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All Stories for Winter Session 2019
Sixth Schedule regions exempt from Citizenship (Amendment) Bill: Constitutional provision is aimed at protecting identity of tribal-dominated regions
Fp Staff • 5 years agoThe Citizenship Amendment Bill has made it clear that the new law would not be applicable to Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram and Sixth Schedule areas of Assam, Meghalaya, and Mizoram.
WATCH: Nirmala Sitharaman responding to surge in onion prices says 'not from family of onion eaters', says Centre taking steps to control hike
• 5 years agoSitharaman, who was replying to the debate on the first batch of supplementary demands for grants for 2019-2020 also said that onion price surge was due to factors such as a reduction in the area of cultivation and production.
Venkaiah Naidu pulls up MPs for low attendance in parliamentary panels in RS, urges leaders to ensure 'quantitative, qualitative functioning'
• 5 years agoVenkaiah Naidu pulled up MPs of both Houses for their low attendance in parliamentary standing committees' meetings and urged the leaders of all political parties to ensure'quantitative and qualitative functioning' of these panels
Parliament Updates: Uproar in Rajya Sabha after Vijay Goel slams AAP govt for 'unfulfilled' poll promise of regularising Delhi's unauthorised colonies
Fp Staff • 5 years agoParliament LIVE Updates: The Centre on Wednesday told the Lok Sabha during a session of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament that the personal data of at least 21 out of approximately 121 Whatsapp users may have been accessed by the attacker involved with the Pegasus software row in November.
Union Cabinet okays Citizenship Amendment Bill: All you need to know about the draft law mired in controversy
Fp Staff • 5 years agoIf passed in the parliament, the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, will imply that Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who arrived in India on or before 31 December, 2014 will not be deported or imprisoned for being in India even if found to be living without valid documents.
Rajya Sabha passes Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, raises cap on chit amount threefold and hikes commission for foremen
• 5 years agoParliament on Thursday passed a bill which provides for raising the monetary limits for chit funds to three-fold and hiking commission for a foreman
Industrial relations code bill introduced in Lok Sabha: Bill to provide fixed-term employment, amalgamate three labour laws
• 5 years agoIndustrial Relations Code, 2019 was introduced by Labour minister who said that there was nothing in it which was against the interests of labourers
No discussion on ‘expunged’ remarks, says Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla after Congress raises topic of Pragya Singh Thakur's Nathuram Godse remark
• 5 years ago'What she said has been expunged from the record. How can there be a debate if it is not on record?' said Om Birla
Rajya Sabha marshals shed military-style uniform, back in Indian attire without 'pagri' after facing criticism over outfit
• 5 years agoThe marshals were seen in military-style outfits with caps when the Rajya Sabha's landmark 250th session opened last Monday, but on this Monday they had continued to don Indian attire with a pointed pagri or headgear
Winter Session of Parliament: LS, RS adjourn early amid protests by Opposition over Maharashtra govt formation
Fp Staff • 5 years agoCongress members jostled with the marshals in the Lok Sabha when they stormed the Well of the House carrying placards, leading to adjournment of Parliament proceedings.