The Waqf (Amendment) Bill 2024 was circulated among Lok Sabha members on Tuesday night after which the Opposition parties demanded it to be sent to Parliament's standing committee.
According to the legislation, the unification of the municipal corporations in Delhi will ensure synergized and strategic planning and optimal utilization of resources.
YSR Congress, AIADMK, Tamil Maanila Congress supported the bill. The BJD supported the bill with the condition that the corporation elections are not deferred and the BSP sought some amendments and relief for workers in the bill.
Moving the Factoring Regulation (Amendment) Bill, 2020 for consideration and passage, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the changes in the legislation are aimed at helping the MSME sector.
The Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 seeks to enable power consumers to choose from multiple service providers as in the case of telecom services.
Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan once again on Saturday requested the Centre to repeal the Odisha Universities (Amendment) Bill 2020, which was passed in the state Assembly during the Monsoon Session recently.
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2020, whereby fresh insolvency proceedings will not be initiated for at least six months starting from March 25 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Parliament on Thursday passed amendments to the insolvency law that will help ring-fence successful bidders of insolvent companies from risk of criminal proceedings for offences committed by previous promoters.
Owaisi urged the top court to lift the veil on the CAA-NRC nexus that could become a barrier to the right to life and personal liberty available to every person under Article 21 of the Constitution, and not just to citizens.
"Religious persecution is wrong and India will always give refuge to those persecuted. When President Yameen wanted to arrest me and when I went to Indian High Commission they gave me a refuge. They were quite willing to bring me to India too. Secularity of India, respecting minorities are founding ideas of India," he said.
He also hit out at Asom Gana Parishad, BJP's alliance partner in th state, for "stabbing the people of Assam in the back" as its sole MP in Rajya Sabha Birendra Prasad Baishya had voted in favour of the bill.
"Citizenship in the name of religion and discrimination in the name of religion of the citizens through it is totally against the basic structure of the humanitarian and secular Constitution of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar," the BSP leader said.
Moving the bill in the Upper House, Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said after the BJP-led government came to power, it decided to get rid of redundant and absolute laws. A committee has identified 1824 old laws. So far, 1,428 old and archaic central Acts have been repealed and about 75 laws -- which the Centre drafted for states in view of the President rule -- have also been repealed till date.
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved official changes to Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill 2019 that incorporates a clause to allow the use of Aadhaar data for state schemes and subsidies.
In a bid to combat rising cases of child sex abuse, a Bill for enhancing punishment, including a provision for the death penalty, for committing sexual crimes against children was introduced in Rajya Sabha on Thursday.
The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019, was passed by a voice vote after Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad assured the House that Aadhaar is voluntary and informed consent of the biometric identity holder has to be obtained before it is used.
The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill 2014, aimed at amending Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act-2004, was introduced in the House by Minister for Social Welfare Sajad Gani Lone.
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, which aims at unleashing radical reforms in the transport sector by ensuring 100 per cent e-governance, checking bogus driving licenses and vehicle thefts.
the health ministry has recommended recognising “failure of contraceptive” and “unplanned pregnancy” as legitimate reasons for abortion among all women, married or single.
Kathmandu: Nepal's much-awaited Constitution Amendment Bill which includes proportionate representation and allocation of parliamentary seats on the basis of population-addressing two major demands of agitating Indian-origin Madhesi parties - was tabled in Parliament today.The Reconstruction
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