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Saurabh Sharma
UP: With Dues Piling up, Sugarcane Farmers Await Prices for This Season
16 Feb 2021
One of the primary reasons that sugarcane farmers are irked is that the mills have not been paying them their dues. The Farm Laws have only added fuel to a burning fire.
PTI
Lok Sabha Proceedings Washed Out Again Amid Opposition Protest Against Farm Laws
05 Feb 2021
Holding placards, Congress, Left parties and DMK raise slogans in the Well against the new laws.
Vaidushya Parth
When “Rule of Law” Becomes “Rule by Decree” in Parliament
05 Jan 2021
These incidents illustrate the worrying trend in the parliamentary system and its working.
K Raveendran
Election Commission Doing PR Work for ‘One Nation One Poll’ ?
24 Dec 2020
The implementation of ‘one nation one poll’ would obviously require major amendments to the laws, but also synchronisation adjustments in the interregnum so that elections will become due in all…
PTI
Lok Sabha Takes up 3 Crucial Labour Code Bills Amid Opposition Boycott
22 Sep 2020
The debate on the key Bills, which were moved for consideration and passage, will likely see no participation by Opposition parties.
PTI
Uproar, Adjournments Mark Introduction of Tax Bill in Lok Sabha
18 Sep 2020
Opposition questions government on states’ GST dues, PMCARES fund for COVID-19.
The Leaflet
No Govt Data on Death of Migrant Workers Returning Home During Lockdown, Centre Informs Lok Sabha
14 Sep 2020
The Central Government Monday informed the Lok Sabha it maintained no data on migrant workers who lost lives during the return to their home towns after the announcement of the nation-wide Lockdown…
PTI
Lok Sabha: Opposition Slams Scrapping of Question Hour, Pvt Members’ Business
14 Sep 2020
Opposition terms it as “throttling” of democracy.
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Opposition Reacts to Centre Suspending Question Hour in Monsoon Session, Says it Exposes ‘Autocratic Mindset’
02 Sep 2020
Taking to Twitter, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that it was an example of how “strongmen leaders would use the excuse of the pandemic to stifle democracy and dissent”.
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‘Code on Social Security’ Omits Anganwadi, ASHAs as ‘Employees’, Unlike in Earlier Drafts
11 Aug 2020
Noting many omissions and ambiguities, such as on gig workers, the Standing Committee on Labour has called for a relook at the proposed Code, subsuming 9 labour Acts, to make it more ‘dynamic’.