Lok Sabha Bills

LS clears three crucial codes for workers' welfare subsuming 29 labour laws

The codes envisage setting up of a social security fund for 400 million unorganised workers along with the GIG and platform workers

Parliament passes bill to protect healthcare workers fighting Covid-19

The Epidemic Diseases (Amendment) Bill, 2020, was passed by Lok Sabha by a voice vote

Top headlines: Modi defends farm bills, HSBC, StanChart shares at 22-yr low

From PM Modi again defending farm bills amid Opposition protests, Petronet buying LNG cargo to gold smuggling dropping due to coronavirus, Business Standard bring you the top headlines of the day

Doubts raised on transparency of 2 PM funds; LS passes taxation Bill

The Lok Sabha on Saturday passed Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation and Amendment of Certain Provisions) Bill, 2020 amid counter allegations levelled by both the BJP and the Congress

Agriculture Bills are anti-farmers, says Puducherry CM Narayanasamy

Senior Congress leader and Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy flayed the Centre over the Agriculture Bills on Saturday

SAD to wait for decision on farm bills before mulling about NDA: Report

A senior party leader said the priority of the SAD at the moment was to safeguard the interests of farmers, and not the alliance issue

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Passage of agriculture bills in Lok Sabha to empower farmers: Niti Aayog VC

Welcoming the passage of two bills related to the farm sector in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar said the legislation will empower farmers and have a "colossal impact" on the future of agriculture in the country. The Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill were passed by voice vote, even as the Congress, DMK and Revolutionary Socialist Party members staged a walkout. "The Lok Sabha passes Farmers' Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 & The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 - historic day!," Kumar said in a series of tweets. He further said the legislation will not only empower but also create a fair and free ecosystem for farmers and traders alike, thereby fostering a spirit of friendly competition and improving trader ...

Lok Sabha: Bill to cut MPs' salaries by 30% to meet Covid demand introduced

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi introduced in Lok Sabha a bill that seeks to reduce for one year the salaries of MPs by 30% "to meet the exigencies arising out of Covid-19 pandemic"

Centre lists 23 new Bills for monsoon session of Parliament: Report

One of the ordinances the govern­ment plans to pass as a bill during the 18-day-long session relates to providing preventive measures against violence on healthcare personnel

Bill seeeking extension in upper limit for permitting abortions gets LS nod

The Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 which seeks to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 was passed by a voice vote

Bill to decriminalise minor procedural lapses introduced in Lok Sabha

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, BJD's Bhartruhari Mahtab and Trinamool Congress leader Saugata Roy opposed the introduction of the bill.

The assistance an MP used to get on Bills was laughable: M R Madhavan

M R Madhavan left a finance and investment banking career to set up PRS Legislative Research that looks at governance and the functioning of parliamentary institutions

LS passes Bill to set up unified authority to regulate all IFSC activities

The unified authority will act as a single-window for regulating various financial activities in the IFSC, said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

At the stroke of midnight, Lok Sabha passes Citizenship Amendment Bill

The opposition says the Bill violates the Constitution

9 bills on LS agenda next week, Citizenship Bill may come up on Monday

The Citizenship Amendment Bill is listed for introduction and passage in the House on Monday.

Bill introduced in LS to amend 60-yr-old Arms Act, enhance punishment

The Arms (Amendment) Bill makes provision that a person can have a maximum of two firearms, as against the present norm of three

Govt introduces bill to amend SPG Act in LS, ex-PM families not covered

This comes days after the government withdrew the elite security cover provided to members of the Gandhi family.

Fighting 'brute' majority, opposition considers forming 'people's forums'

Opposition leaders had accused the government of ignoring its demands to discuss key issues facing the country, including on economy, during the Budget session of Parliament

Only Rajasthan and Manipur have passed bills to check lynching: LS informed

Union minister of state for home Nityananda Rai said the Centre, following a Supreme Court directive, has issued two advisories to state governments to check incidents of lynching