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Lok Sabha: Select Committee formed to examine Income Tax Bill
Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla formed a 31-member Select Committee of the lower house to examine the Income Tax Bill.

Published on Feb 15, 2025 12:28 AM IST
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UP legislative council refers nazul land bill to select committee
MLC and BJP UP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary asked the chair to refer the nazul land bill to the select committee for consideration

Published on Aug 01, 2024 10:29 PM IST
HT Correspondent, Lucknow
Uttarakhand assembly sets up 7-member panel on job quota for statehood activists
BJP and Congress lawmakers supported the intent of the legislation for 10% job quota but pointed out that there were still some gaps

Published on Sep 10, 2023 06:33 PM IST
Chadha rejects as ‘totally baseless’ allegations of forging signatures of MPs
On Monday, five Rajya Sabha MPs demanded a privilege motion against Chadha alleging their “forged signatures” were added to a proposed select committee without consent

Updated on Aug 10, 2023 01:23 PM IST
AAP defends Raghav Chadha on alleged misconduct: ‘Just like Rahul Gandhi…’
Suspended AAP MP Sanjay Singh alleged that Amit Shah was after Raghav Chadha and it wanted to take away his Rajya Sabha membership.

Updated on Aug 09, 2023 08:12 PM IST
HT This Day: April 9, 1947 -- Indian currency to be independent
The Central Assembly today passed three important bills, one delinking the rupee from the sterling, another providing for production and marketing of rubber and a third giving protection to several industries as recommended by the Tariff Board.

Updated on Apr 08, 2023 10:00 PM IST
HT Correspondent, New Delhi
Parliament Highlights- ‘So-called liberals opposed a progressive law’: Arun Jaitley on Triple Talaq bill
Ravi Shankar Prasad tabled the Triple Talaq bill in Rajya Sabha for consideration and passage and the NDA managed to clear the Triple Talaq bill in the Rajya Sabha.The Unnao rape survivor, who met with an accident on Sunday, has been on ventilator support at the King George’s Medical University trauma centre in Lucknow. While her mother demanded that she be airlifted to a Delhi hospital for better treatment, doctors said the next 24 hours will decide the further line of treatments. There was a ruckus in the Rajya Sabha over the accident of the rape survivor.Read highlights here:

Updated on Jul 30, 2019 10:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | HT Correspondent
Opposition loses its bite in Rajya Sabha, govt pushes RTI amendment through
A resolution moved by a group of opposition parties to send the Right to Information (Amendment) Bill 2019 for scrutiny by a Select Committee of lawmakers hadn’t been successful.

Updated on Jul 25, 2019 08:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi |
HT Correspondent
Sri Lanka government defies Maithripala Sirisena to resume parliamentary probe into Easter blasts
President Sirisena, who is the head of the Cabinet, warned last week that he would not attend the Cabinet unless the government took immediate action to halt the parliamentary investigation.

Published on Jun 11, 2019 07:52 PM IST
Colombo |
Press Trust of India
The SC judgment is a good starting point to remake CBI
The court’s order has given everyone an opportunity to do the right thing by an agency that has lost face and credibility. Part of this is because of the CBI’s own overt politicisation, although the agency has always been politicised

Updated on Jan 08, 2019 05:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times | HT Correspondent
Parliament passes Bill to provide death to child rape convicts
The Bill replaces the Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance promulgated on April 21, following an outcry over the rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua in Jammu and Kashmir and the rape of another woman at Unnao in Uttar Pradesh.

Updated on Aug 06, 2018 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | , New Delhi
HT CorrespondentAnti-graft bill not passed by Lok Sabha: Venkaiah Naidu corrects records
Correcting the record, Venkaiah Naidu said the Bill to amend the anti-graft law was the one reported by the Select Committee of the House.

Updated on Apr 05, 2018 03:15 PM IST
Press Trust of India | , New Delhi
Press Trust of India