Rajya Sabha today saw disruptions as members from the opposition benches raised concerns related to the death of Rohith Vermula, a dalit student of Hyderabad University last month. While a discussion on the situation arising in the Central Institutions of higher education with specific reference to ...

The Budget Session began yesterday and is scheduled to meet till 13 May, 2016.

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports that parliament met for its seventh sitting of the Session on Friday (4 December). Discussion on the High Court and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service (Amendment) Bill was initiated in Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to ensure uniformit...

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports that the Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha. The Bill seeks to make the process of arbitration simpler to ensure timely disposal of cases. The Lower House discussed the Bureau of Indian Standards Bill. The Bill replac...

Parliament met for the fifth sitting of the Winter Session today.

PRS Legislative Research’ Trina Roy reports the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament last week.

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Both Houses of Parliament faced repeated disruptions and were unable to take up scheduled business for the day. Opposition parties in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha continued to raise demands insisting upon the resignation of the Minister of External Affairs....

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Parliament met for the first sitting of the Monsoon Session yesterday (Tuesday 21 July 2015). The session is scheduled to run until 13 th August, 2015 and will consist of 18 sittings. Lok Sabha adjourned after obituary notices were read. The Delhi High C...

PRS Legislative Research Trina Roy reports: Today Lok Sabha today passed the Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets (Imposition of Tax) Bill, 2015 . The Bill penalizes the concealment of foreign income, and provides for criminal liability for attempting to evade tax in relation to foreign income. At ...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Lok Sabha passed the Constitutional (122ndAmendment) Bill, 2014 to rollout the Goods and Services Tax (GST). 19 members had participated in the debate yesterday. The Finance Minister in his reply today addressed the concerns of the members with regard to...

During the week, financial business continued to be the focus in both the Houses. While Lok Sabha discussed Demands for Grants of Ministries, Rajya Sabha undertook discussion on the Working of Ministries.

PRS Legislative Research Trina Roy reports: The Minister of Home Affairs replied to the debate on the Demands for Grants his Ministry. The Minister, Mr. Rajnath Singh addressed, among other things, issues related to police modernisation, left wing extremism, insurgency in the north east, crimes agai...

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: In Lok Sabha today, during Zero Hour several members expressed their condolences to the families who have been affected by the earthquake in Nepal. The Minister at the end of the discussion replied to the debate informing the members about the Government...

The Rights of Transgender Persons Bill, 2014, passed by the Rajya Sabha on Friday is the first private member’s bill to get the ujpper house’s approval in the past 45 years. Members of parliament other than ministers are called private members and bills presented by them are known as private member’...

The second half of the Budget Session began this week. Here are the highlights.

PRS Legislative Research’s Trina Roy reports: Rajya Sabha reconvened today for its first sitting after it was prorogued on March 28, 2015. The members in the Upper House decided to unanimously suspend the scheduled business of the day and take up a discussion on farmers’ distress and agrarian crisis...

The Constitution (122nd) Amendment Bill, 2014 which introduces the goods and services tax was introduced in Lok Sabha today. The Bill was not listed in the original list of business for the day but was added through a supplementary notice. Several MPs protested the introduction of the Bill on such a...

Five Bills were passed by Lok Sabha, and three by Rajya Sabha this week. Three of these Bills now have the approval of both Houses. One Bill was withdrawn. In all, of the 37 Bills listed in the agenda for this Session, work on 33 is still left. In terms of productivity, Lok Sabha worked for 86% of i...

The winter session of parliament began today without any business, with 21 more sittings scheduled before 23 December. Shreya Singh at PRS Legislative Research commented that the most likely bills to be passed this session would be the ones replacing the coal mines and textile undertakings ordinance...