Day: December 10, 2019

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

LS passes bill to extend SC-ST quota in legislatures

8:41 pm December 10, 2019

New Delhi: Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a Constitution amendment bill to extend reservation to SCs and STs in Lok Sabha and state assemblies by another ten years, with Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asserting that the quota in legislatures was required to build a new political leadership of the two communities. The bill was […]

Centre responsible for CAA clashes: Yechury

Yechury slams Centre over Citizenship Bill

8:27 pm December 10, 2019

Kochi: CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Tuesday slammed the Centre over the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, alleging that the BJP-led government brought in the legislation to “sharpen communal polarisation” and “convert” India into a “Hindutva Rashtra.” He saidthe citizenship of a person cannot be determined by religious affiliation. “By doing this, they […]

Protest march against Citizenship (Amendment) Act

Anti-CAB protests rock Northeast

8:22 pm December 10, 2019

Guwahati/Agartala/Itanagar: Large parts of the northeast on Tuesday simmered with protests by students’ unions and Left-democratic organisations against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha. A day before the divisive legislation is tabled in the Rajya Sabha, normal life was paralysed in Assam’s Brahmaputra Valley during the shutdown, led by the All […]

Arms amendment bill in Rajya Sabha

8:18 pm December 10, 2019

New Delhi: A bill which seeks to provide a maximum punishment of life imprisonment for manufacturing and carrying illegal arms was tabled in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. The bill, under which a person will be able to keep two licensed firearms as against three allowed at present, was approved by Lok Sabha a day earlier. […]

Govt extends relaxed norms for onion imports till Jan 31

Onion price rise: NSUI activists protest outside Odisha minister’s house

8:07 pm December 10, 2019

Bhubaneswar: Activists of NSUI, the students’ wing of the Congress, on Tuesday staged a protest outside the residence of Odisha Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Minister R P Swain here over price rise of onions. The National Students Union of India (NSUI) activists held the state government responsible for failing to regulate the price of […]