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New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): Parliament on Wednesday passed the 'Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025', with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman assuring members that opening up the sector will attract new insurers, intermediaries and allied service providers, expanding the overall insurance ecosystem and creating net employment. The Rajya Sabha passed the bill after a reply from the Finance Minister. The Lok Sabha passed it on Tuesday. In her reply, Sithar ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector to 100 per cent from the existing 74 per cent, a move the government said would help increase insurance penetration, lower premiums and generate employment. The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, was cleared by the Rajya Sabha through a voice vote, a day after it was passed by the Lok Sabha. The Upper House rejected amendments moved by the Opposition, ...Read More >
West Bengal State Sports Minister Aroop Biswas on Tuesday has resigned, amid ire against him from angry fans, and after the chaos during Messi's visit to Yuvabharati Stadium. West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar and Bidhannagar Police Commissioner Mukesh have also been show caused by the Chief Secretary's office. Major chaos and pandemonium followed during football superstar Lionel Messi's appearance in Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday, and probe by a high-powered committee was ordered by Chief M ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Several parties of the opposition INDIA bloc will stage a protest against the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) Bill, which seeks to replace MGNREGA, in the Parliament complex on Thursday morning. Sources said the protest will be organised near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the Parliament complex at 10.15 am and MPs of various opposition parties will raise slogans to oppose the government's move. The decision to hold the protes ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) The BJP alleged on Wednesday that it was Trinamool Congress MP Kirti Azad who was vaping in the Lok Sabha, days after former Union minister Anurag Thakur raised the issue in the House and got a written complaint lodged with the speaker against an unnamed TMC lawmaker. Hitting back at the saffron party, TMC's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said it should release the entire video footage of the incident first, before levelling such allegations. "The TMC MP a ...Read More >
Kolkata Dec 17 (PTI) Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday criticised the Centre's decision to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), calling it an "anti-Bengal" move and accusing the BJP of systematically erasing the state's cultural and historical legacy. Reacting to the Union Cabinet's approval of a Bill to rename MGNREGA as Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission Gramin (VB-G RAM G), the TMC national general secretary said the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the government over the G RAM G bill, saying it is destroying Mahatma Gandhi's idea of Ram Rajya both in letter and spirit by repealing MGNREGA and renaming the scheme. She also accused the government of "dishonouring" both Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, who gave the title of Mahatma to the Father of the Nation, by renaming MGNREGA. Participating in the debate on the Viksit Bharat Guarantee ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Wednesday informed the Parliament that there existed a total of 9,248 vacancies across ranks ranging from Constable to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and Additional DCP in the Delhi Police. The current strength of the force is 92,044. Sharing the inputs in Rajya Sabha through a written reply to the House the MHA gave the overall rank-wise sanctioned strength and vacancies in the Delhi Police, as of November 30, 2025. According to the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Rajya Sabha on Wednesday witnessed intense debate on the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, which proposes raising foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector to 100 pe cent from 74 per cent, among other reforms to modernise the industry and achieve 'Insurance for All by 2047'. The Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha on December 16, amends the Insurance Act, 1938; Life Insurance Corporation Act, 1956; and Insurance Regu ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) TMC's Lok Sabha leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said the party would take appropriate action only if credible and complete video evidence emerges to substantiate allegations that a party MP smoked an e-cigarette inside Parliament. His remarks came amid a political row after BJP MP Anurag Thakur lodged a written complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla last week, seeking action against a Trinamool Congress lawmaker for allegedly using an electronic cigarette inside t ...Read More >
Kolkata: Close on the heels of the unprecedented chaos and policing failure during Lionel Messi's event at Yuva Bharati Krirangan in Kolkata, two more mega events are on the cards in West Bengal. At a high level administrative meeting on Monday, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee urged the senior officials and party colleagues to learn from the mistakes at the Messi event. Against this backdrop, Banerjee issued a whip that there will be no "VIP culture" duri ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress has reportedly accused the state's principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of misleading voters, claiming the existence of over a crore of illegal electors. This followed the publication of data from the Election Commission's draft electoral roll in its ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR). However, Trinamool leaders themselves had equally contributed to building an environment of uncertainty and fear over ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday said that the West Bengal government acted promptly after the chaos that erupted during an event involving Argentine football star Lionel Messi, asserting that action has already been initiated and further steps will follow against anyone found guilty. Banerjee, the party's national general secretary and the Diamond Harbour MP, made the assertion while speaking to reporters after returning to Kolkata from Delhi, where had go ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 17 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will address a mega meeting of the party's booth-level agents (BLAs) here on Monday to chart its voter-list strategy for the second phase of the SIR, with over 58 lakh names struck off the state's draft electoral rolls, party sources said. Amid mounting political unease over the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR), the meeting scheduled at Netaji Indoor Stadium here is aimed at strengthening the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 17 (PTI) Several non-ruling members in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday opposed the bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent and demanded that the proposed legislation be sent to a Parliamentary panel for further scrutiny. Participating in the debate on The Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill, 2025, moved for consideration and passage by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Upper House, members also objected to the title of the Bill, whic ...Read More >
