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Goa: CM praises bill allowing women to work in night shifts
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Panaji (Goa) [India], Aug 2 (ANI): Chief Minster on Friday praised the recent bill which allows women to work in night shifts in Goa. His party's MLA Alena Sardanha, on the other hand, expressed a contrary opinion on the bill.
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LS passes bill on Jallianwala Bagh trust, minister says govt not trying to
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 2 (ANI): The Lok Sabha on Friday passed Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019 which seeks to do away with the automatic nomination of Congress president as trustee of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial trust.
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Parliament passes Bill to repeal 58 obsolete laws
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 2 (ANI): Parliament on Friday approved the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2019 that repeals 58 obsolete and irrelevant laws with the Rajya Sabha passing it by voice vote.
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To declare individuals as terrorists Parliament passes anti- terror Bill
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 2 (ANI): Parliament on Friday approved the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 that empowers the central government to designate individuals as terrorists if the person commits or participates in acts of terrorism with the Rajya Sabha passing it after
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Passing UAPA Amendment Bill will be a monumental error: Chidambaram
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 2 (ANI): Former Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday termed "unconstitutional" the amendment brought in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act to designate a person as a terrorist and said it will be struck down in the court of law as it violates an individual's
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Rajya Sabha passes UAPA Amendment Bill
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 2 (ANI): The Rajya Sabha on Friday approved the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019 that empowers the central government to designate individuals as terrorists if the person commits or participates in acts of terrorism.
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Look at your past: Shah hits out at Cong amid UAPA discussion in RS
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 2 (ANI): Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked the Congress party to look at their past while invoking reference of the emergency period during a discussion in Rajya Sabha on the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019.
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We lost Indira, Rajiv but never compromised on terror: Digvijaya Singh
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 2 (ANI): Asserting that Congress never compromised on terrorism, senior party leader Digvijaya Singh on Friday attacked the BJP for faltering with national security by releasing JeM chief Masood Azhar in 1999 in Afghanistan.
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Saudi to lift travel restrictions on its women
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Riyadh [Saudi Arabia], Aug 2 (ANI): The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would be enacting amendments which would grant its women the right to apply for passports and travel independently, said Reema Bandar Al-Saud, the country's Ambassador to the United States on Friday.
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Opposition raises concerns over misuse of anti-terror Bill
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 2 (ANI): The Opposition on Thursday raised concerns over the "misuse" of The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019, that seeks to designate an individual as a terrorist.
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Will make MPs apologise if they ask other members to 'sit down', warns LS
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), Aug 1 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Thursday took objection to a member from treasury benches telling a Congress leader to sit down during debate on POCSO amendment bill and said if such a comment is repeated he will ask the concerned member to apologise.
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Rajya Sabha takes up UAPA Bill, Congress questions provisions
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), August 1 (ANI): Rajya Sabha on Thursday took up the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019, after rejecting Opposition's demand not to extend the sitting of the Upper House beyond the scheduled time for the passage of the contentious Bill that designates an
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