have in the 10th year (of UPA government). We must work together to achieve strong growth," he said in the memorial meeting in the honour of R P Goenka in New Delhi.

UPA's report card is a non report card: BJP

BJP termed the UPA's report card as a "non-report card" that hid all the scams and revealed only what was convenient to the ruling dispensation.