Gandhinagar: A multi-party committee of Members of Parliament will begin a two-day visit to Gujarat on Thursday to gather input on the proposed Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024. The committee will arrive in Ahmedabad on Thursday evening and hold discussions on Friday with senior officials from various Gujarat government departments and representatives from the state Waqf Board. They will also meet with members of the bar council, legal professionals, Muttawali associations, and other stakeholders t...Read More

New Delhi: The Winter Session of Parliament concluded on Thursday. This session, which began on December 4, comprised 14 sittings spanning over 18 days. Within this session, Lok Sabha passed 18 bills, while 17 bills got passed in Rajya Sabha. Three bills were withdrawn with the leave of Lok Sabha, and one bill was withdrawn with the leave of Rajya Sabha. The total number of bills passed by both houses during the session is 19. Three significant bills aimed at reforming the criminal justice sys...Read More

New Delhi: The Union Government, during the ongoing winter session of Parliament, informed the Rajya Sabha about the export and import of food items over the last three years. Here are the details shared by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Anupriya Patel. The details of food items, including oilseeds, edible oils and pulses, imported into the country during the last three years are at Annexure-I. The details of food items exported from the country dur...Read More

New Delhi: A total of 397 lions, including cubs, have died in Gujarat in a three-year period from 2019 to 2021, as stated by Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State in the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change in Parliament on Friday. The Minister responded to a query in Rajya Sabha during the ongoing winter session of Parliament. The reply states: As reported by the State, 397 lions including 182 cubs of 0-1 year have died in Gujarat from 2019-2021, and the details are as u...Read More

New Delhi: The Union government, on Monday, shared in the Parliament how the Airport Advisory Committee is formed. In a reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Civil Aviation (Gen. (Dr) V. K. Singh (Retd)) stated the following: ~ The Member of Parliament (MP) of the area of the airport i.e. the MP (Lok Sabha) is the ex-officio Chairman of the Airport Advisory Committee (AAC). It ensures direct accountability of the AAC to the voters of the local constituenc...Read More

New Delhi: The Women Reservation Bill, known as the 'Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam,' aiming to ensure a 33% quota for women in both the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, was introduced today during a special session in the new Parliament building. Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal presented the bill as the 128th Constitutional Amendment Bill, which states that the provisions related to the reservation of women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies will come into effect after the delimitation ...Read More

New Delhi: Gujarat and Maharashtra were the two states with the highest number of deaths in police custody in the last five years, as stated by the Union government in the Lok Sabha today. According to Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai, a total of 687 people died in police custody across the country from April 1, 2018, to March 31, 2023. Out of these, Gujarat reported 81 deaths in police custody, while Maharashtra recorded 80 such deaths during the mentioned period. Other ...Read More

New Delhi: The monsoon session of Parliament will commence on July 20th. This session will be the first session of Parliament in its new building. However, it is important for other reasons as the NDA government, led by Prime Minister Modi, will be bringing several significant bills during the session. Some of the bills that will be introduced during the session are the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023, the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill 2023, and se...Read More

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the newly built parliament building of India on May 28th, Sunday. The triangular-shaped New Parliament Building consisting of Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha & Central Courtyard and other office areas was planned by consultant M/s HCP Design Planning Management Pvt Ltd. in a 9.50-acre plot of land immediately contiguous to the existing Parliament House at New Delhi. Gujarat-headquartered HCP Design, Planning and Management Private Limited, loc...Read More

 New Delhi: The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi dedicated the new Parliament House to the nation today. Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister installed the Sengol with Nandi at the top facing East-West direction in the new Parliament House. He also lit up the Diya and offered flowers to the Sengol. Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister remarked that there are few moments in every nation’s history that are immortalized. Some dates become the immortal signature on the fac...Read More