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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicMonsoon Session

Topic: Monsoon Session

Lok Sabha passes bill to reduce MPs salaries by 30% for a year

The Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Bill, 2020 seeks to replace the Salary, Allowances And Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020.

Economy is an issue, but the venom against Nirmala Sitharaman is because she is a woman

As Parliament opened this week, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman became the latest target of Indian men’s ingrained misogyny.

Rajasthan BJP MP who advised conch blowing, mud baths to build immunity tests Covid positive

New Delhi: Rajasthan BJP MP Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria, who had trotted out prescriptions to build immunity against Covid-19, tested positive for the virus Monday. Jaunapuria...

Positive in Delhi, negative in Jaipur — Nagaur MP’s curious Covid reports 

Lok Sabha MP Hanuman Beniwal was tested at the Lok Sabha ahead of the monsoon session and diagnosed as Covid positive. A test in Jaipur subsequently came back negative. 

24 MPs test positive, including Rajasthan BJP leader who advised mud baths to boost immunity

As many as 17 Lok Sabha and seven Rajya Sabha MPs tested positive on the first day of the Parliament’s monsoon session.

MPs must use monsoon session to review & reset India’s Covid fight as 24 of them test positive

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No question hour or friendly chatter — Covid forces Parliament to do away with many traditions

The monsoon session of Parliament began Monday with split timings for Lok Sabha & Rajya Sabha and many other changes to enforce social distancing.

Opposition protests Question Hour suspension, govt says parties had agreed to it earlier

Opposition says govt trying to strangulate democracy by suspending Question Hour. Rajnath Singh says Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had given consent to it earlier.

Opposition was okay with no Question Hour, can’t record calls to prove it, says minister

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi says Congress leaders in both Houses were ‘on board’ with suspending Question Hour, protested as an afterthought.

Modi govt climbs down on Question Hour, will allow ‘unstarred questions’ in monsoon session

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi also requests Lok Sabha Speaker and Rajya Sabha Chairman to keep duration of Zero Hour to 30 minutes.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.