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Prime Minister Narendra Modi in group photograph with Union Minister Smriti Irani and women MPs after the passage of the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam (women’s reservation bill) by the Rajya Sabha in the special session of the Parliament, in New Delhi, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023 | Photo Credit: PTI Rajya Sabha unanimously passes women’s reservation Bill The Rajya Sabha passed the women’s reservation Bill unanimously on Thursday with Prime…

Women MPs flash the victory sign after the Lok Sabha passed the motion concerning the Women’s Reservation Bill during the Special Session, at the Parliament in New Delhi on September 20, 2023 | Photo Credit: ANI Lok Sabha passes historic women’s reservation Bill; PM Modi thanks MPs across party lines Twenty-seven years after the women’s reservation Bill was first introduced in Parliament, the Lok Sabha on September 20 passed a Bill…

Police officers walk in front of the new parliament building a day before its inauguration in New Delhi, India | Photo Credit: Reuters Census a must for Women’s Reservation Bill to become reality The Women’s Reservation bill can come into effect only after the decennial Census has been conducted, a procedure that the Centre has continually delayed. The 128th Constitutional Amendment Bill, 2023, or the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam,…

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers a statement in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, on September 18, 2023 | Photo Credit: AP Canada investigates Indian government link to killing of Khalistani activist, expels Indian diplomat Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said that Canada is investigating possible links between the Indian government and the assassination of Khalistan Tiger Force (KTF) chief Hardeep Singh Nijjar…

A view of new Parliament House Complex in New Delhi | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR MPs to move to new Parliament on Tuesday, Opposition asks for Women’s Bill More than three months after the new Parliament House was inaugurated, Members of Parliament will move into the building on Tuesday, the second day of the special session. Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi informed floor leaders of various political parties…

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former president Sonia Gandhi, and party senior leaders being welcomed on their arrival for the newly constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC) in Hyderabad on Saturday, September 16, 2023. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Congress Working Committee resolves to make INDIA bloc an ideological and electoral success The newly constituted Congress Working Committee (CWC), at its first meeting in Hyderabad on September 16, welcomed the “continuing…

Congress MP from Karanataka Priyank Kharge on Monday spoke in support of Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin’s call to eradicate Sanatan Dharma. The debate around Sanatan Dharma arose when a video of Tamil Nadu sports minister Udhayanidhi Stalin, son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin at a conference on Saturday said ‘Sanatan Dharma should be eradicated and not just opposed’. On Monday Priyank Kharge told reporters, “Any religion…