Punjab set to allow home delivery of liquor, likely to impose Covid-19 cess

Excise from sale of liquor is one of the principal sources of revenue for the state government

Legislative memories

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, who is also vice-president, and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla met at the former’s residence on Wednesday to mark the 68th anniversary of the first sitting of both the Houses of Parliament on May 13, 1952. The Council of States was constituted on May 13 of the same year and given the “Indian name of Rajya Sabha in 1954”, Naidu told Birla. On the first day of the Council of States, 197 members, including nine women, were administered the oath. The first member to take the oath was N Gopalaswami Ayyengar, then minister