The Lok Sabha has been adjourned for the day.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to address the Lok Sabha on the Presidential Rule in Manipur on Wednesday.

The Opposition has walked out of Lok Sabha.

The Centre will provide all financial support to Manipur for faster economic development, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said in the Lok Sabha.

Proceedings in the Lok Sabha have been adjourned for 10 minutes amid chaos over Manipur.

The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will not have their sitting on March 13, the eve of Holi, following a decision taken by the business advisory committees of both Houses on the matter.

The two houses have already declared a holiday on March 14, 2025, for Holi.

According to a bulletin issued by the Rajya Sabha secretariat, members have been informed that as unanimously decided in the meeting of the Business Advisory Committee and announced in the House, the sitting of the Rajya Sabha fixed for Thursday, March 13, 2025, has been cancelled.

"Accordingly, there will be no sitting of the House on that day," the bulletin further said.

Congress Lok Sabha MP Gowaal K Padavi Tuesday said Chinese AI app DeepSeek should be banned in India for hurting national sentiments by not answering questions on whether Arunachal Pradesh is part of India.

He also asked the Ministry of External Affairs to issue notice to China in this regard.

Raising the matter during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha, the MP from Maharashtra said when the DeepSeek app was asked about Tibet, it answered that the region has always been under the control of China.

When asked about Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh being part of India, the app gave a detailed answer in the affirmative.

"But when it was asked if Arunachal Pradesh is part of India, DeepSeek refused to give any specific answer and said sorry it is beyond my current scope, let's talk about something else... These kind of answers by foreign technology has no place in India and should be banned," Padavi said.

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge's remark in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday - about his party having come prepared to hold the ruling BJP to account - triggered a furious row after MPs from the latter objected to a certain "derogatory" word,

Union Minister Nityanand Rai introduces The Immigration and Foreigners Bill, 2025 in Lok Sabha. The bill seeks to streamline various services related to immigration and foreigners, including their entry, exit and stay in the country.

Mr Rai asserted that while tourists were welcome to come to India, it was the government's responsibility to ensure peace and sovereignty of the nation remain intact.

Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Mr Rai said, "On behalf of Amit Shah, I propose that the requirement of passport or travel document be settled in respect of persons entering and exiting India, certain powers be granted to the Central Government and to regulate matters related to foreigners including requirement of visa and registration and permission be given to establish a bill dealing with matters connected or incidental to them."

The Lok Sabha witnessed a heated exchange of words between the treasury and opposition benches, over the disbursal of funds under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) to Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal.

The chaos and sloganeering, which broke out after Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee's pointed charge at the Centre, saw the two sides trading blows at each other.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal stood up to raise a strong objection to his remarks while Speaker Om Birla also advised the Trinamool Congress lawmaker to exercise restraint in the House.

The trigger for the charged atmosphere was Kalyan Banerjee's statement – 'who made you a minister'.

Congress MP Manickam Tagore on Tuesday condemned Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's remarks, calling it "very unparliamentary" and unfortunate.

"It is very unfortunate. The language of the Union Education Minister was very unparliamentary. It is good to see that the Speaker prevailed upon the Minister, and he withdrew the statement. The way BJP and RSS degrade the language of Parliament shows the arrogance of BJP," he said.

The Trinamool Congress and Congress parties have expressed strong support for the DMK's demand for Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan to apologize for his remarks on Tamil Nadu's language policy.

Kalyan Banerjee, a senior Trinamool leader, said the language used by Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is "unexpected". "A central minister using such a language for the people of Tamil Nadu has downgraded the people of the state. Either he should seek an apology in the House, or he should be removed as a minister from the cabinet. PM Modi should hear what his ministers are doing...TMC stands in support for DMK and the people of Tamil Nadu," he said.

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram also weighed in on the matter, emphasising Tamil Nadu's stance on the issue. "Tamil Nadu is very clear that a two-language curriculum serves us very well. Tamil preserves our identity and is our mother tongue, English is our link language to the world of commerce and science... we don't need a third compulsory language," he said. 

The Immigration and Foreigners Bill 2025 is likely to be introduced in Lok Sabha today. The bill aims to modernise and consolidate India's immigration laws.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to move for leave to introduce a Bill to confer upon the Central Government certain powers to provide for the requirement of passports or other travel documents in respect of persons entering into and exiting from India and for regulating matters related to foreigners, including the requirement of visa and registration and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Rajya Sabha adjourned. Will meet again at 12 noon.

Members of Parliament from Kerala (UDF) held a protest in the Parliament in support of ASHA workers, demanding that their honorarium be raised to Rs 21,000 and that they receive Rs 5 lakh as retirement benefits.

DMK Member of Parliament Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and other DMK MPs hold a protest in the Parliament over National Education Policy (NEP), the three-language issue and against Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over his remark in the Parliament on the three-language issue.
"The Union government is withholding the money that has to be given to Tamil Nadu, saying that we have to sign the three-language policy and the NEP," said Ms Karunanidhi. "They are ruining the future of the children of Tamil Nadu. They have no right to withhold the funds which have to come to the children of Tamil Nadu. Yesterday, he (Dharmendra Pradhan) responded in a very abusive way, saying that we are dishonest and that the people of Tamil Nadu are uncivilised. This is not the language we expect him to be speaking. This is totally undemocratic. We expect an apology," she added.

The three-language policy, a part of the National Education Policy, remains to be a point of contention with the DMK giving an adjournment motion notice to discuss the issue in the Parliament. Ahead of the session, DMK MPs staged a protest outside the Parliament.