Parliament session

Lok Sabha session live updates: The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 is aimed at providing relief to persons in Jammu and Kashmir residing in areas adjoining the international border. read more

Parliament session highlights: Congress leaders Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Shashi Tharoor and TMC’s Saugata Roy will move a resolution against the Aadhaar amendment bill. read more

Parliament session highlights: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reply on motion of thanks on President’s address today. read more

Parliament Session highlights: The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 and Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 are likely to be introduced in the Lok Sabha today. read more

The transgender rights bill, originally introduced in 2016, triggered a controversy with many activists saying the legislation hurt the community and didn’t address key issues such as violence, employment, education and separate quotas. read more

President Ram Nath Kovind said the government has hit the ground running and taken many decisions to improve the lives of people in the 21 days after oath. read more

Parliament Session highlights: BJP’s Kota MP Om Birla was elected speaker of the Lok Sabha after his name was proposed by leaders of various parties. read more

Parliament Session: As soon as the House met, the Members stood in silence for a few minutes as per the convention “to mark the solemn occasion of the first sitting of the 17th Lok Sabha”. read more

The BJP led NDA has 353 MPs in the lower house of Parliament that has a total strength of 545. The BJP alone has 302 MPs, while the second largest party in the house, the Congress has 52 MPs. read more

The submission of the report comes a day after the Congress demanded that the top auditor Rajiv Mehrishi should recuse himself from auditing the deal as he was the finance secretary when the deal was negotiated. read more

Political parties should come clear on what they think is the best way to address the farm crisis read more

The issue of draft National Citizen Register in Assam continued to rocked Rajya Sabha proceedings on Wednesday. Here are the highlights: read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing the first BJP parliamentary party meeting in the ongoing Monsoon Session. read more

Leaders of Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Trinamool Congess, Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party, RJD, DMK, CPI(M), CPI, JD(S), RSP, IUML, and KC-M attended the meeting. read more