Rajya Sabha News

UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed film art director Nitin Desai, who died by suicide, had met some BJP leaders in Delhi but didn't get help to save his studio whereas the proposed auction of BJP MP Sunny Deol's bungalow was stopped within 24 hours. «We don't have anything against Sunny Deol.

home ministry is learnt to have informed a parliamentary panel looking into the new three bills seeking to reform the criminal laws, that a provision has been added in the Evidence Act that no court shall require any privileged communication between the ministers and the President of India to be produced before it. These details were shared with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, which is examining the three bills which seek to replace the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and the Evidence Act, with the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bills, respectively. Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla made a detailed presentation on various aspects of the proposed legislation. His presentation will continue for two more days (Friday and Saturday). In the second week of September, members are likely to get two days to seek clarification from the home secretary. Home Minister Amit Shah had introduced the three bills –– the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill –– in the Lok Sabha during the Monsoon session, and the House had referred them to the standing committee. The ministry has informed the panel that it has proposed a provision in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, which will be replaced with Bharatiya Sakshya Bill that no court shall require privileged communication between ministers and the President of India to be produced before it, sources said.

Janshakti Party chief and his late brother Ram Vilas Paswan, while Chirag Paswan will inherit only his father's financial assets by law. Ram Vilas Paswan, a veteran Dalit leader and a political heavyweight from Bihar, passed away in October 2020 after prolonged illness.

New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) announced on Tuesday that the bypoll for the Rajya Sabha seat that fell vacant on the death of BJP MP Hardwar Dubey will be held on 15 September. Dubey passed away on 26 June.

Maharashtra minister for tribal development, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vijaykumar Gavit invited trouble for himself within his own ranks, when on Monday he was heard saying that daily consumption of fish would enable one to get eyes as beautiful as former Miss World and Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. A video of the remarks by state tribal minister Vijaykumar Gavit, made at a public function in north Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district, has gone viral on social media. “People who consume fish on a daily basis develop smooth skin and their eyes sparkle.

Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar will not make the «mistake» of joining hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party, like his nephew Ajit Pawar. NCP leader Ajit Pawar joined the Eknath Shinde-BJP government in Maharashtra last month as the deputy chief minister. Eight other NCP MLAs also took oath as cabinet ministers along with him.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday claimed that communal riots would be engineered in Madhya Pradesh ahead of assembly elections as the ruling BJP knows that it is facing a tough challenge. The former chief minister was speaking at `Vidhik Vimarsh 2023', a gathering of lawyers organised by the state Congress's Legal and Human Rights Cell here.

Fadnavis was a tolerant person earlier, but his frustration after being made the deputy chief minister resulted in him becoming intolerant and arrogant, the party claimed in an editorial in its mouthpiece 'Saamana'. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however, objected to the language used in the editorial piece in the Marathi daily, whose editor is Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, while the executive editor is party's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut.Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule said one should maintain decorum while criticising political opponents. He also warned of filing a complaint against 'Saamana', and said its «vitriol» needs to stop.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar on Friday referred the three proposed bills, which seek to replace British-era criminal laws, to the Standing Committee on Home Affairs for examination. Rajya Sabha has asked the Standing Committee to submit its report within three months.

Aam Admi Party leader Raghav Chadha has changed his bio on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) after being suspended from Rajya Sabha on charges of “gross violation of rules, misconduct, defiant attitude and contemptuous conduct", pending investigation by privileges committee. The new X bio of Raghav Chadha now reads, ‘Suspended Member of Parliament, India’.

Hindustan Times. Raghav Chadha had proposed the constitution of a Select Committee to consider the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and had included the names of the four MPs. The now suspended AAP MP took to ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter, to post a video questioning the suspension order.

AAP MP Sushil Kumar Rinku on Friday came to the Parliament complex in chains to protest against his suspension from Lok Sabha and that of his party colleagues Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha from Rajya Sabha. «Democracy in the country is in danger today. The central government has tied all the four pillars of democracy with chains of slavery,» Rinku told PTI.

