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Saturday, September 20, 2025
TopicWinter Session

Topic: Winter Session

Modi govt is sure of its Rajya Sabha numbers again, will table citizenship bill on Monday

The bill, which was approved by cabinet on 4 December, seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Cabinet approves exchange traded fund for bonds in bid to raise funds for PSUs

Bharat Bond Exchange Traded Fund would be the first corporate bond ETF in the country.

Rajnath raises issue of absentee MPs in Parliament as govt prepares to table citizenship bill

Defence Minister Singh said Prime Minister Modi was dissatisfied with MPs being absent, and instructed they be present when Amit Shah tables the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

Siddha treatment getting popular, Tamil Nadu institute saw 2,000 patients per day in 2018-19

Minister of State for AYUSH, Shripad Naik, told Lok Sabha that Tamil Nadu’s National Institute of Siddha treated over 7.8 lakh patients in its OPD in 2018-19.

As SPG Bill comes up for debate, BJP MP gets lesson in ‘nationalism’ from Speaker Om Birla

Snippets from beyond the headlines on Day 8 of Parliament’s winter session.

In pictures: When Parliament turned yellow this winter session

The day's business in Parliament included discussions on electoral bonds, air pollution and the surrogacy bill.

Only 4 out of 82 secretaries working in Modi govt are from SC/ST communities

Minister of State for the Department of Personnel and Training Jitendra Singh gave the information in the Rajya Sabha Thursday.

‘Unscientific & regressive’ — why transgenders bill tabled in Rajya Sabha is contentious

The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill 2019 was tabled in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday, three months after the Lok Sabha cleared it.

No SPG cover, Sonia Gandhi now enters Parliament just like any other MP

Snippets from beyond the headlines on Day 2 of Parliament’s winter session.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.