Rajya Sabha 2018

Twenty-one of the 661 high court judges appointed since 2018 belong to the Scheduled Caste (SC) category and 12 to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

The government spent Rs 408.46 crore on the publicity of its schemes through the Central Bureau of Communications in 2022-23, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

A total of 80,701 health and wellness centres (AB-HWCs) have been operationalised across the country under the Ayushman Bharat scheme launched on April 14, 2018, Rajya Sabha was told on Tuesday.

Minister of State Home affairs Nityanand Rai on Wednesday informed Rajya Sabha that in Jammu and Kashmir a total of 630 terrorists were killed in 400 encounters and 85 security personnel martyred from May 2018 to June 2021.

Protests over farm laws are limited to only "one state" and farmers are being "instigated", Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in parliament today, as the massive agitation on the borders of Delhi entered 72nd day. The minister's "one state" attack refers to the protest led by farmers mainly from Punjab, a Congress-ruled state, as...

The government will explore the use of blockchain technology for digital economy, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said on Tuesday. The latest comments come just days after the government listed a bill titled “The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021” that is to provide a framework for creation ...

Nearly 1,200 people across the country were detained under the tringent National Security Act (NSA) by police in 2017 and 2018, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said on Monday. Of these, 563 are still in custody, the minister said in the Rajya Sabha.

Around 15.7 lakh public grievances were received last year against various central government departments, Union minister Jitendra Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu Wednesday ordered members of AIDMK and DMK to leave the House for the day when they continued to protest in the Well over the Cauvery issue.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan met BJP president Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday in an attempt to tackle a growing conflict between the allies just months before the general election. The hour-long meeting however, remained inconclusive, according to reports.

The Congress is running away from a discussion on the Rafale deal in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel said today while asserting that the government is ready for a debate on any issue.

Lok Sabha elections are due next year and the assembly polls were billed as a semi-final before the general elections. Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said farmers, youths, traders and women are "not happy" with the BJP's policies due to which the party seems to be loosing ground in the states it ruled.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to ensure that the anti-trafficking bill was taken up for discussion in the winter session of Parliament. The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 was passed by the Lok Sabha in July this year and was pending for discussion ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yesterday thanked his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao for the support extended by his party Telangana Rashtra Samith (TRS) to NDA candidate for the election of Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

Indian banks reported a total loss of about Rs 70,000 crore due to frauds during the last three fiscals up to March 2018, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

Twenty-one of the 661 high court judges appointed since 2018 belong to the Scheduled Caste (SC) category and 12 to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

The government spent Rs 408.46 crore on the publicity of its schemes through the Central Bureau of Communications in 2022-23, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

A total of 80,701 health and wellness centres (AB-HWCs) have been operationalised across the country under the Ayushman Bharat scheme launched on April 14, 2018, Rajya Sabha was told on Tuesday.

Minister of State Home affairs Nityanand Rai on Wednesday informed Rajya Sabha that in Jammu and Kashmir a total of 630 terrorists were killed in 400 encounters and 85 security personnel martyred from May 2018 to June 2021.

Protests over farm laws are limited to only "one state" and farmers are being "instigated", Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said in parliament today, as the massive agitation on the borders of Delhi entered 72nd day. The minister's "one state" attack refers to the protest led by farmers mainly from Punjab, a Congress-ruled state, as...

The government will explore the use of blockchain technology for digital economy, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said on Tuesday. The latest comments come just days after the government listed a bill titled “The Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021” that is to provide a framework for creation ...

Nearly 1,200 people across the country were detained under the tringent National Security Act (NSA) by police in 2017 and 2018, Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said on Monday. Of these, 563 are still in custody, the minister said in the Rajya Sabha.

Around 15.7 lakh public grievances were received last year against various central government departments, Union minister Jitendra Singh told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu Wednesday ordered members of AIDMK and DMK to leave the House for the day when they continued to protest in the Well over the Cauvery issue.

Union Minister Ram Vilas Paswan and his son Chirag Paswan met BJP president Amit Shah in Delhi on Thursday in an attempt to tackle a growing conflict between the allies just months before the general election. The hour-long meeting however, remained inconclusive, according to reports.

The Congress is running away from a discussion on the Rafale deal in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Vijay Goel said today while asserting that the government is ready for a debate on any issue.

Lok Sabha elections are due next year and the assembly polls were billed as a semi-final before the general elections. Senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said farmers, youths, traders and women are "not happy" with the BJP's policies due to which the party seems to be loosing ground in the states it ruled.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to ensure that the anti-trafficking bill was taken up for discussion in the winter session of Parliament. The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018 was passed by the Lok Sabha in July this year and was pending for discussion ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar yesterday thanked his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao for the support extended by his party Telangana Rashtra Samith (TRS) to NDA candidate for the election of Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha.

Indian banks reported a total loss of about Rs 70,000 crore due to frauds during the last three fiscals up to March 2018, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.