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Jul 24, 2019 08:10 AM IST | Source: Moneycontrol.com

Parliament LIVE: Anna Hazare slams Modi govt on RTI Act changes

Live updates of the Parliament session

  • Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Gopal Narayan Singh gives Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over "severe drought in south Bihar and heavy floods in north Bihar". (ANI)

  • Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut gives Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over "delay in production of Vande Bharat Express". (ANI)

  • Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MP Nazir Ahmad Laway has given Zero Hour Notice in Rajya Sabha over 'problems of Jammu & Kashmir migrants' (ANI)

  • Modi govt has betrayed people: Anna Hazare on RTI Act changes

    A day after the Lok Sabha passed amendments to the Right to Information (RTI) Act, social activist Anna Hazare accused the Union government of betraying Indian citizens through the move. "It is expected that while drafting a legislation, the government take the opinion of citizens. If the draft and the Act are both made only by the government, then it is not a democracy but a dictatorship," Hazare said. (PTI)

  • Doctors, students protest against NMC Bill

    Students and doctors from various medical colleges and hospitals in the city staged protest against the National Medical Commission (NMC) Bill by burning copies of it outside the AIIMS, New Delhi. (PTI)

  • Update: The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned for the day. 

  • Update: The Lok Sabha has been adjourned for the day. 

  • Update: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is currently speaking in Rajya Sabha. 

  • Update: "Number of terrorist incidents in hinterland during last decade as compared to the previous decade have reduced by 70 percent from 71 to 21 and the number of terrorist incidents in Jammu & Kashmir have reduced by 86 percent  i.e. 23,290 to 3187," says MoS Home, G Kishan Reddy, in Lok Sabha. 

  • Update: The Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2019 has been passed by Lok Sabha.