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Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday said the request from Parliamentarians to raise the sales threshold for Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration can be looked into by the GST Council; however, she added that most small businesses ideally should be part of the GST chain. While replying to a discussion on the Central Goods and Services Tax (Second Amendment) Bill, 2023 in Rajya Sabha, Sitharaman also took note of the requests from Parliamentarians for setting up a national appellate authority for advance ruling as provided for in GST law.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is caught in a controversy after he was seen recording a video on his phone of suspended TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee mimicking the actions of Rajya Sabha chairman, Jagdeep Dhankhar. «I am not commenting,» said Congress MP Rahul Gandhi.

Narendra Modi on Wednesday dialed Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar and expressed pain over the mimicry incident. Dhankhar who is also Vice President of India, on the X platform wrote, "Received a telephone call from the Prime Minister, Shri @narendramodi Ji. He expressed great pain over the abject theatrics of some Honourable MPs and that too in the sacred Parliament complex yesterday".

Winter Session to 141, both Houses will reconvene for business on Wednesday. As the session resumes at Lok Sabha, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw is to move a bill to amend and consolidate the law relating to the development, expansion and operation of telecommunication services and telecommunication networks; assignment of spectrum in Lok Sabha on Wednesday. While Mos Law, Arjun Ram Meghwal will be moving the bill to regulate the appointment, conditions of service and term of office of the Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners, the procedure for transaction of business by the Election Commission and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, as passed by Rajya Sabha, be taken into consideration. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Singh Thakur to move that the Bill to provide for press, registration of periodicals and matters connected therewith or incidental thereto, as passed by Rajya Sabha, be taken into consideration. Apart from that bill to consolidate and amend the provisions relating to offences and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto and the Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to Criminal Procedure moved by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on December 19 will also be taken into consideration. Meanwhile, Mos Jitendra Singh will make statement regarding the status of implementation of the recommendations contained in the 376th Report of the Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change on Demands for Grants (2023-2024) (Demand No. 89) pertaining to the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology.

finance ministry on Tuesday said tax reforms, a sharp hike in capital spending “without weakening fiscal discipline” and robust public digital infrastructure are among a raft of steps initiated by the Modi government that would help India emerge as a $5-trillion economy. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said India is projected to become the third-largest economy in FY28 with a gross domestic product (GDP) of $5 trillion (from about $3.7 trillion in FY23), citing the International Monetary Fund’s forecast. Taxation measures “Direct tax measures such as the restructuring of the corporate tax rates, reduced tax litigation and removal of tax uncertainties have considerably reduced the compliance burden and resulted in high growth of revenues,” he said. Similarly, indirect tax measures include the implementation of Goods and Services Tax (GST), which has realised the goal of the One Nation, One Tax and OneMarket, expanded formalisation of the economy and ensured a high collection of GST revenue, Chaudhary added. The sharp hike in the government’s capital expenditure—from Rs 4.1 lakh crore in FY21 to the budgeted Rs 10 lakh crore in FY24 (BE)—has supported growth and also initiated the crowding-in of private sector investment, he said.

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was seen making a video of the performance, earning the ire of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leaders. Now add to that The Jat Association. The targeting of the vice president drew sharp reactions as the Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar himself termed the opposition actions as "shameful" and "insult" of his background as a farmer and "position as a Jat".

MPs were suspended from Parliament during the ongoing Winter Session 2023. The session — which commenced on December 4 — saw 14 suspensions last Thursday, 78 on Monday and 49 on Tuesday. The suspension of Parliament members is the largest in the country’s history.

Parliament security breach issue in both Houses. This was decided at a meeting of the alliance's constituents in the Parliament complex, a day after 78 MPs in both houses were suspended for raising the demand.

winter session, saying that the mother of democracy has orphaned it. He urged citizens to take the onus of ensuring the 'survival of democracy'. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sibal wrote, “Mother of Democracy.

Parliament Security Breach: A total of 92 Members of Parliament has been suspended for the remainder of the ongoing Winter Session, scheduled to end on 22 December. Ruckus in Parliament ensued after the 13 December Parliament security breach incident, with Opposition MPs seeking a statement from Union Home Minister Amit Shah. On Monday, in a a rather unprecedented move, 78 opposition MPs were suspended from Parliament within a day, marking the highest number of suspensions from Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha.

Parliament (MPs) have faced suspension from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. As the session approachs the conclusion in four days, the count is just eight short of reaching a significant century. The recent wave of suspensions saw 34 Rajya Sabha members barred from participating in the remaining session on Monday.

they were just "rumours". Also Read | India vs Bharat row: Is name change for India to ‘Bharat’ possible? Mahua Moitra was being investigated over the allegations that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP took bribes to pose questions against businessman Gautam Adani at the Lok Sabha. An ethics committee sat to probe the allegations.

