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  • Lok Sabha passes bill to amend competition law amid ruckus in House March 29, 2023 04:46 PM IST

    Lok Sabha passes bill to amend competition law amid ruckus in House

    The bill provides for the Competition Commission of India to impose penalties on entities based on their global turnover instead of the current practice of considering only relevant market turnover.

  • No proposal under consideration to make Sanskrit official language: Govt to Lok Sabha March 28, 2023 03:51 PM IST

    No proposal under consideration to make Sanskrit official language: Govt to Lok Sabha

    The minister's written answer came in response to a question posed by BJP member Subrat Pathak, who asked whether the government proposes to make Sanskrit the communication and official language in addition to Hindi.

  • Will abide by details in your letter without prejudice to my rights: Rahul Gandhi writes to Lok Sabha Secretariat over bungalow vacation March 28, 2023 12:45 PM IST

    Will abide by details in your letter without prejudice to my rights: Rahul Gandhi writes to Lok Sabha Secretariat over bungalow vacation

    Rahul Gandhi was on Monday served a notice to vacate the government bungalow allotted to him by April 22 following his disqualification as a member of the Lok Sabha after his conviction in a defamation case last week, official sources said.

  • Disqualified from Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi now asked to vacate govt-allotted bungalow March 27, 2023 07:51 PM IST

    Disqualified from Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi now asked to vacate govt-allotted bungalow

    Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on March 24, a day after he was convicted by a magisterial court in Gujarat in a defamation case.

  • Congress leaders across India protest disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, slam BJP govt March 26, 2023 02:32 PM IST

    Congress leaders across India protest disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, slam BJP govt

    In the national capital, the Congress put up a stage outside Mahatma Gandhi's memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission was denied.

  • Rahul Gandhi's disqualification an 'own goal' by BJP, says Shashi Tharoor March 25, 2023 03:02 PM IST

    Rahul Gandhi's disqualification an 'own goal' by BJP, says Shashi Tharoor

    Condemning the act of the Lok Sabha Secretariat, Tharoor told PTI that this issue, in the end, was going to be beneficial for the opposition parties and to Gandhi.

  • Rahul Gandhi could have apologised: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma March 25, 2023 02:16 PM IST

    Rahul Gandhi could have apologised: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

    A slip of tongue sometimes happens and ''we have experienced it too, but we issue a statement apologising, saying it was unintentional. Gandhi could have done the same and the matter would have ended there'', Sarma said.

  • Rahul Gandhi disqualified: Congress protests in Pune, holds signature campaign March 25, 2023 01:58 PM IST

    Rahul Gandhi disqualified: Congress protests in Pune, holds signature campaign

    Pune city Congress chief Arvind Shinde said the move to disqualify Gandhi was taken at the behest of the Union government since the latter was becoming the voice of the people.

  • Rahul Gandhi disqualified: Opposition comes in support of RG after disqualification as Lok Sabha MP March 24, 2023 07:41 PM IST

    Rahul Gandhi disqualified: Opposition comes in support of RG after disqualification as Lok Sabha MP

    Rahul Gandhi's Congress colleagues, and leaders from parties like TMC, Samajwadi Party, and AAP have come in support of the Congress leader after he was disqualified as Lok Sabha Member of Parliament on Friday. The disqualification comes a day after a Surat district court convicted him of a four-year-old defamation case in which he had made a remark against PM Narendra Modi's surname. Watch to know more!

  • I'm fighting for voice of India, ready to pay any price: Rahul Gandhi March 24, 2023 05:55 PM IST

    I'm fighting for voice of India, ready to pay any price: Rahul Gandhi

    Announcing his disqualification, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification said it was effective from March 23, the day of his conviction.

  • Opposition holds protest march alleging 'democracy in danger', 30 MPs detained March 24, 2023 03:00 PM IST

    Opposition holds protest march alleging 'democracy in danger', 30 MPs detained

    Prominent leaders, including K C Venugopal, Adhir Chowdhury, K Suresh, Manickam Tagore, Imran Pratapgarhi and Mohammed Javed, were stopped by the police and detained at Vijay Chowk here for violating prohibitory orders.

  • Lok Sabha approves setting up of GST Appellate Tribunal March 24, 2023 01:08 PM IST

    Lok Sabha approves setting up of GST Appellate Tribunal

    Currently, taxpayers are filing writ petitions before high courts in the absence of the appellate tribunal.

