The Lok Sabha was adjourned sine die on Friday, ending the Budget session that began on January 31. As soon as the House met at 12 noon after an adjournment over remarks by Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla read out his valedictory remarks and adjourned the House sine die â indefinitely…
Congress party chief Mallikarjun Kharge attacked the Prime Minister Narendra-Modi-led Union government on Friday, after the Parliament passed the Waqf Amendment Bill 2025. Kharge, the leader of the Opposition (LoP) in Rajya Sabha, accused the government of taking a “negative stand.” “It is their interpretation, we kept our views on the bill in front of…
Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi is set to present the partyâs arguments during the debate on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, following its introduction by Union Minority Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. The opposition has strongly criticised the bill, labeling it âunconstitutionalâ and accusing the BJP…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on March 28 that the Waqf (Amendment) Bill will be reintroduced in the ongoing Budget session of Parliament. The session in its second leg ends on April 4 with only four business days left. The contentious Bill was referred to a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) in August 2024. The…
New Delhi: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said the new Income Tax Bill, currently under review by a select committee, will be taken up for discussion in the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament. Speaking in the Lok Sabha during a discussion of the Finance Bill, Sitharaman said the select committee has been mandated to…
New Delhi: The government is likely to withdraw the 6% âequalization levyâ introduced in 2016 on online advertisement services rendered to Indian businesses by offshore digital economy firms through amendments to the Finance Bill, 2025, to be taken up by Parliament this week, two persons familiar with the development said. In August, the government had…
The Congress on Monday claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came up with a âcompletely fakeâ issue to get Parliament adjourned and divert attention from the very serious matter of Delhi High Court Justice Yashwant Varma’s conduct. The BJP members in the Lok Sabha raised the issue of reservation for Muslims in government contracts…
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Member of Parliament Misa Bharti has raised questions on the âphysical and mentalâ health of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Bharti, daughter of former CM Lalu Prasad Yadav, asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to think in whose hands have they have given Bihar. âDuring the…
Shaktikanta Das, who recently retired as Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, was appointed as a principal secretary to the Prime Minister, making him the second most important government bureaucrat in the country. Just as retired judges taking up political appointments is perceived as undermining judicial independence, post-retirement appointments of central bank governors could evoke…
The Income Tax Act of 1961 has undergone innumerable amendments since its inception (4,000, as stated by the finance minister in Parliament). Historically, successive governments have used tax as an instrument to incentivize specific industries, promote investments in certain regions, or to encourage foreign exchange earnings. As a result, numerous provisions were added over the…