PetaFlops compute capacity under the National Supercomputing Mission, Parliament was informed on Friday. Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha said that systems have been commissioned at 20 academic institutions, organisations and Research and Development (R&D) labs across the country.

ALSO READ: 'New Parliament building not configured well': Opposition hits out after major security lapse at Lok Sabha Some of those incidents are listed below: 1. On February 13, 2014, then Congress MP Lagadapati Rajagopal used pepper spray in Parliament, reportedly in a bid to stall the tabling of the Telangana Bill — the legislation to carve out Telangana from Andhra Pradesh. The "expelled Congress MP" had then claimed he did it in self-defence, the Indian Express had reported. 2. The late 1990s witnessed an incident similar to the one that happened on Wednesday.

finance ministry on Tuesday said the Israel-Hamas war has no impact on the Indian economy through the global crude oil prices, which have receded to the pre-conflict levels after a temporary increase in the immediate aftermath of the tension. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary also said the government has been successfully adopting measures to mitigate global shocks on the domestic economy over the past three-four years. These steps include diversification of the sources of critical imports, increasing the supply of domestic output to restrain inflation and strengthening domestic growth drivers, he said. “Presently, high public capital expenditure, robust private consumption and expanded digital public infrastructure are some of the strong domestic growth drivers, which have made India the fastest growing economy in 2022 and 2023 as per the estimates of IMF (International Monetary Fund),” he said. As for the Indian basket of crude oil, Chaudhary said, the prices hit a post-conflict peak of $93.9 per barrel on October 20 from $85.7 on October 6, a day before the outbreak of the conflict. However, they were down to $78.4 as of December 5. Global brent crude oil futures had posted their sharpest weekly losses since March in the week through October 6 to $84.60.

BJP members in the Lok Sabha on Monday raked up the issue of recovery of a huge amount of cash from a distillery company linked to Congress' Jharkhand Rajya Sabha MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu. Sanjay Seth, the BJP member from Ranchi, raised the issue during the Zero Hour, seeking a reply from the Congress.

coal is not happening in India in the foreseeable future, Parliament was informed on Monday. Although India is pushing for renewable, non-fossil-based energy, but the share of coal in the energy basket is going to remain significant in the years ahead to ensure affordable energy availability, coal and mines minister Pralhad Joshi said.

Meenakshi Lekhi on Saturday said she did not approve any answer to a question in the Lok Sabha on declaring Hamas a terrorist organisation, prompting the opposition to call for a probe. «You have been misinformed as I have not signed any paper with this question and this answer,» the minister of state for external affairs said in response to a post on X on the Lok Sabha question on declaring Hamas a terrorist organisation.

Congress leader Mahua Moitra was on Friday expelled from the Lok Sabha on the recommendation of Ethics Committee report in the 'cash for query' that was tabled in the Lower House today. The Ethics Committee report probing 'Unethical Conduct' of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP had recommended that Moitra «may be expelled» from the Lok Sabha and called for an «intense, legal, institutional inquiry» by the central government in a «time-bound manner». «The serious misdemeanours on the part of Mahua Moitra calls for severe punishment. The Committee, therefore, recommend that Mahua Moitra, MP may be expelled from the Membership of the Seventeenth Lok Sabha,» the report stated. What's the road ahead for Mahua Moitra: As per legal experts, Mahua can challenge her expulsion in the court of law, citing that " there was no evidence of cash or gift given to her." Minutes after her expulsion as a Lok Sabha member, Moitra said she has been found guilty of breaching a code of ethics that does not exist and that there was no evidence of cash or gift given to her. Is there any precedence similar to Mahua Moitra's case: In December 2005, the Lok Sabha had expelled 10 members and a Rajya Sabha member from Parliament in a cash-for-query scam. In 2005, a sting operation conducted by online news site Cobrapost and aired on a private TV channel brought to light a cash-for-query scam.

Narendra Modi was given standing ovation at BJP Parliamentary Party meeting on Thursday. The PM was felicitated for party's victory in Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Telangana CM Oath Ceremony Live Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union ministers S Jaishankar, Amit Shah and Ashwani Vaishanaw were among other MPs who arrived on Thursday morning in Parliament to participate in a key Parliamentary party meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today.

According to a reply submitted before the Rajya Sabha, terrorist-initiated incidents were 41 (till Nov 15) as compared to 125 in 2022, 129 in 2021, 126 in 2020 and 153 in 2019, the year when Article 370 was abrogated. The number of encounters by security forces, including J&K Police, Army and CRPF, stood at 44 in 2023, 117 in 2022, 100 in 2021, 118 in 2020 and 102 in 2019.