Parliament Highlights: AAP MP Raghav Chadha suspended; Sanjay Singh's suspension extended in Rajya Sabha

Parliament Monsoon Session Highlights: Check out latest updates on the monsoon session on the the last day of the session.

Members sit in the Rajya Sabha during the Monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Parliament Monsoon Session Highlights: The Monsoon Session of parliament ends today with the violence in Manipur remaining central to the Opposition's protest that led to multiple disruptions followed by an unsuccessful no-trust vote....Read More

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• 11 Aug 2023, 03:11:20 PM IST

  ‘All these assaults on democracy will not deter INDIA’: TMC MP Derek O'Brien on Twitter

  “Suspending MPs. Weaponizing privilege motions to throttle every voice of dissent. PM Narendra Modi listen carefully- all these assaults on democracy will not deter INDIA,” TMC MP Derek O'Brien on Twitter after RS chairman suspends AAP MPs Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh.

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:50:46 PM IST

  ‘People of the country will remove their masks’: Union Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Parliament disruptions

  Union Minister Jyotiraditya M. Scindia says, "From the past month since when the activities for the upcoming Lok Sabha and Vidhan Saha election started, we are listening to the reference of Ramayana and Mahabharata a lot both in the house and outside the house...But I believe that the people of our country are well aware and they'll only remove their masks."

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:48:44 PM IST

  Rajya Sabha concludes for Monsoon session

  Rajya Sabha concludes for Monsoon session

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:48:25 PM IST

  ‘India had to wait 75 years to decolonise’: BJP MP Tejasvi Surya

  “The fact that India had to wait for 75 years to decolonise its criminal justice system speaks volumes of the kind of intellectual and mental slavery that plagued the earlier regimes. This is a great step towards decolonisation,” says BJP leader Tejasvi Surya on tabling of three bills to replace IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act.

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:45:05 PM IST

  Rajya Sabha returns The Integrated Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2023 to Lok Sabha

  Rajya Sabha returns The Integrated Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2023 to Lok Sabha after consideration.

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:35:07 PM IST

  ‘Deeply pained…’: RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar

  “Deeply pained by the behaviour of the members of the house,” Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:30:11 PM IST

  ‘I do not condone this behaviour…dishonour of House not acceptable’: RS Chairman

  ‘I do not condone this behaviour. The dishonour of House not acceptable. It is anti-democratic,’ says RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar.

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:28:04 PM IST

  Watch: Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar suspends Raghav Chadha

  Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar announces, "...I suspend Raghav Chadha from the service of the Council till the Council has the benefit of the report by the Committee of Privileges."

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:27:15 PM IST

  Rajya Sabha extends suspension of AAP MP Sanjay Singh 

  “On 56 occasions AAP MP Sanjay Singh appeared in the well of the house. This repeated and deliberate misconduct deserves to be noted and recognised by India. I seek suspension of Sanjay Singh till committee of privileges investigates.”

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:22:12 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Parliament approves amendments to Central and Integrated GST laws

  Parliament approves amendments to Central and Integrated GST laws

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:20:24 PM IST

  Raghav Chadha suspended from Rajya Sabha

  Raghav Chadha suspended from Rajya Sabha

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:14:34 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Piyush Goyal speaks on the Delhi-NCT bill

  Rajya Sabha Leader Piyush Goyal speaks on the Delhi-NCT bill

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:11:07 PM IST

  Rajya Sabha bids farewell to five retiring members

  The Rajya Sabha on Friday bid farewell to five members, including BJP leader Jugalsinh Lokhandwala (BJP) who will retire on August 18, and recalled their contribution to the House.

  Out of the nine retiring members, four have been re-elected and the House will miss the other five members, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said.

  Four members -- S Jaishankar of BJP and three AITC members Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Derek O Brien and Dola Sen -- have been re-elected to the Upper House while the five retiring members are Jugalsinh Lokhandwala and Dineshchandra Jemalbhai Anavadiya of the BJP, Sushmita Dev and Shanta Chhetri from the AITC and Pradip Bhattacharya from Congress.

• 11 Aug 2023, 02:06:50 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Rajya Sabha proceedings resume

  Rajya Sabha proceedings resume

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:59:03 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Speaker reviews session achievements

  Speaker Om Birla addresses Lok Sabha about the session’s achievements as it draws to a close. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is present in the House.

  Mr. Birla highlights that the Lok Sabha discussed the no-confidence motion for more than 19 hours. 22 billls were passed by the House.

