New Delhi: Members of the Rajya Sabha during the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025.
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Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates| Government pushes SHANTI, VB-G RAM G Bills for passage amid Opposition pushback
While the SHANTI Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on Monday, the ‘VB: G RAM G Bill’ was tabled in the Lower House on Tuesday, amid objections from the Opposition.
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Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates| 'Difficult to understand, violates Constitution...': Hindi names of new bills sparks row in Parliament
In recent years, the NDA government has introduced several legislations with Hindi names. Non-Hindi-speaking states, mainly in southern India, allege that this amounts to an imposition of Hindi.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates| Congress MPs to meet in the CPP office in Parliament today to chalk out the strategy for the floor of the House for the day
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates| Dr Jitendra Singh, to move the SHANTI Bill, 2025 in Lok Sabha today
Union MoS (Independent charge) Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh, to move the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India Bill, 2025 in Lok Sabha today
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates| PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah should resign: Kharge on court refusal to take cognisance of ED complaint in National Herald case
PM Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah should resign: Kharge on court refusal to take cognisance of ED complaint in National Herald case.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates| Both Houses commence proceedings
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Congress MPs protest against the government over National Herald case.
A Delhi court, on Tuesday, refused to take cognisance of the ED's money laundering charge against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'Election Commission is making the entire thing into a mockery': Kalyan Banerjee
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Oppn meets Om Birla to express opposition to listing for both bills without BAC allocating time
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Zehrili hawa hai, sarkar lapata hai: Chandrashekhar Azad protests over pollution
MP Chandrashekhar Azad protests inside Parliament premises over Delhi pollution, holding a banner reading, "Zehrili hawa hai, sarkar lapata hai."
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Lok Sabha Speaker OM Birla dismisses adjournment notices to suspend the business of the House
K C Venugopal said, "Opposition demanded both the SHANTI bill and the MGNREGA bill to be sent to the standing committee or JPC
K C Venugopal said, "Item no. 27 and 28, two bill are here for consderation and passing. Opposition demanded both the SHANTI bill and the MGNREGA bill to be sent to the stadning committee or JPC.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | "Minimum 6 hours should be allotted for SHANTI bill and minimum 8 hours should be allotted for MGNREGA: K C Venugopal
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Speaker Om Birla says that the House will discuss the bills at length, even sitting late into the night if required
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Jitendra Singh on SHANTI bill, "First I want to say that it is a very important bill, one also call it a historic bill."
"This bill could be envisioned because PM Modi has the capacity to take out of box decisions and break taboos of the past": Jitendra Singh
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Jitendra Singh on SHANTI bill, 'Today the moment of vindication has come and the vindication was destined to happen through PM Modi'
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Nehru pioneered India's nuclear quest: Manish Tiwari
Manish Tiwari on SHANTI bill, "This bill seeks to repel two seminal legislations. Since the honorable Minister in his introduction chose to speak about the history of India's nuclear programme. Allow me to spend five minutes as to how we got to this point.
It was Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru who pioneered India's nuclear quest. On August 3rd 1948, he set up the atomic energy commission which was anchored by the legendary scientist Homi Bhabha.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Moreover, it was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who carried out the first peaceful nuclear explosion codenamed Smiling Buddha
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Our dear friends sitting on the other side brought forth a no-confidence motion against the UPA govt: Manish Tiwari
"Ironically, though PM Manmohan Singh was trying to break nuclear apartheid, our dear friends sitting on the other side brought forth a no-confidence motion against the UPA govt," Manish Tiwari
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | NDA tried to derail India's nuclear programme during UPA's tenure: Manish Tiwari
NDA tried to derail India's nuclear programme during UPA's tenure, says Manish Tiwari
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Is it a coincidence? That the Adani group announces its intent to participate in the civilian nuclear sector and within a month we have this bill: Manish Tiwari
"Govt intends to open civilian nuclear sector to private participation. What strikes me as very strange that conglomerate that has built an empire on leased public assets announces its intent to enter the nuclear energy sector in later November 2025 and in December 2025 we have this bill. Is it a coincidence? That the Adani group announces its intent to participate in the civilian nuclear sector and within a month we have this bill
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Jitendra Singh says, "This allegation put the entire house in disrepute. This is a politically motivated"
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Rajya Sabha adjourned till 2pm
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | There has been a concern going back many many year that is the atomic energy regulatory board truly autonomous: Manish Tiwari
"Is the atomic energy regulatory board. There has been a concern going back many many year that is the atomic energy regulatory board truly autonomous or is it an extension of the department of Atomic Energy. If we are opening up India's nuclear energy sector to private players what you require is an autonomous, independent regulator who can be a neutral empire. Since there is no clarity in the bill regarding how independent or autonomous the regulator is, I would definitely want the minister to reply to this," says Manish Tiwari
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | I oppose SHANTI bill because bill opens up the nuclear power sector to private industries both domestic and foreign: Saugata Roy
Saugata Roy said, "I oppose the SHANTI bill because the bill opens up the nuclear power sector to private industries both domestic and foreign."
