Budget Session may be curtailed by week
New Delhi: The current Budget Session, which was expected to run till August 14, may be curtailed by a week. A proposal to this effect is likely to come up before the meeting of the Cabinet on Thursday. The curtailment is being talked about in view of the fact that there is not much legislative agenda left after the passage of the budget by July 31. As per earlier plans, the Government had intended to take up some of the Bills, which have lapsed in the lok Sabha but were pending in the Rajya Sabha.
Four-day Eid holiday for lok Sabha
New Delhi: The lok Sabha will have a four-day holiday from Saturday with Eid expected to fall on Tuesday next. The House on Wednesday agreed to a suggestion that it should not meet on Monday. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan had sought the view of the House to the suggestion which came at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee. With the House having no sittings on Saturdays and Sundays, it will have a break of four days.
Amendments in Acts on cards: Mos in RS
New Delhi: The Government is actively considering amendments in Child labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act 1986, Factories Act 1948, Minimum Wages Act 1948, Apprenticeship Act 1961 and labour laws (Exemption from Furnishing Returns and Maintaining Registers by Certain Establishments) Act 1988. The inter-ministerial/public/tripartite consultations is in progress, Minister of State for labour and Employment, Vishnu Deo Sai said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.
Saradha scam: 64 witnesses examined
New Delhi: The CBI has examined 64 witnesses in connection with its probe in the Saradha chit fund scam in which a Trinamool Congress MP is also an accused. In a written reply in lok Sabha, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said three cases in West Bengal and one case in Odisha have been registered by the CBI. “Till July 18, 2014, more than 350 bank accounts in the name of different companies of Saradha Group and more than 160 companies of Saradha Group have been identified. The investigation to find out diversion of fund and larger conspiracy is in progress. Total 64 witnesses have been examined so far,” Singh said.
Modi’s biography published in Chinese
New Delhi: A biography of Prime Minister Narendra Modi titled Modi-Incredible emergence of a star has been published in the Chinese language. The biography by Tarun Vijay, a BJP MP and a journalist, has been published by Sichuan University’s South Asia Study Centre. In his message for the book dated April 15, 2014.
Mha starting a fresh in davy extradition
New Delhi: The Home Ministry is examining a fresh proposal by the CBI for the extradition of Purulia arms drops case prime accused Kim Davy. Former Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde had on April 22 approved sending of a fresh extradition request regarding Davy to the Denmark Government, MoS for External Affairs Gen V K Singh said in a written reply in the lok Sabha.
Sunanda case: Rajnath hints at cbi probe
New Delhi: The demand for a CBI investigation into the death of Sunanda Pushkar, wife of Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, was being ‘looked into’, Home Minister Rajnath Singh has said. “I am having the matter looked into,” he told BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, who had written to him requesting him for an SIT investigation headed by the CBI into the death of Pushkar.
CBI made 9 arrests in 268 graft cases
New Delhi: CBI has made only nine arrests in the 268 anti-corruption cases registered this year while 87 arrests were made in 2013 in 649 such cases. The data was presented in the lok Sabha by Minister of Personnel, Jitendra Singh who said till May 31, 2014, CBI has arrested nine people in cases registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Bangladesh on top in foreign footfall
New Delhi: Bangladesh continued to top the list of six neighbouring countries in terms of number of foreign tourists arriving in India.