  After playing of Vande Mataram, the House is adjourned sine die.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:50:09 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Speaker reviews session achievements, Lok Sabha adjourned sine die

  Speaker Om Birla addresses Lok Sabha about the sessions achievements as it draws to a close. After playing of Vande Mataram, the House is adjourned sine die.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:48:07 PM IST

  Lok Sabha passes GST amendments bills; 28 pc tax on online gaming, casinos, horse race clubs

  Amid rising prices of onions in parts of India, the central government has started releasing the staple vegetable from its buffer stock.

  The central government had earlier decided it will maintain 3 lakh tonne of onions in the 2023-24 season as buffer stock. In 2022-23, the government maintained 2.51 lakh tonne onion as buffer stock.

  Buffer stock is maintained to meet any exigencies and for price stabilisation, if rates go up significantly during the lean supply season.

  Rohit Kumar Singh, Secretary Food and Public Distribution department in a meeting on Thursday with the Managing Directors of the government’s agricultural marketing agencies -- National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) and National Cooperative Consumers' Federation of India Limited (NCCF) -- finalized the modalities for disposal.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:38:03 PM IST

  Parliament Live: Lok Sabha adjourned sine die

  Lok Sabha adjourned sine die

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:37:35 PM IST

  Om Birla logs the number of bills In Lok Sabha

  Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla logs the number of bills presented in the house. 

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:36:22 PM IST

  PM Modi present in Lok Sabha

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is present in Lok Sabha

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:34:54 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Lok Sabha proceedings resume

  Lok Sabha proceedings resumes

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:33:31 PM IST

  BJP want to suppress democracy: Kharge

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:28:39 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: I.N.D.I.A. MPs boycott Lok Sabha proceedings against the suspension of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:27:27 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

  In the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, provision of bail if one half of maximum period of punishment under the crime committed the person has stayed in jail during trial.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:24:46 PM IST

  Home minister Shah introduces 3 Bills to strengthen provision under IPC and CrPC

  In a bid to mark an end to ‘colonial slavery’ Union Home minister Amit Shah on Friday, introduced three bills in the Lok Sabha on the last day of the Monsoon sessions of the Parliament on Friday and underlined that these Bills will deal with matter of terrorism, issues of mob-lynching and crime against women with an iron fist and that the new bill on IPC will completely repeal the offence of sedition.

  Shah after introducing the Bill requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to suggest the Bills to Parliamentary standing committees for review.

  “Criminal laws should be by Indians, for Indians. Today we have brought three Bill which end 3 colonial laws and all these bills are going to fulfill one of the five vows taken by PM Modi on 15 August at the Red Fort last year. “From 1860 to 2023, the country's criminal justice system functioned as per the laws made by the British. The three laws will be replaced and there will be a major change in the criminal justice system in the country,” Shah said during the introduction of the two Bills.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:17:07 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Lok Sabha adjourned till 1:30pm

  Lok Sabha adjourned till 1:30pm

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:15:13 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: CGST bill passed in Lok Sabha

  In quick succession, Lok Sabha passes amendments to Central, Integrated GST laws to levy 28 pc tax on e-gaming, casinos. 

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:13:59 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, along with other Opposition leaders, march toward Ambedkar statue

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:12:56 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: FM Sitharaman moves CGST bill in Lok Sabha

  Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman moves CGST (Amendment) bill in Lok Sabha

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:10:35 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: We have set goal that the conviction ratio has to be taken above 90%, says Shah

  Union Home Minister Amit Shah says, "Under this Bill, we have set the goal that the conviction ratio has to be taken above 90%. That is why, we have brought an important provision that the Sections which provide for 7 years or a greater jail term, under all those cases forensic team's visit to the crime scene will be made compulsory."

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:09:08 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2 pm amid opposition uproar over Manipur issue

  Rajya Sabha proceedings adjourned till 2 pm amid opposition uproar over Manipur issue

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:07:30 PM IST

  3 Bills include the principle law for criminal justice system: Amit Shah

  "The three Bills that I am moving today include the principle law for criminal justice system. One is Indian Penal Code which was formed in 1860, second is Criminal Procedure Code which was formed in 1898 and third is Indian Evidence Act, which was formed in 1872. We will end these laws today, which were brought by the British," says Union Home minister @AmitShah in Lok Sabha.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:06:43 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 will be established in place the Indian Penal Code, says Shah

  Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 will be established in place the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha, 2023 will replace the Criminal Procedure Act, 1898; and Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 will replace the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The laws that will be repealed were formed to safeguard and strengthen the British," says Union Home minister @AmitShah in Lok Sabha.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:05:07 PM IST

  Deemed permission for trials against civil servants if no govt reply in 120 days: Amit Shah

  Trials and chargesheets against civil servants and police officers require government permission; Amit Shah announces that the Bill will ensure that such permission is deemed to be given in 120 days if there is no reply from the government.

