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Schedule Of Committee Meetings
Briefing by the representatives of the Ministry of Finance (Department of Economic Affairs) on the Bill ‘The Securities Markets Code, 2025’. ...
Briefing/Evidence on The Constitution (One Hundred and Thirtieth Amendment) Bill, 2025; The Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization (Amendment) Bill, 2025; and The Government of Union Territories (Amendment) Bill, 2025 by the following: (i) Chairperson...
Oral evidence of the representatives of (i) Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND), Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue); and (ii) Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) on the subject...
(1) Consideration and adoption of the following Four (04) Draft Reports:- i. Sixteenth Report (18th Lok Sabha) on Action Taken by the Government on the Observation/Recommendation contained in the Sixth Report of the Standing Committee on Chemicals...
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Mr. Vaghul, our first Chairperson, passed away on Saturday.  I write this note to express my deep gratitude to him, and to celebrate his life.  And what a life he lived! Mr. Vaghul and I at his residence       ...
Tanvi Vipra - May 10, 2024
Last week, the Power Finance Corporation reported that state-owned power distribution companies across the country made financial losses amounting to Rs 68,832 crore in 2022-23.  This is four times higher than the losses witnessed in 2021-22, and roughly equivalent to the annual budget of a sta...
Niranjana Menon - August 8, 2023
Discussion on the first no-confidence motion of the 17th Lok Sabha began today.  No-confidence motions and confidence motions are trust votes, used to test or demonstrate the support of Lok Sabha for the government in power.  Article 75(3) of the Constitution states that the government is ...
In the last few years, several states have enacted laws to curb cheating in examinations, especially those for recruitment in public service commissions.   According to news reports, incidents of cheating and paper leaks have occurred on several occasions in Uttarakhand, including during t...
Tanvi Vipra - Dec 6, 2022
The Uttarakhand Assembly concluded a two-day session on November 30, 2022.  The session was scheduled to be held over five days.  In this post we look at the legislative business that was carried out in the Assembly, and the state of state legislatures.  13 Bills were int...
In the winter session, members of Parliament (MPs) debated and passed legislation on diverse subjects, including allowing 100% foreign direct investment in insurance, increasing the rural employment guarantee from 100 to 125 days, opening the atomic energy sector to private players, and imposing a c...
Parliament passed a new atomic energy law towards the end of 2025. The legislation, titled the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India, opens the atomic energy sector, previously the exclusive domain of government entities, to private players. Opposition MPs u...
In March 2005, the Jharkhand police stormed an aeroplane about to take off from Ranchi’s Birsa Munda Airport. They were looking for two newly elected MLAs, Hari Narayan Rai, 42, and Enos Ekka, 35. Finding the MLAs was critical, as they were the missing pieces in deciding the new Chief Minister...
Winter session is set to be fiery – a new VP as Rajya Sabha chair, decision on impeachment of two HC judges pending, at least 10 bills and electoral rolls to debate. But will Parliament function? That’s the real question The winter session of Parliament begins today with more than 700...
The city of Moscow has a link to the political history of Bihar. A decision made here would become the catalyst for Nitish Kumar’s first full tenure as Bihar Chief Minister. On May 22, 2005, then President APJ Abdul Kalam arrived in Moscow, the first stop on an 11-day multi-c...