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Centre gets 6th extension to frame rules for Citizenship Act
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi, January 11 (ANI) Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has been granted extension for the sixth time from the Parliamentary Committees on Subordinate Legislation in the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha to frame the rules for the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, said so
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Venkaiah Naidu reviews situation after over 400 Parliament staff test posi
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): Soon after 402 staff of Parliament were tested COVID-19 positive ahead of the budget session of the Parliament, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has reviewed the situation and directed that necessary measures be taken to contain the spread of the v
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Ahead of budget session, over 400 Parliament staff test positive for COVID
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 9 (ANI): Ahead of the Budget Session of the Parliament, more than 400 Parliament staff members were tested positive for COVID-19, according to official sources.
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All women MPs should be allowed to testify: Sushmita Dev to parliamentary
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The only woman member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports Sushmita Dev on Monday wrote to the Committee Chairperson Vinay Sahayabuddhe to invoke Rule 84 (1) to enable women MPs to testify before Committee
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Only one woman MP in Parliamentary panel on marriage age; Priyanka Chaturv
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote a letter to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu raising concern over the inclusion of only one woman in the Parliamentary panel that will examine the Prohibition on Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill seeking to increase th
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Panel is gender skewed, says lone MP in Parliamentary committee formed to
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The parliamentary panel headed by BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, to which the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill that seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 has been referred to, will start its deliberat
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South African President says police questioning person linked to Parliam
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Cape Town [South Africa], January 2 (ANI/ Sputnik): South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that someone was being held for questioning in connection with a massive fire that erupted at the parliamentary precinct in the early hours of Sunday morning with no casualties.
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Fire breaks out in Parliament building in South Africa's Cape Town, no cas
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Capetown [South Africa], December 2 (ANI): The Parliament building in South Africa's Capetown caught fire on Sunday morning.
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Pakistan's draft finance bill approval a challenging task: Report
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], December 28 (ANI): Approval of the draft finance bill envisaging not only the withdrawal of sales tax exemptions amounting to 330 billion rupees and granting autonomy to the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) from the Cabinet and then the Parliament is going to be a challengi
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Half of Parliament sessions conclude short of schedule; 40 pc run full cou
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): The last five sessions of the Parliament were adjourned sine die ahead of the schedule losing a total of 29 sittings in the process.
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PM Modi present at poll campaigns everyday but absent in Parliament: Malli
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Kalaburagi (Karnataka) [India], December 26 (ANI): Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday by saying that the "PM could make himself available for the election campaign every day but he chose to be absent in the Parliame
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Piyush Goyal slams opposition parties, says they should reflect on behavio
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 24 (ANI): Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday hit out at opposition parties over their remarks concerning the suspension of 12 MPs in Rajya Sabha during the winter session of parliament and said they "should introspect on the uncivilized behaviour of
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