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Rajya Sabha proceedings resume
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | This bill now confronts us with a disappointing reversal as a vision that once expanded horizons gives way to ambiguity and deepens uncertainty: Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor said on SHANTI bill, "This SHANTI bill, has the government speaking grandly of harnessing the immense energy released by splitting the atom. Yet it seems to have failed to spend even a fraction of that energy in drafting a bill that is coherent, rigorous and not full of loopholes.
"Where the late Pandit Nehru ji had laid the foundations for our nuclear programme and Dr Manmohan Singh ji who carried the Indo-US nuclear deal of 2008 across the last mile and lifted India out of isolation and into an era of strategic confidence in nuclear power, this bill now confronts us with a disappointing reversal as a vision that once expanded horizons gives way to ambiguity and deepens uncertainty as to whether and where India's nuclear power framework really ahead.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | We have mastered nuclear fission and fusion but not apparently legislation precision: Shashi Tharoor
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | I am not sure whether it is a nuclear bill or an unclear bill: Shashi Tharoor
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | If this bill is called SHANTI bill then poison can be called prasadam: Sasikanth Senthil
Sasikanth Senthil from INC, said, "If this bill is called SHANTI bill then poison can be called prasadam, that is what the equivalent is. I have better name for this bill--- Limited Private Liability, Unlimited Public Suffering."
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'No one asks the Prime Minister where he is roaming?': Congress leader Imran Masood on Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi's visit to Germany
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'The LoP should conduct himself in a highly responsible manner, especially when on foreign soil': BJP MP Sambit Patra on Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi’s remarks about manufacturing in India during his visit to Germany
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates |E-cigarettes banned under law; no NCB cases of drug-laced vapes: Govt
Asserting that electronic cigarettes remain completely banned under Indian law, the government on Wednesday informed Parliament that no case related to the seizure of e-cigarettes and vape devices with narcotic substances has been investigated by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB).
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said the production, manufacture, import, export, transport, sale, distribution, storage and advertisement of electronic cigarettes are prohibited under the Prohibition of Electronic Cigarettes (PECA) Act, 2019.
Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates |Hatred towards Gandhi, Ambedkar, Nehru central element of BJP-RSS ideology: Congress
Hatred towards names of Mahatma Gandhi, B R Ambedkar, and Jawaharlal Nehru is the central element of the BJP-RSS ideology, which keeps surfacing, the Congress said on Wednesday, exactly a year after a political row broke out over Union Minister Amit Shah's 'Ambedkar' remark in Rajya Sabha.
The opposition party also said India's soul cannot be separated from the three historic figures of the freedom movement.
Dangerous leap into privatised nuclear expansion: Tharoor takes jibes at govt over N-bill
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor described the government's nuclear energy bill as a "dangerous leap into privatised nuclear expansion" without adequate safeguards and asserted that the pursuit of capital cannot be allowed to override the requirements of public safety, environmental protection and victim justice.
Centre plans to give ambulances to states to ensure quick help for highway accident victims: Gadkari
Expressing concern over high fatalities in road accidents, Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday said the Centre plans to provide states with modern ambulances with the condition that these vehicles must reach accident spots within 10 minutes.
Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister of Road Transport and Highways acknowledged that the government has not been successful in reducing the number of deaths due to road accidents despite several measures to improve road infrastructure.
Gadkari was responding to a question of senior Congress member Pramod Tiwari, who sought to know the steps taken by the government on road safety.
'Nuclear bill will impact the common people of India': Congress MP KC Venugopal
Parliament passes bill to repeal, amend 71 laws
Parliament on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to repeal or amend 71 obsolete and outdated laws with a view to enhancing ease of living for citizens. Piloting the Repealing and Amending Bill, 2025, in the Rajya Sabha, Union Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal said it aimed at removing outdated laws, correcting errors that had crept in during the law-making process and removing discriminatory aspects of certain laws. The Bill was passed by voice vote in the Rajya Sabha. It was earlier approved by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.