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Parliament Winter Session Live Updates: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 12 pm amid Oppn protests on Nagaland killing

Parliament LIVE Updates, Winter Session of Parliament 2021 Live News: Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will table The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2021, and The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020 in Rajya Sabha.

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi |
Updated: December 6, 2021 11:38:01 am
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla conducts proceedings in the House during the Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (LSTV)

Parliament Winter Session Live Updates: Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for about 50 minutes till 12 noon on Monday amid protest by some opposition members soon after Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu called for the first Zero Hour mention.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to expected to make a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting with Shah and senior ministers ahead of today’s session, sources said.

In Rajya Sabha, RJD leader Manoj Jha and TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy gave a suspension notice over the Nagaland killings. TRS MP Nama Nageswara Rao gave an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha over the MSP issue.

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will table The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill, 2021, and The Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2020 in Rajya Sabha. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will site the status of implementing the 6th report of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance on the Demands for Grants (2021-22).

In Lok Sabha, the health minister will move the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021, for consideration and passing. Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is also scheduled to introduce the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021.

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11:38 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Opposition protests outside Parliament over suspension of 12 MPs

The Opposition parties staged a protest in front of the Parliament building on Monday, over the suspension of 12 Opposition MPs. “Tughlak shahi band karo, Hitler shahi nahi chalegi, Modi shahi nahi chalegi” were some of the slogans in the protest. 

The 12 opposition MPs -- six from the Congress, two each from the Trinamool Congress and Shiv Sena, and one each from the CPI and CPI(M) -- were suspended from the Rajya Sabha last Monday for the entire Winter Session of Parliament for their "unruly" conduct in the previous session in August. The Opposition has termed the suspension as "undemocratic and in violation of all the Rules of Procedure" of the Upper House. 

11:25 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Rajya Sabha proceedings adjourned till 12 pm

Rajya Sabha proceedings were adjourned for about 50 minutes till 12 noon on Monday amid protest by some opposition members soon after Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu called for the first Zero Hour mention.

11:23 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Shah should answer why Nagaland killings happened: Mallikarjun Kharge

Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday said that the opposition parties are expecting Home Minister Amit Shah to give a statement and his detailed view about the Nagaland killings. ' We'll demand that the Home Minister give his statement before both Houses & give his detailed view on the incident, we're expecting it. It's a very sensitive incident. It shouldn't have happened. He should answer why did it happen,' he said. 

10:55 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Shah to make a statement on Nagaland Killings; PM Modi meets senior ministers ahead of session

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to expected to make a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting with Shah and senior ministers ahead of today’s session, sources said.

10:11 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Amit Shah to speak on the Nagaland Killings in Parliament today: ANI

Union Home Minister Amit Shah to give a statement on the Nagaland firing incident in both the Houses of the Parliament today, ANI reported.

10:11 (IST)06 Dec 2021
What are the Nagaland killings?

Six civilians, said to be workers in a coal mine, were killed in an ambush by security forces in an area between Tiru and Oting village in Nagaland’s Mon district while returning home in a vehicle Saturday evening.

The incident triggered violence in the area Saturday night and late Sunday afternoon, in which eight more civilians (seven on Saturday, and one Sunday) were killed after security forces allegedly opened fire.Shattering the relative calm in Nagaland, the killings and the subsequent violence put a question mark on peace talks. (With Tora Aggarwala)

10:07 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Lok Sabha: Important matters of the day

  • In Lok Sabha, the health minister will move the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (Amendment) Bill, 2021, for consideration and passing.
  • Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju is also scheduled to introduce the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Bill, 2021.

10:06 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Rajya Sabha: Important matters of the day

10:05 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Nageswara Rao gives suspension notice over Nagaland killings in Lok Sabha

TRS MP Nama Nageswara Rao gave an adjournment motion notice in Lok Sabha over the MSP issue.

10:04 (IST)06 Dec 2021
Manoj Jha, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy give suspension notice over Nagaland killings in Rajya Sabha

In Rajya Sabha, RJD leader Manoj Jha and TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy gave a suspension notice over the Nagaland killings.

No plan to ban NSO group, don’t know whether it has been blacklisted in US: Centre to Parliament

 

The Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology informed the Parliament on Friday that it had no information on whether the United States has blacklisted the NSO group, which has been at the centre of a global controversy over the alleged misuse of its Pegasus spyware to tap phones of journalists, activists, and politicians.

There is also no proposal to ban the group in India, Minister of State for Information and Technology, Rajeev Chandrashekhar, said in response to a question by Samajwadi Party MPs Vishambhar Prasad Nishad and Chaudhary Sukhram Singh Yadav.

The MPs had asked: “Whether United States of America has blacklisted NSO Group and Candiru, for providing Pegasus spyware, which has been used to maliciously target journalists, embassy workers and activists; (b) If so, the details thereof;  (c) Whether the Ministry has also banned the NSO Group in India; (d) if so, the details thereof; and (e) if not, the reasons therefor?”

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