Amid BJP vs Opposition Parliament Staredown, Speaker's Request To Parties
NDTV
The second half of the Budget Session has seen constant disruptions and adjournments as the BJP and opposition parties have locked horns over their respective demands.
To end the logjam in the Parliament, the Lok Sabha Speaker today held separate discussions with all parties, urging them to let both the houses conduct business without interruptions. The union budget and finance bill should be discussed in the Parliament, he said.
Opposition parties have accused the BJP-led government of stalling the Parliament and using Rahul Gandhi's London remarks as an excuse to distract from their demand of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani-Hindenburg issue.
The government has said that the matter is being looked into by the Supreme Court, which has constituted a committee in this regard.
The BJP has been demanding an apology from Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for his remarks on Indian democracy on his UK trip. The Wayanad MP has sought time to respond to BJP's allegations that he asked for foreign intervention in India and insulted the country by question the state of India democracy abroad, but the ruling party has been protesting in both houses of the parliament, asking him to apologise first.
The BJP, Vishnu Deo Sai said, has shown huge respect to Ambedkar, no matter who headed the government -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Narendra Modi.
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A second-cousin brother of the late legend, actor-film-maker Guru Dutt, Shyam Benegal was 90 and breathed his last at a private hospital in Mumbai. He is survived by his wife Nira and their daughter Pia.
The union government has scrapped the 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 in schools governed by it allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams, according to officials.
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Several domestic carriers, between October and November, received hundreds of "hoax" messages or calls on their official communication channels including on social media.
Former Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's BJD has made it clear that they are not against Electronic Voting Machines, questioning instead the integrity of the election process.
Lavi Pal alias Rahul Saini was arrested after an encounter in which he was injured on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.
Seven Indians were injured in the deadly car-ramming attack in the eastern German city of Magdeburg.
The man, identified as Zakir, gesticulated to a biker to help him, even as the truck kept accelerating, showed the 36-second clip.
All the accused were arrested in November and December after reviewing data from the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center (I4C), said Priyanshu Dewan, ACP (cyber).