Parliament 2016

Apple has strongly opposed the British parliament against the Online Safety Bill that proposes changes to the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 that would allow the government to force companies to install technology to scan the contents of encrypted messaging apps and services.

A total of 24,134 people were arrested and faced trial under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) between 2016 and 2020 and only 212 of them were convicted, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday.

Rs 2,000 notes have not been printed in the last two years, the Finance Ministry said on Monday in parliament to a question on why the currency notes introduced after demonetization in 2016 were hardly in circulation now.

Mary Kom donated Rs 1 lakh to the PM National Relief Fund to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to give up the decades-old subsidy on food sold at the parliament canteen, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced on Thursday. The decision, however, seemed exactly similar to one announced in 2016.

Facebook is much better than it was in 2016 at tackling election interference but cannot guarantee it will not be used to undermine European Parliament elections in May, Zuckerberg said.

Facebook has been under pressure around the world since the US election in 2016 to stop the use of fake accounts and other types of deception to sway public opinion.

A parliamentary panel on Monday asked micro-blogging site Twitter to address issues in real-time and engage more with the Election Commission ahead of general elections to ensure the outcome is not influenced like they were reportedly done in the 2016 US presidential polls.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, which seeks to provide citizenship to six minority groups from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, will be presented in Rajya Sabha today. The controversial bill has led to massive protests in the northeast. The government is expected to make one last effort to push this Bill through the Rajya Sabha today.

The Bharatiya Janta Party may increasingly find it difficult to push through the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 fearing the risk of losing its allies in the Northeast, party sources have told NDTV. The region has been witnessing wide scale protests ever since the controversial Bill was introduced in Parliament earlier this month and passed by th...

After Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma threatened to sever ties with the BJP over the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in parliament, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, another BJP partner in the northeast, has expressed his dissatisfaction.

Ahead of the general elections, a bill to provide 10 per cent quota in jobs and education to candidates who belong to the economically weaker sections in the general category, was passed by the Lok Sabha today. While many opposition parties dubbed the government's move a "political gimmick" in the four-and-half-hour debate, most backed the bill, wh...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration hasn't assessed the impact of one of history's most sweeping changes in currency policy. "No Madam," was the junior finance minister's reply to a lawmaker's question in parliament Dec. 14 on whether the government had studied the aftereffects of the move in November 2016 to invalidate almost all of the ...

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh has said in parliament. But it was his ministry that had in March placed in parliament provisional data on farmer suicides.

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, the agriculture minister has said in parliament at a time a farm crisis over debts and poor crop prices has hit several states.

Apple has strongly opposed the British parliament against the Online Safety Bill that proposes changes to the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) 2016 that would allow the government to force companies to install technology to scan the contents of encrypted messaging apps and services.

A total of 24,134 people were arrested and faced trial under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) between 2016 and 2020 and only 212 of them were convicted, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday.

Rs 2,000 notes have not been printed in the last two years, the Finance Ministry said on Monday in parliament to a question on why the currency notes introduced after demonetization in 2016 were hardly in circulation now.

Mary Kom donated Rs 1 lakh to the PM National Relief Fund to help combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Lawmakers have unanimously agreed to give up the decades-old subsidy on food sold at the parliament canteen, BJP MP Rajiv Pratap Rudy announced on Thursday. The decision, however, seemed exactly similar to one announced in 2016.

Facebook is much better than it was in 2016 at tackling election interference but cannot guarantee it will not be used to undermine European Parliament elections in May, Zuckerberg said.

Facebook has been under pressure around the world since the US election in 2016 to stop the use of fake accounts and other types of deception to sway public opinion.

A parliamentary panel on Monday asked micro-blogging site Twitter to address issues in real-time and engage more with the Election Commission ahead of general elections to ensure the outcome is not influenced like they were reportedly done in the 2016 US presidential polls.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, which seeks to provide citizenship to six minority groups from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, will be presented in Rajya Sabha today. The controversial bill has led to massive protests in the northeast. The government is expected to make one last effort to push this Bill through the Rajya Sabha today.

The Bharatiya Janta Party may increasingly find it difficult to push through the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 fearing the risk of losing its allies in the Northeast, party sources have told NDTV. The region has been witnessing wide scale protests ever since the controversial Bill was introduced in Parliament earlier this month and passed by th...

After Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma threatened to sever ties with the BJP over the passage of Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in parliament, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, another BJP partner in the northeast, has expressed his dissatisfaction.

Ahead of the general elections, a bill to provide 10 per cent quota in jobs and education to candidates who belong to the economically weaker sections in the general category, was passed by the Lok Sabha today. While many opposition parties dubbed the government's move a "political gimmick" in the four-and-half-hour debate, most backed the bill, wh...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration hasn't assessed the impact of one of history's most sweeping changes in currency policy. "No Madam," was the junior finance minister's reply to a lawmaker's question in parliament Dec. 14 on whether the government had studied the aftereffects of the move in November 2016 to invalidate almost all of the ...

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, Agriculture Minister Radhamohan Singh has said in parliament. But it was his ministry that had in March placed in parliament provisional data on farmer suicides.

The government has no data on farmer suicides in the last three years, the agriculture minister has said in parliament at a time a farm crisis over debts and poor crop prices has hit several states.