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Raghav Chadha cannot claim absolute right to occupy govt bungalow: Court

A Delhi court has said that AAP's Raghav Chadha cannot claim that he has an absolute right to continue to occupy the government bungalow during his entire tenure as a Member of the Rajya Sabha even after the cancellation of allotment. Additional District Judge Sudhanshu Kaushik made the observation while vacating an interim order passed on April 18 that had directed the Rajya Sabha Secretariat not to dispossess Chadha from the government bungalow. Reacting to the order, Chadha said he would be taking appropriate action in law in due course. "The trial court had initially accepted my plea and granted me interim relief. It has now returned my case on a legal technicality, which I am legally advised to state is based on an incorrect understanding of the law. I will be taking appropriate action in law in due course," he said in a statement. In an order passed on October 5, the judge said the argument that the accommodation once made to a Member of Parliament cannot be cancelled under a

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Dhankhar signs Women's Quota Bill; to be placed before Murmu for assent

Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday signed the women's reservation bill as passed by Parliament before it is presented to President Droupadi Murmu for her assent. The Constitution amendment bill was passed by the Lok Sabha with near unanimity and the Rajya Sabha with unanimity during a special session of Parliament earlier this month. The bill, which seeks to give 33 per cent reservation to women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies, will take some time before being implemented as the next census and the subsequent delimitation (redrawing Lok Sabha and Assembly constituencies) exercise will ascertain the seats being earmarked for women candidates. "Hon'ble Chairman, Rajya Sabha has signed the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Amendment) Bill, 2023 as passed by the Houses of Parliament, for being presented to Hon'ble President of India for her assent to the Bill under Article 111 of the Constitution of India," the Vice President Secretariat

India has always backed perspectives of developing nations: RS Dy Chairman

He also added that trade relations between India and Africa have strengthened over the past few years

BJP MP Siroya urges Karnataka, TN CMs to meet, discuss Cauvery issue

He further stated, "I once again urge the two Chief Ministers to meet at the earliest and steer the discussion on this crisis created by Mother Nature in a different direction"

Priyanka Chaturvedi writes to Dhankhar over sloganeering by visitors

"The fact that over fifty visitors were able to raise slogans is a matter of grave concern. In response to this serious breach, Members from the opposition panics walked out in protest"

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Weekend Bites: India-Canada-Khalistan, women's Bill, and drugs on drones

In which we munch over the week's platter of news and views

Penalised for demographic success? Strange case of states south of Godavari

Ahead of a delimitation exercise, the government would be well advised to pre-emptively make offers like greater regional autonomy or an unchanged Rajya Sabha to the southern states, writes T N Ninan

B'wood actresses visit new Parliament, praise Women's Reservation Bill

Tamannah, Shehnaaz Gill, Divya Dutta praised the Union government's decision to introduce the Women's Reservation Bill in the current parliament session

LIVE: Release caste census data conducted by Cong, says Gandhi to govt

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Parliament special session: Rajya Sabha passes women's reservation Bill

Official sources claimed that the Bill did not need ratification from states, as mandated otherwise for Constitution amendments, since it had been introduced under specific provisions

LIVE: RS passes Bill to reserve 33% of seats for women in LS, Assemblies

Day 3 of Parliament's special session will commence today. Catch all the latest updates from the session here

Dhankhar reconstitutes panel of vice-chairpersons comprising 13 women

The Rajya Sabha Chairman emphasised that the presence of women MPs on the chair would send a powerful message to the world at large and it would symbolize that they held a commanding position

Women's Reservation Bill introduced in Rajya Sabha by Law Minister Meghwal

A landmark bill to reserve a third of seats in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies for women was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. The 128th Constitution Amendment Bill, which was approved by two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, was introduced in the Upper House by Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal. Rajya Sabha will have a seven-and-a-half hour window to discuss the bill.The legislation is widely expected to get approval of the Upper House. It will then require approval of majority of state assemblies. It will be implemented after a delimitation exercise based on Census data is completed. This is the seventh attempt since 1996 to get the women's reservation bill passed. Women presently make up for nearly half of India's 95 crore registered voters but comprise only 15 per cent of lawmakers in Parliament and 10 per cent in state assemblies. The 33 per cent reservation for women will not apply to the upper house of Parliament and state legislatures.

BJD issues whip for RS MPs to support passage of Women's Reservation Bill

Meanwhile, on the Bill being brought in the Upper House, BJD MP Sasmit Patra said that Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has always supported the Bill and based on his instructions

RS unanimously adopts resolution congratulating Chandrayaan-3 scientists

It was adopted at the conclusion of the discussion on 'India's Glorious Space Journey marked by the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan -3'

Special Session: Govt to move Repealing and Amending Bill in Rajya Sabha

The Bill seeks to repeal 65 laws that are obsolete or that have been made redundant by other laws. It also corrects a minor drafting error in the Factoring Regulation Act, of 2011

Isro's Chandrayaan-3 space journey to be discussed in Rajya Sabha today

With the success of 'Chandrayaan-3', India also became the first country to have placed a lander on the moon's hitherto unexplored south pole

Special session of the Parliament day 3: What's on the agenda today?

Parliament special session: At 11 am, the Lok Sabha is likely to discuss the women's reservation bill, which has been pending for the last 27 years for want of consensus among parties