  • Lok Sabha passes finance bill 2023 amid din. Here are the highlights March 24, 2023 03:02 PM IST

    Lok Sabha passes finance bill 2023 amid din. Here are the highlights

    As per amendments to the Finance Bill, STT on the sale of options has been hiked to Rs 2,100 on a turnover of Rs 1 crore against an earlier levy of Rs 1,700, which amounts to a 23.5 percent hike

  • Lok Sabha passes Rs 45 lakh crore Budget 2023-24 without debate March 23, 2023 07:35 PM IST

    Lok Sabha passes Rs 45 lakh crore Budget 2023-24 without debate

    Amid din and continuous uproar by the Opposition demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Adani issue, Speaker Om Birla applied guillotine and put Demands for Grants of all ministries for voting.

  • Lok Sabha passes budget for Union Territory of J&K amid ruckus over JPC demand March 21, 2023 03:48 PM IST

    Lok Sabha passes budget for Union Territory of J&K amid ruckus over JPC demand

    As soon as the House met again at 2 pm after an adjournment, Rajindra Agrawal, who was chairing the proceedings, asked BJP's Jugal Kishore Sharma to initiate the discussion on the budget for the Union Territory, which is under central rule at present.

  • Lok Sabha passes Appropriation Bill 2023 sans discussion March 21, 2023 02:55 PM IST

    Lok Sabha passes Appropriation Bill 2023 sans discussion

    The functioning of both the houses of parliament in the second half of the budget session has been repeatedly disrupted by protests both by the Treasury and opposition benches.

  • BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena will jointly contest 288 seats, no decision on seat-sharing yet: Bawankule March 18, 2023 10:36 PM IST

    BJP and Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena will jointly contest 288 seats, no decision on seat-sharing yet: Bawankule

    The Bharatiya Janta Party and the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will contest all 288 Assembly and 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra in alliance with other NDA constituents.

  • Lok Sabha adjourned for day due to protests over Rahul Gandhi's remarks in UK March 17, 2023 03:51 PM IST

    Lok Sabha adjourned for day due to protests over Rahul Gandhi's remarks in UK

    This was for the fifth consecutive day that the House did not function ever since the second half of the budget session began on March 13.

  • Lok Sabha adjourned for day amid sloganeering over Rahul Gandhi's 'democracy-under-attack' remarks March 17, 2023 11:56 AM IST

    Lok Sabha adjourned for day amid sloganeering over Rahul Gandhi's 'democracy-under-attack' remarks

    This was for the fifth consecutive day that the House did not function ever since the second part of the budget session began on March 13.

  • MHA seeks suggestions from stakeholders on comprehensive amendments in criminal laws March 14, 2023 05:29 PM IST

    MHA seeks suggestions from stakeholders on comprehensive amendments in criminal laws

    Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra said in Lok Sabha that a committee had been constituted under the chairpersonship of the vice-chancellor of National Law University, Delhi to suggest reforms in the criminal laws -- the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

  • Currency in circulation at Rs 31.22 lakh crore as of March 2022 March 13, 2023 02:46 PM IST

    Currency in circulation at Rs 31.22 lakh crore as of March 2022

    The currency in circulation, which includes bank notes and coins, to GDP ratio stood at 13.7 per cent as on March 25, 2022, up from 11.6 per cent as on March 2014.

  • Uproar in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha over Rahul Gandhi's remarks on democracy, both Houses adjourned till 2 PM March 13, 2023 11:50 AM IST

    Uproar in Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha over Rahul Gandhi's remarks on democracy, both Houses adjourned till 2 PM

    As soon the second part of the Budget session of the House started, Defence Minister and Deputy Leader of the Lok Sabha Rajnath Singh stood up, and said Gandhi has tried to 'defame' India in London through his remarks on Indian democracy.

  • BJP must make stand on Women's Reservation Bill clear, should table it in Lok Sabha in upcoming session: Congress March 10, 2023 03:33 PM IST

    BJP must make stand on Women's Reservation Bill clear, should table it in Lok Sabha in upcoming session: Congress

    The Congress’ assertion came on a day BRS leader K Kavitha was observing a hunger strike seeking passage of the long-pending bill in the second part of the Budget session starting March 13.

  • Will ensure MVA contests Maharashtra assembly and Lok Sabha polls together: Sharad Pawar March 06, 2023 05:13 PM IST

    Will ensure MVA contests Maharashtra assembly and Lok Sabha polls together: Sharad Pawar

    Pawar was speaking to reporters after the newly-elected Congress MLA from Kasba Peth Assembly constituency in Pune city, Ravindra Dhangekar, visited the NCP chief at his residence here.

  • India-Pakistan trade stood at $1.35 billion during April-Dec 2022 February 08, 2023 06:59 PM IST

    India-Pakistan trade stood at $1.35 billion during April-Dec 2022

    Similarly, the country's trade with China has aggregated at about USD 87 billion during the nine-month period of this fiscal, according to the data provided by Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Anupriya Patel in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.