Mumbai: Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily on Friday said he is hopeful about the New Companies Bill getting passed in the Monsoon Session. "Since the Standing Committee of Parliament has concluded its deliberations on the New Companies Bill, I expect it to submit it to the ministry soon and table it in the Monsoon Session," Moily told reporters in Mumbai on the sidelines of a function on Friday. Claiming that...
11:52 PM, Jun 01, 2012
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha was on Wednesday adjourned till 2 pm to allow the Government to collect information on the bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court on Wednesday morning and make a statement. When the House met for the day, Chairman Hamid Ansari said a "disturbing news" has just trickled in about a bomb blast outside the Delhi High Court. "There are reports of some casualties. This is something...
11:20 AM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: Racing against time, Government will be introducing the much-awaited Land Acquisition Bill in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, a day ahead of the conclusion of the Monsoon Session. If Parliament is allowed to function on Wednesday, the UPA's new Land Acquisition Bill will be tabled, this after the Cabinet gave it the go ahead on Monday. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal gave an indication to this effect....
07:47 AM, Sep 07, 2011
New Delhi: The Opposition on Tuesday forced repeated adjournments in the Rajya Sabha with BJP persisting with its protest for the fourth consecutive day over appointment of Lokayukta in Gujarat. The party, supported by AIADMK, also sought to corner the government over a motion on filling up of vacancies in the Joint Parliamentary Committee on spectrum allocation, on a technical ground. BJP, helped by Shiv Sena, BJD, JD-U and AIADMK,...
01:37 PM, Sep 06, 2011
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha were adjourned for the day on Monday after uproar over various issues, including Gujarat Lokayukta appointment. Following uproar over the Gujarat Lokayukta issue, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned earlier on Monday till noon. The BJP had earlier called the appointment unconstitutional. The party has been demanding the recall of Gujarat Governor Kamala Beniwal. Last week, BJP members rushed into the well...
11:25 AM, Sep 05, 2011
New Delhi: The appointment of Lokayukta in Gujarat rocked Parliament on Tuesday, with an agitated BJP terming it as "undemocratic" and demanding recall of Governor Kamla Beniwal accusing her of violating the federal structure. BJP members created uproar in both Houses over the issue. Lok Sabha failed to transact any business as it was adjourned, first till noon and then till 2 PM. Rajya Sabha saw similar scenes during Zero...
11:01 AM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: MPs have started going high-tech as Parliament is now providing them with sleek iPads, and for those who aren't tech savvy, special orientation classes are now being organised to make Parliamentary business paper-free. Soon MPs and ministers in Parliament would be reading the business listed against their names not from a sheet of paper but iPads. The Parliament Standing Committee on IT had during the monsoon session made...
07:46 AM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Cabinet will take up a new Sports Bill on Tuesday, the proposed law will bring the richest sport body in the country - the Board of Control for cricket (BCCI) under government control. India won the world cup 2011 - a feat which ensured that the BCCI continues to rake in billions of dollars, making it the richest sports body in the world. But it's also a...
07:06 AM, Aug 30, 2011
New Delhi: The Union Cabinet will discuss the new Sports Bill on Tuesday. The Sports ministry's new Bill, looking at functioning of different sporting bodies, is to be brought up before the Cabinet on Tuesday. Cricket as a sport is also being included in the new Sports Bill. This will be the first move to bring the cricketing administration under the Sports ministry. Under the new Sports Bill, all Sport...
09:33 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: The monsoon session of the Delhi Assembly is likely to start on a stormy note on Monday with BJP set to corner the government on a range of issues including CAG indictment of Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit for alleged irregularities in certain CWG projects. Senior BJP leader VK Malhotra said the Opposition will specifically target Dikshit as the auditor has found her responsible for "questionable decisions" in various...
04:14 PM, Aug 28, 2011
New Delhi: Congress member Sandeep Dikshit on Saturday made a strong speech on the Lokpal Bill in Parliament and said that the three points made by Anna Hazare - inclusion of lower bureaucracy, Lokayuktas in all states and citizens' charter for public grievances, should be discussed comprehensively. He said that a model bill can be brought that can apply to the Lokayuktas. As for the grievances redressal mechanism, Dikshit said...
02:28 PM, Aug 27, 2011
New Delhi: As the Lok Sabha took up the debate on the Lokpal Bill on Saturday, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav got up agitatedly and said that by debating the issue the House was bypassing Parliamentary Standing Committee which is looking into the anti-graft legislation. "By allowing the house to debate the Lokpal bill directly is violating the rules," the RJD leader said soon after Finance Minister...
12:29 PM, Aug 27, 2011
New Delhi: As Anna Hazare enters day 12 of his fast on Saturday, Parliament will debate the Jan Lokpal Bill along with all the other versions of the Lokpal Bill. But it remains to be seen whether Anna's three crucial demands will be met and will the breakthrough happen. Meanwhile, sources have said that Team Anna and the government have been working on a joint statement, that will be approved...
07:02 AM, Aug 27, 2011
New Delhi: Parliament will have two extra sittings in the ongoing Monsoon Session - this Saturday as also the next Saturday. The meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday decided to have the two Saturdays as working days, and a similar decision is likely to be taken by the Lok Sabha. The sitting of both the Houses is not taking place on September 1 on...
08:30 PM, Aug 25, 2011
New Delhi: Insisting that there was no wrongdoing in the arrest of Anna Hazare, Home Minister P Chidambaram on Wednesday said the government would deal with him "administratively and politically" but made it clear that his Jan Lokpal Bill was not acceptable. Replying to a debate on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's statement on Hazare episode, Chidambaram asserted that making laws was the sovereign right of Parliament although the views of...
07:39 PM, Aug 17, 2011
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