Parliament Highlights | After FM's reply on Budget in Rajya Sabha, both Houses adjourned till March 10

Parliament LIVE | Govt lists Income Tax Bill 2025 for introduction in Lok Sabha today

According to the agenda circulated by the Lok Sabha secretariat on Wednesday, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will introduce the Income-Tax Bill, 2025 today. The Bill will replace difficult to understand terminologies as part of move to simplify language, aiming to overhaul the existing tax structure to make it more streamlined and transparent.

Parliament LIVE | Report of par panel on Waqf bill listed for presentation in Lok Sabha today

The report of the joint committee of Parliament on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill has been listed for presentation in the Lok Sabha on Thursday. The report was submitted to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on January 30. According to the agenda for Thursday circulated on Wednesday evening, panel chief Jagdambika Pal will table the report along with "record of evidences".

Parliament LIVE | The much-anticipated Income-Tax Bill will replace terminologies like assessment and previous year with easier to understand 'tax year' as part of move to simplify language while removing provisos and explanations.

Parliament LIVE | Lok Sabha resumes, then is adjourned over Oppn protests

Parliament LIVE | Rajya Sabha resumes amid protests from Oppn

Parliament LIVE | Rajya Sabha adjourned till 11:20 over ruckus

Parliament LIVE | Chairman Dhankhar attempted to read a message by President Murmu, but adjourned the House due to ruckus

Parliament LIVE | Ruckus in both Houses was due to Oppn raising slogans against the JPC report regarding the Waqf Amendment Bill

Parliament LIVE | Rajya Sabha resumes as Chairman Dhankhar reads out President's acknowledgement Motion of Thanks

Parliament LIVE | Zero hour begins in Rajya Sabha

Parliament LIVE | Dhankhar reprimands protesting members

Parliament LIVE | Leader of Rajya Sabha J P Nadda takes the mic

Parliament LIVE | We know we must agree to disagree, but order and decorum must be maintained: Nadda

Parliament LIVE | Oppn's behaviour reprehensible: Nadda

Parliament LIVE | Dhankhar names members causing ruckus, Oppn protest

Parliament LIVE | Report of Joint Committee of Parliament on Waqf (Amendment) Bill tabled was Rajya Sabha prior to adjournment

Parliament LIVE | LoP of Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge speaks

Parliament LIVE | We understand and acknowlegde your words, as we do Naddaji's control of his members: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | To present the JPC report on Waqf Bill with only notes of majority members and bull doze it through is condemnable: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | To delete our dissent on the report is condemnable: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | Please represent the dissent views too: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | Members agitating not for themselves but for society: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | If you work against Constitution, then we will protest: kharge

Parliament LIVE | I request Naddaji to withdraw and remake the Waqf Bill report: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | Request the Chair to send the report back, like so many Governors send back states bills: Kharge

Parliament LIVE | DMK MP Tiruchi Shiva brings up rule 274 over the report and dissents to be recorded in it

Parliament LIVE | How can you throw our words in the bin: AAP MP Sanjay SIngh on JPC report

Parliament LIVE | Request LoP to get his members in Order: Nadda

Parliament LIVE | JPC chairman has power to expunge dissent if he finds it inappropriate: Minister Bhupendra Yadav

Parliament LIVE | Oppn making unnecessary issue, report completely tabled with no rules being violated: Kiren Rijiju

Parliament LIVE | Oppn making unnecessary issue, report completely tabled with no rules being violated, all dissent notes attached in appendix: Rijiju, Dhankhar agrees

"... I have checked the concerns raised by the Opposition. There is no deletion or removal from the report. Everything is on the floor of the House. On what basis can such an issue be raised? The members of the Opposition are creating an unnecessary issue, which is not a fact. The allegation is false. The JPC conducted entire proceedings as per the rules... All the Opposition members of the JPC participated in all the proceedings in the last 6 months... All the dissent notes are attached in the Appendix of the report... They cannot mislead the House..." said Rijiju

Parliament LIVE | There is an effort to make this House disfunctional: Dhankhar

Parliament LIVE | Being mislead by Oppn members: Nirmala Sitharaman

Parliament LIVE | They ask how I know about the bill, it comes under my ministry: Kiren Rijiju

Parliament LIVE | Ministry of Minorities Affairs misleading House, my dissent was expunged: MP Nasser Hussain

Parliament LIVE | Why have half-half pages of dissent notes expunged? asks Saket Gokhale

Parliament LIVE | Oppn walks out of Rajya Sabha over dissent deletion row

Parliament LIVE | Nadda asks for suspension of members

Parliament LIVE | MoS contradicts Cabinet Minister's statements: John Brittas on Nimisha Priya incident

Parliament LIVE | Taken all possible measures, now any consideration is between the two families: MoS External Affairs

Parliament LIVE | Nimisha's and victim's family cannot interact directly: John Brittas

Parliament LIVE | Question hour underway in Rajya Sabha

Parliament LIVE | Question 93 raised by Rajya Sabha members on NPS for traders and self-employed-persons

Parliament LIVE | Question 94 raised by Rajya Sabha members on Encroachment on the birthplace of music maestro Tansen

Parliament LIVE | Question 95 raised by Rajya Sabha members on Chinese influence on India's friendly nation

Parliament LIVE | Question hour concludes

Parliament LIVE | Chairman Dhankhar raises the issue of RS members seeking removal of the Allahabad High Court judge which was raised in last session

Parliament LIVE | Discussion on Budget continues in Rajya Sabha

Parliament LIVE | Who is satisfied by the exorbitant prices or milk and petrol? The common people of govt's friends? asks INC leader Imran Pratapgarhi

Parliament LIVE | Proceedings of JPC were turned into a joke, says AAP's Sanjay Singh on report over the Waqf

Parliament LIVE | Please stop kicking the poor, this budget is for the rich: Congress MP Pratapgrahi

Parliament LIVE | If the country does not even get to know what the opposition parties said or what their views were, then how can this be called democracy? asks TMC MP Sushmita Dev

TMC MP Sushmita Dev on the JPC report over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill presented in Rajya Sabha earlier today, told PTI: “A select committee is formed so that every party’s MPs have the right to express their opinions. But what they have done is censor the dissent notes in the Waqf report they tabled. If the country does not even get to know what the opposition parties said or what their views were, then how can this be called democracy? Every opinion should be visible. This is wrong. We protested against this today in Rajya Sabha on behalf of TMC.”