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:03:12 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Opposition parties didn't let the Parliament function, says Rijiju

  Union Minister and BJP MP Kiren Rijiju says, "Opposition parties didn't let the Parliament function, under the pretext of Manipur over the past few days. Yesterday, when the PM spoke on Manipur and the entire northeast, the entire Opposition had walked out. All the NDA MPs from the northeast have condemned this and we are also going to write a letter to the PM that he spoke on Manipur and the northeast in detail yesterday..."

• 11 Aug 2023, 01:01:34 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: From 1860 to 2023, the country's criminal justice system functioned as per the laws made by the British, says Shah

  Union Home Minister Amit Shah speaks on Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Bill, 2023; The Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 and The Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita Bill in Lok Sabha.

  He says, "From 1860 to 2023, the country's criminal justice system functioned as per the laws made by the British. The three laws will be replaced and there will be a major change in the criminal justice system in the country..."

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:42:47 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Home minsiter Amit Shah introduces Bharatiya Suraksha Sanhita Bill, 2023 to Lok Sabha

  Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday, last day of the Monsoon Session on the Parliament, introduced Bharatiya Suraksha Sanhita Bill, 2023, which will amend centuries-old colonial IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act.

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:37:21 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Amit Shah pays tribute to revolutionary Khudiram Bose on death anniversary in LS

  Union home minister Amit Shah on the last day of the Monsoon Session paid tribute to Indian revolutionary Khudiram bose on his death anniversary. Khudiram bose was sentenced to death on this day in 1908 for his role in Muzaffarpur conspiracy case.

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:24:37 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: MoS Defence and Tourism Ajay Bhatt on Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's suspension

  When asked about Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's suspension in the Lok Sabha, MoS Defence and Tourism Ajay Bhatt says, "Abusing PM and saying wrong things about him is not right. For this suspension opposition is to be blamed. They are making mistakes and then to show themselves good, they are not letting the Parliament work."

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:14:48 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: INDIA MPs to boycott Lok Sabha against the suspension of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury

  I.N.D.I.A. MPs to boycott Lok Sabha proceedings against the suspension of Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Lok Sabha and march to Dr Ambedkar's statue in Parliament.

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:13:21 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Rajya Sabha retiring MPs present vote of thanks 

  Rajya Sabha retiring MPs are presenting vote of thanks for thier tenure.

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:11:06 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: FM Sitharaman introduces CGST bill in Lok Sabha

  FM Sitharaman introduces CGST bill in Lok Sabha

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:08:44 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Lok Sabha adjourned till 12:30 amid ruckus by opposition

  Lok Sabha adjourned till 12:30 amid ruckus by opposition.

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:06:00 PM IST

  ‘Neerav Modi sadan mein aayo’: Opposition chants in Lok Sabha

  'Neerav Modi sadan mein aayo, Opposition MPs continue sloganeering in Lok Sabha

• 11 Aug 2023, 12:03:47 PM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Proceedings resume in both Houses

  Proceedings resume in both Houses of Parliament

• 11 Aug 2023, 11:58:16 AM IST

  Congress MP Rahul Gandhi arrived at the Parliament

  Congress MP Rahul Gandhi arrived at the Parliament earlier this morning, on the last day of the Monsoon session.

• 11 Aug 2023, 11:51:49 AM IST

  Opposition will fail: BJP MP Tejasvi Surya

  BJP MP Tejasvi Surya says, “Citizens of India had revealed their disbelief for opposition both in 2014 and in 2019. Yesterday, in Parliament, the no-confidence motion failed, and I think that in the upcoming Lok Sabha election the opposition will fail with greater disbelief in them.”

• 11 Aug 2023, 11:41:05 AM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 noon

  Rajya Sabha proceedings adjourned till 12 noon amid opposition uproar after BJP member raises issue of law and order in Rajasthan.

• 11 Aug 2023, 11:39:57 AM IST

  Ruckus continues in Rajya Sabha amid the proceedings

  Ruckus continues in Rajya Sabha amid the proceedings

• 11 Aug 2023, 11:38:24 AM IST

  Parliament LIVE: Pramod Tiwari urges PM Modi's presence in Rajya Sabha

  Congress MP Pramod Tiwari urges PM Modi's presence in Rajya Sabha during the farewell speeches of the retiring members.