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A 1987-batch IAS officer of Tamil Nadu cadre, Somanathan is currently serving as Union Finance Secretary and Secretary, Expenditure.

NEW DELHI: Both Houses of Parliament were adjourned sine die on Friday, one sitting ahead of the scheduled end of the session. The Budget session, which began on July 22, was scheduled to end on August 12. When the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha…

NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi government on Friday formed a 31-member Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Waqf Bill, which proposes as many as 40 amendments to the existing 1995 Act. Both Houses adopted a motion for nominating the members…

NEW DELHI: The BJP-led government on Thursday withdrew the Waqf Properties (Eviction of Unauthorised Occupants) Bill 2014, which sought to provide for a mechanism for the eviction of unauthorised occupants from waqf properties, in Rajya…

NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed the Finance Bill 2024, after the government relaxed the just-introduced new capital gains tax on real estate, giving taxpayers the option to switch to a new lower tax rate or stay with the old…

NEW DELHI: Key parliamentary panels, including the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), have started taking shape, mostly by consensus, as against elections witnessed during the previous Lok Sabha. Besides the PAC, which examines government…

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Monday hit out at the Union Budget of 2024-25 on Monday, calling it a ‘chakravyuh’ created by the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Congress leader said…

NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday termed misleading claims by opposition leaders that if any state is not named in the Budget speech, then it does not get any budgetary allocation. Replying to a Budget discussion…

The meeting brainstormed on a host of issues ranging from success of the government schemes to political challenges emerging for the party in the wake of recent Lok Sabha elections.

NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha witnessed a ruckus on Friday with the Opposition demanding a legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) and Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accusing the Congress of doing politics in the name…

NEW DELHI: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday accused the Opposition leaders of resorting to politics and abusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi instead of participating in a constructive debate during the discussion on…

NEW DELHI: More than 200 Indian pilgrims died during the Haj pilgrimage 2024, with a majority of the deaths being attributed to cardio-respiratory and cardio-pulmonary arrests, the government informed the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. In a…

NEW DELHI: Dropping hints that the Budget session of Parliament starting Monday is going to be stormy, the all-party meeting on Sunday saw Opposition parties demanding discussion on a number of contentious issues, including the NEET fiasco,…

NEW DELHI: The ruling NDA is all set to introduce six bills in the upcoming Parliament session, slated to begin on July 22. According to an official listing, the Bharatiya Vayuyan Vidheyak, 2024 is one of the bills aimed at facilitating…

The strength of the NDA in the Upper House fell to 101, which is below the current majority mark of 113 in the 245-member House.

Stressing that the need and formation of Benches could reduce backlog and pendency of cases, the apex court said that it was also very significant for upholding the right to information.

The court said that the arrest under PMLA should happen only when the materials or evidence with the designated officer enables them to form an opinion, by recording reasons in writing that the arrestee is guilty.

Sudha mentioned the visuals of Lok Sabha proceedings on July 01, uploaded on X by a journalist

चंडीगढ:  राष्ट्रीय परशुराम सेना (ब्रह्मवाहिनी) हरियाणा के प्रदेश अध्यक्ष जंगशेर शर्मा ने अपने पदाधिकारीयों के साथ चंडीगढ स्थित नवनिर्वाचित सांसद श्री मनीष तिवारी एव नरेंद्र चौधरी को जीत की बधाई एव भगवान परशुराम जी का अंगवस्त्र एवं चित्र…

Dhankar said that he took pride in the fact that the Parliament did "a great thing" by "unshackling us from the colonial legacy" and giving three laws that were of "epochal dimension".