Parliament LIVE | Budget must not turn its back on Odisha: BJD MP Sasmit Patra

Parliament LIVE | This budget, unlike what the opposition is saying, is pro-youth: BJP's Sangeeta Yadav

Parliament LIVE | Why isn't the govt listening to the farmers protest? asks BJD's Muzibulla Khan

Parliament LIVE | No provisions for Jawans or Kisans: BJD's Muzibulla Khan

Parliament LIVE | Appeal to all the opposition parties to let the House consider this report because the JPC has done a great length of debate, discussion, and consideration: Kiren Rijiju

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju told PTI on the JPC report over the Waqf (Amendment) Bill presented in Rajya Sabha earlier today:

"The JPC report has been tabled in Parliament. This will come to the government and it will be considered by the Cabinet and after that, the final Waqf (Amendment) Bill will be presented in the House. The opposition is already opposing the Bill which is not good. I appeal to all the opposition parties to let the House consider this report because the JPC has done a great length of debate, discussion, and consideration."

Parliament LIVE | Lok Sabha resumes proceedings

Parliament LIVE | LS members lay their papers on the table

Parliament LIVE | JPC Chairman and BJP MP Jagadambika Pal tables the report of the JPC on Waqf Amendment Bill in the Lok Sabha

Parliament LIVE | Please put forth all your disputes, your party has no problems to it: Amit Shah to Oppn

Parliament LIVE | The Income Tax Bill 2025 is tabled in Lok Sabha amid ruckus

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Parliament LIVE | JPC chairman Jagadambika Pal tables Amendent Waqf bill

Parliament LIVE | Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman urges speaker to refer Income Tax Bill, 2025, to Select Committee of Lok Sabha

Parliament LIVE | Lok Sabha Budget session adjourned; to reconvene on March 10

Parliament LIVE | This budget does have a philosophy, unlike what Oppn thinks: BJP's Bhubhaneshwar Kalita

Parliament LIVE | Under whose influence is the chairman acting? asks Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi

After Opposition stages walkout from Lok Sabha following JPC report on Waqf bill is tabled in the House, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi told reporters, "One night to read the 655-page report...We had hardly any time to present our objections. If you check the minutes of the meetings, you will find that there was no clause-by-clause discussion. We have been all part of many JPCs, and clause-by-clause discussion is most important, but it was bypassed. Under whose influence is the chairman acting? In protest to this, we staged a walk out today."

Parliament LIVE | BJP's Madan Rathore speaks on Budget in Rajya Sabha,

Parliament LIVE | Ramdas Athawale speaks on Budget in his unique style of poetry

Parliament LIVE | A corrigendum is presented for the Waqf Bill in Rajya Sabha

A corrigendum is presented for the Waqf Bill in Rajya Sabha. Chair Jagdeep Dhankhar says that this shows that Parliamentary institutions are blossoming, sentiments are taken into consideration and steps are taken. “This gives us another message: we must take recourse to law rather than engage in something which people cannot approve or which is to its distate,” he says. 

Parliament LIVE | Former PM Devegowda speaks about Union Budget, lays papers on the table with Chair’s permission

Former PM Devegowda noted various issues and lays papers on the table of the House pertaining to these. The first about cities, specifically Bangalore, and the second is about MSMEs. The third he mentioned is to do with jackfruit and formulation of a board for the same, and promoting small-scale industry. 

Parliament LIVE | FM Sitharaman begins speaking in Rajya Sabha on Budget

Parliament LIVE | In Budget we have kept goals of accelerating growth, encourage private investment: FM Sitharaman in RS

Parliament LIVE | Effective capital expenditure likely to be Rs 19.08 lakh crore in next fiscal: FM Sitharaman

Parliament LIVE | 'Paid states' dues pending since 96-97, also became world's top 5th economy amid Covid: Sitharaman in Rajya Sabha

Parliament LIVE | Budget for FY26 was prepared during challenging time, with serious external challenges beyond estimates or forecasts: FM

Parliament LIVE | Retail inflation nearing RBI's target level of 4 pc; govt will ensure prices do not burden people: FM Sitharaman

Parliament LIVE | Reserve Bank keeping watch on volatility in Indian rupee: FM Sitharaman in RS

Parliament LIVE | 'Unfounded allegations', says FM on Opposition's allegations of focusing on BJP-ruled states for Budget

Parliament LIVE | Our Budget estimates are not conservative, they are realistic: FM Sitharaman in RS

Parliament LIVE | Commotion in Rajya Sabha over FM's remark on Bengal as TMC's Derek O'Brien takes exception

Parliament LIVE | Opposition doesn't have guts to listen to FM's reply and hence they are walking out: Nadda in Rajya Sabha

Parliament LIVE | After FM's reply on Budget in Rajya Sabha, House adjourned till March 10