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RS Chairman Naidu suggests MPs to participate in business with patience, t
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday suggested the MPs to participate in House proceedings with patience and tolerance, terming the two virtues as the beauty of democracy.
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Parliament approves Companies Amendment Bill
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India) July 30 (ANI) A Bill that seeks to tighten corporate social responsibility (CSR) norms and ensure stricter action for non-compliance of the company law regulations was on Tuesday approved by the Parliament with the Rajya Sabha passing it by voice vote.
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Companies will now to have explain where they spend CSR money: Sitharaman
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said companies will now have to explain where they have spent money allocated for corporate social responsibility (CSR) while adding that the companies have to move this money to an escrow account if not s
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Deft floor management helped BJP get Triple Talaq Bill passed in Rajya Sab
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): The success of BJP in getting the contentious Triple Talaq Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha came after some deft political management by the party leaders, which included reaching out to opposition leaders, MPs "individually" and chief ministers of Odisha, And
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Triple talaq bill stands for gender justice and equality, not religion: RS
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday said the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 stands for gender justice, equality and dignity, and is not about religion.
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Mufti, Omar engage in Twitter spat over passage of triple talaq bill in RS
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah engaged in a war of words on Twitter after the passage of the triple talaq bill in Rajya Sabha, with the latter stating that PDP leaders abstaining from voting "helped the governme
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Parliament passes Bill criminalising instant Triple Talaq
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): The Central government on Tuesday scored a major victory in the Rajya Sabha on the back of cracks in the opposition when the House passed the Triple Talaq Bill after rejecting the opposition's demand to refer the Bill to the Select Committee and to remove th
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Triple Talaq bill : 'Archaic practice confined to dustbin,' says PM Modi
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday thanked "all parties and MPs" who supported the passage of Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill, 2019 and said that with the legislation crossing the Rajya Sabha hurdle a "historical wrong done to Mu
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Rajya Sabha approves Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Bill,
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): The government on Tuesday scored a major victory in the Rajya Sabha on the back of cracks in the opposition when the House passed the triple talaq bill after rejecting the opposition demand to refer it to the select committee and to remove the criminality cl
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Ghulam Nabi Azad terms Triple Talaq Bill as 'politically motivated'
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday strongly opposed the Triple Talaq Bill in Rajya Sabha and termed it "politically motivated".
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AIADMK opposes Triple Talaq Bill, stages walkout in Rajya Sabha
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), July 30 (ANI): National Democratic Alliance (NDA) constituent AIADMK on Tuesday termed the Triple Talaq Bill "unconstitutional and illegal" and later staged a walkout in the Rajya Sabha protesting against it.
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Govt bringing law on triple talaq for empowerment of Muslim women: Naqvi i
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 30 (ANI): The BJP government is bringing the law on triple talaq for the social, financial and constitutional empowerment of Muslim women in the country, said Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
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