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3 min read Last Updated : Sep 18 2023 | 11:18 PM IST
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As the Rajya Sabha on Monday started a discussion on Parliament's 75-year journey, Leader of the House and Union Minister Piyush Goyal called for making India a corruption-free and developed nation.
When the House assembled for the five-day session, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar lauded the prime minister's vision for the successful G20 Summit.
He also announced that the House will discuss 'Parliamentary Journey of 75 Years Starting from Samvidhan Sabha -Achievements, Experiences, Memories, and Learnings'.
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Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday announced that the panel of vice-chairpersons has been reconstituted with 50 per cent of women parliamentarians and that the percentage may go higher in future.
The eight-member panel will now have four women members, including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs Kanta Kardam, Sumitra Balmik and Geeta alias Chandraprabha; and Biju Janata Dal's Mamata Mohanta.
Dhankhar made the announcement in the Upper House on the first day of the Special Session of the Parliament.
"The House members are informed that the panel of vice-chairpersons has been reconstituted with effect from September 13, 2023. Honourable members will be happy to note that 50% of the vice chairpersons happen to be women," said Dhankhar.
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Train traffic on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route resumed slowly around Monday noon nearly 12 hours after it was halted when the Narmada river was flowing above the danger mark between Bharuch and Ankleshwar stations in Gujarat, Western Railway said.
Sharing an update on the situation, Western Railway's Chief PRO Sumit Thakur told PTI that the operation of trains on the route from bridge no 502 resumed slowly at around 11:30 am on Monday as the water level of Narmada river receded below the danger mark.
The operation of trains on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad route between Bharuch and Ankleshwar stations under the Vadodara division stopped after Narmada river waters surged above the danger mark at brigade no. 502 at around 11:50 pm on Sunday.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday alleged the Congress has "stolen" the theme song of Imran Khan-founded Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf for its Jan Aakrosh Yatra campaign in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, inviting a sharp attack from the opposition party.
The Yatra is scheduled to set out from September 19 from seven places in the state, where assembly elections are due in November this year.
The row erupted after MP BJP unit secretary Rahul Kothari alleged the Congress has copied Chalo, Chalo Imran Ke Sath, which he said is the theme song of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, in its recently-released song Chalo, Chalo Congress Ke Sang Chalo Chalo for the Jan Aakrosh Yatra.
The state BJP shared the video of the theme song of the Pakistan-based party along with the Congress' poll campaign song on its official X account.
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The Supreme Court agreed to hear on Monday a plea challenging a Madras High Court order staying the sale and manufacture of Ganesha idols made of plaster of Paris.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra agreed to hear the matter at the end of the board of listed cases after senior advocate Shyam Divan cited urgency in the matter owing to the Ganesh Chaturthi festival on Tuesday.
"This is a matter which requires urgent hearing. The division bench of the high court has passed the order on Sunday evening by which it had stayed the single judge's order permitting the sale of Ganesha idols made of plaster of Paris," Divan said.
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State-run Malaysian rice importer Bernas will also be negotiating with other suppliers like Vietnam, Thailand And Cambodia, he said.
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One person was killed and five others were critically injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a private car on Monday in Odisha's Puri district, police said.
The accident took place this morning on Puri-Konark marine-drive road when the car collided with the state-run bus, a senior officer said.
"One occupant of the car died on the spot while the five injured are critical. The condition of the Mo Bus driver is also serious as the vehicle crashed into a roadside tree after the accident," he said.
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Aam Aadmi Party issued a Three Line Whip to its MPs in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, asking them to be present in Parliament during the Special Session from September 18 to 22.
The whip to the party's Rajya Sabha MPs said that very important issues will be taken up in the Upper House in the upcoming special session.
"All members of the Aam Aadmi Party in the Rajya Sabha are hereby, informed that some very important issues will be taken up in the Rajya Sabha in the upcoming special session. In view of this, all members of the Aam Aadmi Party are requested to be positively present in the house from 11 AM onwards until the adjournment of the House from 18th September to 22nd September 2023 and support the stand of the party" it said.
