Parliament highlights: Both houses adjourned till 11am Thursday

The Lok Sabha has been adjourned till 11am tomorrow.

The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 11am tomorrow.

Government has incurred expenditure of ₹24.84 crore so far on development of mobile applications, web applications, Census Monitoring and Management System (CMMS) portal and related activities, as per Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday.

Discussion on the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amend) Bill, 2022 continues in Rajya Sabha.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered 497 cases till December 2, 2022, including the Coimbatore blast case, minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The IRCTC has received more than 5,000 complaints related to quality of food in trains in the past seven months, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Wednesday.Replying to a query in Lok Sabha, Vaishnaw said between April 1, 2022, and October 31, 2022, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation received a total of 5,869 complaints of food quality in trains.

A child will not have to get adopted if there are more parents who are ready to do the procedure, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani told the Rajya Sabha, underlining that more girl children are being adopted in India in the last three years against boys.

The Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill that seeks to include the Gond community in the Scheduled Tribes category in parts of Uttar Pradesh.

The Rajya Sabha passed by a voice vote the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022, which was introduced by Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda on Tuesday.

Government has not shut any schemes, says FM Sitharaman in response to issue raised by RLP MP Hanuman Beniwal.

We will be able to meet fiscal deficit target of 6.4 per cent of GDP for current fiscal, says Finance Minister in Lok Sabha.

Minister of law & justice Kiren Rijiju moves the New Delhi International Arbitration Centre (Amendment) Bill, 2022 in Rajya Sabha. 

Demand for Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA)  is coming down in recent past; it is demand-driven scheme: FM in Lok Sabha.

As many as 719 national highway (NH) projects are facing delays and 438 projects of these are likely to be completed in the ongoing fiscal, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.

As many as 268 projects are facing delays of less than a year, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari informed the Rajya Sabha.In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Gadkari said, "The government constantly monitors sanctioned projects and as part of this exercise, 719 delayed National Highway projects have been identified across various states."

 Rajya Sabha has passed The Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022.

India has to work on becoming self-sufficient in fertiliser production, says Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Lok Sabha.

Forex reserves one of the largest; provide adequate buffer against global spillovers: FM in Lok Sabha, quoting World Bank report.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman replies to the discussion on Supplementary Demands for Grants (2022-2023) & Demands for Excess Grants (2019-2020).

A BJP member on Wednesday raised the issue of Bihar hooch tragedy in Lok Sabha demanding immediate suspension of Superintendent of Police of Saran.

Janardan Singh Sigriwal claimed that hundreds of people die every day consuming illicit liquor in Bihar. About a dozen people have lost their lives in today's hooch tragedy in Saran district of Bihar, he said.

Sino-Indian border issue: Tharoor slams govt for 'small statement without clarification', calls for debate Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday hit out at the government for not holding a discussion in Parliament on the India-China border issue, and said giving out a "small statement" without any clarification is not democratic.

Tharoor's remarks came a day after Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in a statement to Parliament, said Chinese troops tried to "unilaterally" change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Yangtse area of Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang sector on December 9, but the Indian Army compelled them to retreat with its "firm and resolute" response. The Congress has been demanding a discussion on the border issue and accusing the government of hiding the truth.

Minister MundaArjun replies to the discussion on the Constitution (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) Orders (Second Amendment) Bill, 2022 in RajyaSabha.

The Rajya Sabha session has been resumed at 2 pm.

The total number of Kashmiri Pandits killed in the Valley during the last three years from 2020 to 2022 are 9 including a person belonging to Kashmiri Rajput Community: MoS Home Nityanand Rai to Rajya Sabha

The Lok Sabha session has been adjourned till 2:10 pm, while the Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till 2 pm.

TMC MPs walk out from Lok Sabha after being denied discussion on China's Tawang incursion.

Congress MPs stage a walkout from Lok Sabha after being denied discussion on China. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Sonia Gandhi lead the walk out.