NEW DELHI: The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that Parliament was compelled to enact a law in 2019 to make Muslim men who instantaneously divorce their wives through ‘triple talaq‘ liable to imprisonment as the SC’s 2017 ruling declaring it unconstitutional did not prove to be a deterrent against such unilateral sudden…
No political party in power took this short step despite SC goadingNEW DELHI: When the Constitution was just a year-old, law minister B R Ambedkar had stoically met the charge that the Hindu Code Bill, 1951, was communal in nature as it aimed to codify the personal law of one religious community leaving aside the…
NEW DELHI: Senior BJP Lok Sabha member Jagdambika Pal was on Tuesday named chairperson of the joint committee of Parliament (JPC), which will examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill.A Lok Sabha notification said Speaker Om Birla appointed Pal as the head of the 31-member committee.Amid protests by the opposition in Lok Sabha on its provisions,…
NEW DELHI: Jagdambika Pal, a senior BJP Lok Sabha member, has been appointed the chairperson of the joint committee of Parliament that will examine the contentious Waqf (Amendment) Bill, according to a Lok Sabha notification issued on Tuesday. The official notification said Speaker Om Birla named Pal the head of the 31-member committee. The government…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament was adjourned sine die on Friday, one sitting ahead of the scheduled end of the session, with the two Houses passing several key pieces of legislation, including the Finance Bill, 2024, and the Appropriation Bill, 2024 — both crucial for the Union Budget.The session gained significance after the introduction of the…
NEW DELHI: Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar engaged in a heated exchange with Samajwadi MP Jaya Bachchan amid massive uproar in the Upper House on Friday. During the commotion, Dhankar accused the opposition MPs of showing disrespect towards the Constitution and democracy. He then called upon Jaya Amitabh Bachchan to address the…
NEW DELHI: Putting stress on performance and participation in Parliament, Congress is learnt to have instituted a system to assess its LS MPs. It has told members that a keen eye is being kept on them and they should live up to the expectations of their large support base that elected them.LoP in Lok Sabha…
NEW DELHI: The Parliament session on Wednesday was all about Vinesh Phogat’s disqualification at the Olympics. It turned into a political storm in the House, with opposition parties talking about sabotage and questioning officials for their alleged failure to save the wrestler from slipping up on the protocol and challenge her subsequent disqualification.Both Houses witnessed…
NEW DELHI: Amid growing demand for a cut, if not removal, of GST on health and life insurance, government on Monday told Parliament that the levy fetched it Rs 21,256 crore during the last three financial years, with Rs 8,263 being collected during 2023-24.Responding to a Parliament question, junior minister for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said…
NEW DELHI: The Press Club of India wrote to Om Birla and Jagdeep Dhankar seeking meeting with Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha speaker Jagdeep Dhankar to discuss “full access to all accredited journalists and photojournalists” to Parliament like pre-Covid era.The letter followed a previous demand by the Press Club which asked for…