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As the Parliament session began Monday, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'visionary' leadership for the success of the G20 Summit.
Birla said Modi's 'vision and guidance' led to a consensus on sensitive issues in the New Delhi Declaration issued by the G20 leaders.
In his remarks soon after the House met, Birla congratulated the nation for successfully conducting the G20 summit in the country.
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No new Nipah positive cases were reported in the state since September 16 with 61 more samples of persons who were in the high risk contact list turning up negative for the virus, Kerala government said on Monday.
State Health Minister Veena George told reporters that results of the genomic sequencing, to confirm there was no second wave of the virus outbreak, would be available by evening or tomorrow.
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US military officials are searching for a missing F-35 jet after a "mishap" caused its pilot to eject on Sunday afternoon, Fox News reported.
Joint Base Charleston said on Facebook that the aircraft was a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II belonging to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. The pilot ejected safely and was transported to a local medical centre.
As per Fox News, the base is now working with Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort to help locate the missing aircraft.
Emergency response teams have been deployed to find the jet.
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The CBI has booked Mumbai-based Unity Infraprojects Ltd, its then CMD Kishore Krishnarao Avarsekar and others for allegedly defrauding a consortium of banks to the tune of Rs 3,847.58 crore, officials said on Monday.
The CBI took action on a complaint of the SBI, one of the consortium members which alleged that the fraud took place at its Commercial Branch in Mumbai where the accused persons siphoned the "Bank's funds by doing fictitious transactions, manipulated and fudged books of accounts with an objective to defraud and cheat the bank and to gain unlawfully at the cost of the Banks' funds".
The account of the 44-year old infrastructure company, which had taken Rs 3,800 crore from 23 lenders against moveable and non-moveable assets besides personal and corporate guarantees, had become a non performing asset on June 24, 2014. Five years later it was declared a fraud after forensic audit pointed irregularities.
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The relative humidity at 8:30 am was recorded at 78 per cent, according to data shared by the India Meteorological Department.
The Safdarjung Observatory, the city's primary weather station, logged a minimum temperature of 25.3 degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the year.
The maximum temperature is expected to hover around 33 degrees Celsius. The IMD has forecast generally cloudy sky with light rain later in the day.
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Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has constituted the full court comprising all 15 judges of the Supreme Court to take up a set of nine challenges to the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 on Monday, Dawn reported.
Dawn is a Pakistani English-language newspaper.
The Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Act 2023 requires the formation of benches on constitutional matters of public importance by a committee of three senior judges of the court.
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A delegation from Tamil Nadu led by Water resources Minister Durai Murugan is in New Delhi to meet Union water resources minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat to discuss the Cauvery water sharing issue, which has been a bone of contention of late with neighbouring Karnataka.
The governments of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have been locked in a protracted tussle over the sharing of Cauvery waters. The river is seen as a major source of sustenance for the people in either state.
The Centre formed the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) on June 2, 1990, to adjudicate disputes between Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Puducherry with respect to their individual water-sharing capacities.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will start a discussion in Lok Sabha on Parliament's 75-year journey on Monday.
Official sources said he is expected to speak in the House soon after it meets on the first day of the session at 11 am.
The prime minister will start the discussion on "Parliamentary journey of 75 years starting from Samvidhan Sabha - Achievements, Experiences, Memories and Learnings," the sources said.
It is going to be the last day of business in the existing building before the legislature shifts to the adjacent new building on Tuesday.
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Several opposition leaders on Sunday criticised the bill on the appointment and service conditions of the chief election commissioner and election commissioners at an all-party meeting as "anti-Constitution" and "anti-democratic", PTI said citing sources.
Official sources said there is a rethink in the government on whether to take up the bill for discussion and passage in the five-day session, beginning Monday.
The Chief Election Commissioner and other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term of Office) Bill, 2023 had featured among the four bills listed by the government a few days back for being taken up in the session.
However, criticism, including from a few former CECs and ECs, of some of its provisions might have made the government to reconsider its decision.
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First Published: Sep 18 2023 | 9:42 AM IST
