Tag: Lok Sabh
LS Passes Amendment Bill To Accord OBC Commission Constitutional Status
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed an amendment bill to give constitutional status to the OBC Commission by approving alternate amendments to those adopted by the Rajya Sabha.....
LS Passes Bill To Restore SC/ST Act
The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2018, which seeks to overturn a Supreme Court order that struck down the provision for immediate arrest.....
Lok Sabha Passes GST Amendment Bills
The Lok Sabha on Thursday passed four bills that seek to amend GST laws which, among other things, seek to simplify the return filing process and increase the upper limit of turnover for opting for composition scheme from Rs 1 crore to Rs 1.5 crore, among others.....
Amit Shah In Lucknow To Fine Tune Lok Sabha Poll Preparedness
BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday arrived on a day-long visit to Lucknow, as he seeks to assuage cadre discontent and improve coordination between the party and the state government ahead of the General Election in 2019.....
Sunil Arora Takes Charge As CEC, Seeks Support For 2019 Polls
Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Sunday assumed charge as the 23rd Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), a day after O.P. Rawat demitted the office, and sought support from "all the stakeholders" for conducting the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.....
President Kovind, Vice President Naidu, PM Modi Pay Tributes To Ambedkar
President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Dalit icon Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar on his death anniversary.....
Congress MP From Bihar Maulana Asrar-ul-Haque Qasmi Dead
Senior Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP from Bihar's Kishanganj, Maulana Asrar-ul-Haque Qasmi, passed away early on Friday following a heart attack. He was 76.....
Yogi Most Incompetent CM, Only Expert At Communal Polarisation: Samajwadi Party
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday called Yogi Adityanath the "most incompetent Chief Minister" and accused him of only trying to fan communal passions in Uttar Pradesh.....
Yashwant Sinha Yet Again Compares Modi With Tughluq
Charging the Narendra Modi government with destroying and compromising all important institutions of democracy, including the Union Cabinet, Parliament, Supreme Court and the media, former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said the only way out for the country is to elect a new government in the coming Lok Sabha polls. ....
BJP Announces Series Of Party Meetings Before 2019 Polls
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will hold a two-day national council meeting -- the largest body of the party -- on January 11-12 here to chalk out its strategy for 2019 Lok Sabha polls.....
