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Opposition MPs protest at Parliament premises demanding GST payments to st
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): Holding posters and banners, MPs of several opposition parties protested in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Parliament premises on Thursday, demanding Goods and Services Tax (GST) payments to states.
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SC to pass 'appropriate order' on setting up courts for trial of MPs, MLAs
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 17 (ANI): The Supreme Court said it would pass appropriate orders on the petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay, seeking setting up of special courts for speedy trial of sitting and former MPs and MLAs facing criminal or corruption
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Activists thank British MPs for raising extrajudicial killings, enforced d
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 15 (ANI): A Baloch political activist has thanked British Member of Parliament Jonathan Gullis for raising the issue of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of the Baloch before the British government.
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Lok Sabha passes bill to reduce salaries of MPs by 30 pc
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a bill that reduces the salary payable to Members of Parliament by 30 per cent for one year commencing April 1, 2020.
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MPs are 'warriors' performing duty while at risk of acquiring COVID infect
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Appreciating the parliamentarians for risking their lives amid the COVID-19 pandemic while attending the monsoon session, Rajya Sabha Congress Member of Parliament KTS Tulsi on Tuesday said they are also the corona "warriors".
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Left MPs protest against Centre's 'anti-farmers policies'
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Members of Parliament (MPs) of the Left parties protested in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue in the Parliament House premises, over their demand for withdrawal of 'anti-farmers policies'.
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Parliament has given positive message to people: Om Birla
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 15 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday said that Parliament has given a positive message to people of the country and a large number of ministers and members were present under exceptional circumstances created by COVID-19 and took part in the proceedings
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Azad says Houses of Parliament could have sat for 5 hours every day to acc
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday suggested that MPs could have worked for five hours every day instead of four so that question hour could be taken up in monsoon session with the government stating that the session was bein
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Only 45 Lok Sabha MPs used app to mark attendance on first day of Parliame
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): Forty-five Lok Sabha MPs marked their attendance through an app while others used the traditional method of signing on the register as the Monsoon session of Parliament kicked off on Monday.
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Rajya Sabha pays tributes to former MPs who passed away recently, adjourne
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): Rajya Sabha on Monday began its proceedings by paying tributes to former President Pranab Mukherjee and for sitting members Beni Prasad Verma, M P Veerendra Kumar, Amar Singh, and for ex-members who passed away recently.
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Monsoon Session: 17 MPs including Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant Kumar Hegde test
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): Seventeen Members of Parliament, including ruling BJP leaders Meenakshi Lekhi, Anant Kumar Hegde and Parvesh Sahib Singh have tested positive for coronavirus on the first day of Monsoon session of the Parliament.
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In a first, MPs use 'Attendance Register' app to mark attendance in Parlia
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 14 (ANI): In a first of its kind initiative, the members of Parliament marked their attendance through an app on Monday, according to the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
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