Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Rajya Sabha passes nuclear energy bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Opposition MPs demand 100% FDI insurance bill be sent to Par panel for more scrutiny

Several non-NDA members in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday opposed the bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent and demanded that the proposed legislation be sent to a Parliamentary panel for further scrutiny.

Participating in the debate on The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, moved for consideration and passage by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Upper House, members also objected to the title of the Bill, which is in both English and Hindi.

The Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Oppn parties to protest against G-RAM-G Bill at Gandhi statue in Parliament today

Several parties of the opposition INDIA bloc will stage a protest against the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, which seeks to replace MGNREGA, in the Parliament complex on Thursday morning.

Sources said the protest will be organised near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the Parliament complex at 10.15 am and MPs of various opposition parties will raise slogans to oppose the government's move.

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Securities Market Code Bill may be introduced in Parliament in Winter session

The government is likely to introduce a bill seeking to strengthen investor protection and help boost ease of doing business in the country's financial markets in the ongoing Winter session of Parliament.

The three-week-long winter session is set to conclude on December 19.

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Congress MP Deepender Hooda calls for detailed discussion on air pollution in Parliament

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Oppn MPs stage protest against VB-G RAM G Bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Opposition parties want healthy discussion on pollution issue without any political scoring of points: Revolutionary Socialist Party MP N K Premachandran

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Opposition MPs raise issue of atrocities on minorities and protest on the Parliament premises

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Proceedings begin in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | This is not about renaming MGNREGA, this is about right to work: Mallikarjun Kharge

Rajya Sabha LoP and Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge said, "This is not about renaming MGNREGA, this is about right to work. They are snatching away the right that was given by us...They are snatching away the rights of people. This is a big issue, and it is very difficult for the poor. So, we will fight for this till the end. We will fight on the streets and in every district of every state there will be a movement."

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi reaches Parliament to join opposition protest over MGNREGA name change issue

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'Will fight till the end': Kharge on VB-G RAM G Bill row

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | A fight needs to be fought against pollution. If needed, environmentalists need to be consulted: Congress MP Ujjwal Raman Singh

On IND vs SA 4th T20 called off in Lucknow, Congress MP Ujjwal Raman Singh said, "This (air pollution) is a serious issue. We cannot see it as a cancellation of just one match. Entire North India is suffering from pollution. So, Govt should not just discuss, a concrete step also needs to be taken. A fight needs to be fought against pollution. If needed, environmentalists need to be consulted."

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Congress Working Committee (CWC) to meet on December 27 to discuss political developments, including MGNREGA and VB-G RAM G Bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | National highway construction in Kerala facing serious issues: Congress leader KC Venugopal

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | It’s a democratic fight. We are fighting to protect Mahatma Gandhi's legacy: Congress MP Manickam Tagore on MGNREGA protest

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | In open letter, RJD MP appeals to parliamentarians to oppose VB-G RAM G Bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | FM introduces Securities Markets Code Bill in LS

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Ruckus in LS as Shivraj Chouhan speaks on G RAM G Bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'Better than MGNREGA', Shivraj Chouhan says, ruckus erupts in LS

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Opposition members chant 'we want MGNREGA' as Shivraj Chouhan replies to discussion on G RAM G Bill in Lok Sabha

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Successive govts have launched job guarantee schemes before NREGA: Union minister Shivraj Chouhan

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Shivraj Chouhan slams Priyanka Gandhi's charges that Modi govt renaming schemes on a whim; lists out schemes named after Nehru-Gandhi

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Opposition members resort to sloganeering in the well of Lok Sabha against G RAM G Bill, tear papers and fling bits in House

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Several shortcomings in MGNREGA, states spent more on labour and less on procuring material: Shivraj Chouhan replies to discussion on G RAM G bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Oppn MPs tear papers, throw in protest, massive sloganeering in LS

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'Mahatma Gandhi's name was added to NREGA with an eye on 2009 elections': Shivraj Chouhan

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Lok Sabha adjourned till Friday

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | RS MPs flag traffic woes at rail crossings, gaps in maternal health scheme

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | VB-G RAM G Bill passed in LS amid din; Oppn tears copies

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Discussion under way in RS on SHANTI Bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates |'Historic day for India's politics': BJP MP Sambit Patra

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates |Parliamentary panel examining Bills to remove PM, CMs gets extension to submit report

The Parliamentary committee examining Bills to remove the prime minister and chief ministers was granted extension on Thursday to submit its report by the last week of the Budget Session next year.

Joint Parliamentary Committee Chair Aparajita Sarangi moved a resolution in Lok Sabha seeking time to submit its report "up to the first day of the last week of the Budget Session, 2026".

The resolution was passed by a voice vote.

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | No compromise on safeguard mechanism in nuclear bill: Jitendra Singh

The Rajya Sabha on Thursday took up a discussion on the nuclear energy bill, with Union Jitendra Singh asserting that no compromise will be made with the safeguard mechanism in place.

Singh, the Minister of State, Department of Atomic Energy, moved the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, which seeks to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear sector for private participation.

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates |'This is very unfortunate': Congress MP Ranjeet Ranjan on the LS passing VB-G RAM bill

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'The conduct of the opposition members in Lok Sabha today, has tarnished democracy': Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates |SHANTI Bill: Oppn MPs question allowing private sector in nuclear power

Opposition MPs on Thursday questioned the government for allowing private operators into the nuclear power sector, saying it could impact the sovereignty of the country, as the Rajya Sabha discussed the SHANTI Bill 2025.

Participating in the debate, Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose said the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill is not just flawed but "fundamentally dangerous".

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | 'Nuclear bomb which threatens the country's peace and security': DMK MP P Wilson on SHANTI bill

DMK MP P Wilson said the Bill is a "nuclear bomb which threatens the country's peace and security".

"The nuclear supply chain is sought to be removed from the sovereign functions and from the Union of India government's active oversight. There is nothing peaceful, nothing sustainable, nothing transformative about this legislation.

"On the contrary, it is a reckless, dangerous and deeply flawed attempt to privatise one of the most sensitive and high-risk sectors of a nation, the nuclear energy sector," he said.

He said one of the most critical essential sovereign functions of an elected government is given to the private sector.

Parliament Winter Session 2025 LIVE Updates | Rajya Sabha passes nuclear energy bill

Parliament on Thursday passed the nuclear energy bill, with the Rajya Sabha giving its nod to the legislation that seeks to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear sector for private participation.

The Upper House passed the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill by a voice vote. It was passed in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

Minister of State, Department of Atomic Energy, Jitendra Singh said nuclear is a reliable 24x7 power supply source, which is not so in the case of other renewable energy options.