Most political parties have favoured cutting short the 18-day monsoon session after MPs, including Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel, tested positive for Covid.
The last five days saw Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu frequently ticking off MPs for speaking with their mask pushed to the chin.
Union ministers Nitin Gadkari and Prahlad Patel tested positive for Covid-19 recently. Both had attended the ongoing Monsoon session of the parliament.
Replying to a debate in the Rajya Sabha, the Union Health Minister said India's mortality rate at 1.64 per cent is lowest in the world, and recovery rate among one of the highest.
Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu had set aside two hours for a discussion on coronavirus, but extended it to four hours Wednesday at the instance of the Opposition.
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.
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.
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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.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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