New Delhi: Was Trinamool Congress MP Kirti Azad 'vaping' in Parliament, even as proceedings were on? Days after BJP MP Anurag Thakur registered a formal complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla that a Trinamool Congress lawmaker was smoking in the House during proceedings, the party on Wednesday released a purported video showing Azad allegedly vaping, as reported by India Today. Days of suspense followed Thakur's complaint, following which BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya finally revealed the ...Read More >
Asked about the Messi incident, Banerjee said that the state government has taken action. New Delhi: Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday said the West Bengal government has taken action following the chaos during an event involving Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi, adding that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had apologised within an hour of the incident. Talking to media in the Parliament complex, Banerjee also said they were not satisfied with the mann ...Read More >
The draft electoral roll for West Bengal has been published, with 58,20,899 voter names deleted so far. According to available data, the deletions include: deceased voters: 24.16 lakh (3.15 per cent), shifted or absent voters: 32.65 lakh (4.26 per cent), and voters enrolled at multiple locations: 1.38 lakh (0.18 per cent). Most of these deletions relate to cases where verification forms were not returned, or where voters were reported to be deceased, shifted to another location, absent, or dupl ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 17 (ANI): Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Wednesday backed the remarks of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee defending the Bengal government after chaos erupted at Lionel Messi's event in Kolkata, stating that he was only highlighting the Bhartiya Janata Party's non-accountability and hypocrisy. Speaking to ANI, she showcased support to Banerjee, saying, "He said that the TMC govt had taken action and the state Sports minister who was responsible has resigned. The CM ...Read More >
Aroop Biswas made it to The New York Times on Saturday but the 61-year-old sports minister of Bengal, one of the trusted aides of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, will definitely not like the attention. His party and government were left red-faced after the mess that unfolded at the Salt Lake stadium during the big-ticket event held for Lionel Messi. Angry fans ran amok, clashing with police, after the Argentine football star could barely be seen from the stands because he was surrounded by a p ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress leadership has decided to instruct its booth-level agents to carry out fresh, door-to-door scrutiny of deleted voters' names in Bhabanipur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's assembly constituency, after nearly 45,000 electors were struck off from the draft rolls under the SIR exercise, party sources said. According to Election Commission data, Bhabanipur had 2,06,295 voters as of January 2025. The draft rolls now carry 1,61,509 names, indicating that 4 ...Read More >
THANE: After the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena, the local leadership of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has now also sought to contest the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) elections independently. NCP workers in Thane have communicated this demand to the party's senior leadership, according to Najeeb Mulla, president of the Thane unit of the NCP. Similar demands have previously been made by workers of the BJP and Shiv Sena, the NCP's allies in the Mahayuti government. Th ...Read More >
West Bengal's draft electoral rolls reveal 127 Absent, Shifted, Dead (ASD) voters at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's booth. The Special Intensive Revision process identified over 24 lakh dead voters for deletion. The draft rolls are now available for public scrutiny, with claims and objections to be filed until January 17, 2026. With the draft electoral rolls in Bengal published on Tuesday, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that began on December 4, West Bengal ...Read More >
A Trinamool Congress councillor on Tuesday (December 16, 2025) walked into a crematorium near Kolkata and demanded that his last rites be performed, claiming that the Election Commission of India (ECI) listed him among the "dead" in the draft electoral rolls. A booth-wise list of the deceased and migrated voters was released ahead of West Bengal's draft electoral rolls earlier in the day. Surya Dey, the Trinamool councillor of Dankuni Municipality's Ward 18, said that while checking the lists ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday alleged that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's accepting Aroop Biswas' resignation as the state sports minister is nothing but a "rear-guard action" to douse public anger over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event last week. BJP co-in-charge for West Bengal Amit Malviya alleged that this is also an "open confession" that the Messi event fiasco was not accidental but a government-manufactured disaster, borne out of the poor ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Hours after the Election Commission of India (ECI) released the draft electoral rolls on Tuesday, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with Booth Level Agents (BLAs) in Bhawanipore assembly constituency this evening. Senior leaders and Kolkata civic body councillors of the party and ministers like Firhad Hakim attended the meeting. Bhawanipore constituency recorded around 44,000 dead and bogus voters as per the draft electoral rolls after completion of the Spe ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Election Commission has deleted around 58.20 lakh invalid voters' names after conducting the first phase of its special intensive revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls in poll-bound West Bengal. The exact figure of the deleted voters' names is 58,20,898, according to the SIR draft roll published by the office of the Chief Electoral Officer, West Bengal on Tuesday. It included 127 electors at a booth in Bhowanipore of South Kolkata where chief minister Mamata Banerjee casts her vote ...Read More >
Agartala: Tripura CM Manik Saha announced a strategic shift in BJP's approach to electoral seat calculations, stating that the party will now include all 20 assembly seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes in its electoral strategy.Speaking at a joining rally in the city, Saha emphasized BJP's growing confidence in its increasing support among indigenous communities, marking a significant change in the region's political landscape.During the event, a large number of tribal leaders and their supporte ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday refrained from commenting on whether TMC leader Aroop Biswas should resign from all his ministerial posts to ensure an impartial inquiry into the Messi event fiasco, and said he is waiting for "the files" to reach him. Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accepted the resignation of Biswas as the sports and youth affairs minister, while he continues to remain in the cabinet as the power and housing minister. Ask ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) The Election Commission on Tuesday published West Bengal's draft electoral rolls following SIR, deleting the names of more than 58 lakh voters on various grounds, including death and migration, and redrawing voter profiles across districts and border belts ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. The scale, spread and political geography of the deletions have affected several high-profile assembly seats, and have sharpened political fault lines and set the stage for a contentious ...Read More >
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