Kavitha has said she would be contesting from the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, where she lost to sitting BJP MP D Arvind in the last general elections, in the 2024 polls. Speaking to reporters here on Thursday, she hit out at the incumbent MP saying he did not do anything for the development of Nizamabad. «Nizamabad MP asks me from where I would contest in the next general elections.

Kejriwal and Sanjay Singh's plea seeking a stay on the criminal defamation proceedings against them filed by the Gujarat University in connection with remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's degree. While refusing to grant a stay on the defamation proceedings underway at a metropolitan court here against the two leaders, Justice Samir Dave noted that both of them had earlier given an assurance to the sessions court that they will remain present before the metropolitan court to record their statement.

renewable energy minister R K Singh said. He added that the Central Electricity Authority had in January 2023 suggested no retirement or re-purposing of coal-based power stations will be done before 2030, considering the expected energy demand scenario and availability of capacity in future.

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday referred to the privileges committee the complaints of MPs alleging AAP MP Raghav Chadha named them in a house panel without their consent in violation of rules. A Rajya Sabha bulletin said the chairman had received complaints from MPs Sasmit Patra, S Phangnon Konyak, M Thambidurai and Narhari Amin, who alleged breach of privilege by Raghav Chadha for inter-alia including their names without their consent in violation of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business by moving a motion on August 7.

New Delhi: The ministry of road transport and highways has been making remarkable strides in the construction of highways, with a notable increase in the length of highways built over the last five years when compared to figures from fiscal year 2013-14, said Nitin Gadkari, minister of road transport and highways. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, the minister said that the length of highways constructed in recent years has surpassed the numbers achieved during the fiscal year 2013-14, indicating a strong upward trend.

₹1,159 crore in income tax for the fiscal year 2021–2022, according to ANI's news report. In a written response to a question in the Rajya Sabha, state minister of finance Pankaj Chaudhary, according to the news report, provided information on the income tax paid by the BCCI as well as its revenue and expenditures for the previous five years based on the reports submitted. "In the financial year 2020-21, BCCI paid ₹844.92 crore in income tax, slightly lower than ₹882.29 crore paid in 2019-20.

₹17.99 trillion from various sources. This figure represents about 40% of the total net size of the Union Budget for that year, which amounts to ₹45.03 trillion.

House Piyush Goyal alleged in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that the Opposition is conspiring against India with Chinese media and sought to know the relationship between Rahul Gandhi and the Communist Party of China, leading to 14 parties writing to the Chairman that this is a breach of privilege and action should be taken against him. The New York Times piece on news website allegedly getting funding from China through American businessman Neville Roy Singham was raked up by BJP member Sudhanshu Trivedi in the Rajya Sabha while the Treasury and the Opposition benches were engaged in the now routine tussle of which Rule should be invoked to discuss the Manipur situation. He alleged that there is an anti-India nexus where NewsClick's funding is coming to India via Shanghai-Chicago route.

opposition alliance INDIA have given a privilege notice against leader of the house in Rajya Sabha Piyush Goyal over his certain remarks against some opposition leaders. Among the parties whose leaders gave the notice are the Congress, TMC, AAP, RJD, DMK, RJD, JDU, NCP and the Left parties. Sources said leaders of INDIA parties gave the notice to the Rajya Sabha chairman complaining against Goyal's certain remarks made while he was speaking on the issue of media portal 'NewsClick' receiving funding from China-linked firms allegedly to spread Chinese propaganda. Goyal questioned the relationship between the opposition parties and the news portal 'NewsClick', which has been accused in a New York Times report of receiving funding from China-linked firms. «Today at 1300 hrs, the floor leaders of INDIA parties in the Rajya Sabha submitted a privilege motion against Leader of the House Piyush Goyal for addressing the Opposition as all of them 'traitors',» Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said on Twitter. «Nothing less than an apology from him on the floor of the House, when it is in order, will do,» the Congress leader, who is a signatory to the privilege notice, said.