Parliament on Friday cleared the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) or VB-G Ram G Bill, 2025, with the Rajya Sabha passing the legislation hours after its approval in the Lok Sabha, amid strong opposition protests and repeated demands for scrutiny by a parliamentary committee.Earlier, the lower house passed the Bill…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday gave its nod to the the nuclear energy bill called the “Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill (SHANTI), 2025”. The bill was passed as opposition staged a walkout, during the ongoing Winter Session.The amended bill was tabled in the lower house, with introduction…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday chaired a review and strategy meeting of Congress MPs in Lok Sabha. Party’s Thiruvananthapuram MP, Shashi Tharoor, skipped the meeting chaired by Rahul Gandhi.News agency ANI reported Tharoor had informed the leadership in advance about his unavailability, while senior Congress leader and…
NEW DELHI: Congress party countered Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “appeasement” charges against first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru during the Vande Mataram debate in Lok Sabha on Monday.Terming PM Modi “the Master Distorian”, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed three questions. Which Indian leader formed a coalition in Bengal in the early 1940s with…
The Lok Sabha has passed the Central Excise (Amendment) Bill, 2025, along with the Health and National Security Cess Bill, 2025, introducing a revised tax structure on so-called ‘sin goods’ such as tobacco, cigarettes, and pan masala. These bills are a crucial step toward replacing the GST compensation cess, which is scheduled to be phased…
Sitharaman said the bill proposes crucial reforms based on steps such as track-and-trace system. NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha on Tuesday returned to Lok Sabha the Manipur GST bill, which replaces an ordinance to implem-ent GST reforms in the state, with finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman asserting that the bill will benefit people and businesses. She also…
Govt to launch “Sahkar” taxi, cooperative-based service, announces HM Amit Shah in Lok Sabha News On AIR Source link
Flashback: On June 4, 2024, as the results started trickling in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was in shock. The party had set the ambitious “400 paar” target for itself in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the party failed to get a majority on its own for the first time since 2014.The scale of the…