On Women's Bill, Sonia Gandhi, Kanimozhi Lead Charge, Smriti Irani Replies
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In a move that raised eyebrows, the government opted for a male MP - the BJP's Nishikant Dubey - as its first speaker on a bill about women's political representation.
The new Parliament reverberated with explosive speeches from women MPs Wednesday during a heated debate on the women's reservation bill. Ex-Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, DMK MP Kanimozhi, and the NCP's Supriya Sule ripped into the government for failing to respect women, while Union Minister Smriti Irani replied by declaring the government had "made women count".
Mrs Gandhi opened the seven hours put aside for discussing this bill - which proposes a 33 per cent reservation for women in Parliament and state legislatures, but not before the 2029 national election - with a call for a quota (within the larger quota) for women from Other Backward Classes.
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The BJP, Vishnu Deo Sai said, has shown huge respect to Ambedkar, no matter who headed the government -- Atal Bihari Vajpayee or Narendra Modi.
Shyam Benegal, who burst on the scene with his first film "Ankur" in 1974, was a chronicler of India's times and politics.
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.
"Adani Defence Systems & Technologies Ltd (ADSTL) has signed a share purchase agreement to acquire 85.8 per cent shareholding in Air Works India (Engineering) Private Ltd," a company statement said.
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).