The Lords voted on Wednesday 358 to 256 for an amendment requiring ministers to protect the rights of EU nationals based in the UK following Brexit. In the House of Lords, May's Conservative Party does not command a majority.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill had its final debate and vote last night to allow the British Prime Minister to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty to begin a two-year period of negotiations for the UK's new deal as a non-member of the European Union by 2019.
Voters gave Johnson the huge mandate so that he can get the UK out of the European Union by January -- no ifs, no buts.
The prime minister won by 325 votes to 306 -- a majority of 19.
Britain's longest serving Indian-origin Labour MP Keith Vaz on Tuesday resigned from his post as chair of the influential House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee in the wake of being embroiled in a sex scandal.
The 47-year-old senior cabinet minister was widely expected to become the third female British Prime Minister after 170,000 online and postal votes cast by Tory members, ending Sunak's historic run as the first member of Parliament of Indian heritage to compete for the top job at 10 Downing Street.
If rebel MPs from his own Tory party and Opposition benches succeed in uniting and seeing the motion through, it would force Johnson's hand on seeking an extension to the Brexit deadline from the EU at least until January 31, 2020, in the event that no withdrawal agreement is agreed between both sides by the middle of October.
The MPs voted in favour of the Queen's Speech by 323 votes to 309 with a majority of 14.
Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said that number 'may increase' further and that the 'significant' recovery operation is likely to take weeks.
"The tragedy of Jallianwala Bagh of 1919 is a shameful scar on British Indian history," May said.
British MPs voted in favour of the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill after two days of debate by a majority of 384-498 votes in favour to 114 against.
"Maharashtra has got nothing to do with Kashmir? Soldiers from Buldhana sacrificed their lives for the protection of Kashmir. Opposition doesn't feel national issues are important," he said.
Johnson, the former foreign secretary, secured 92,153 votes against 46,656 of his rival Jeremy Hunt in the battle for 10 Downing Street.
Johnson becomes the 14th Prime Minister to be appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, the 55th to hold the post of British PM and the third in fairly quick succession since Britain voted to leave the EU in June 2016 - following on from David Cameron and Theresa May.
Theresa May's ruling Conservatives have not won outright majority in the UK parliament. Snapshots from Britain's post-Brexit snap general elections.
The final pre-poll survey done by Comres for the Independent newspaper gives the Tories a 10-point lead over the Labour party.
May issued a statement to indicate the government's next steps a day after the House of Commons once again failed to agree on any specific alternative to her controversial EU divorce bill.
Rishi Sunak, Sailesh Vara and Suella Fernandes were the three new Indian-origin MPs to be inducted into the Theresa May govt.
Over 200 noted authors, including Salman Rushdie and Neel Mukherjee, have asked British Prime Minister David Cameron to raise the issue of "rising climate of fear" and "growing intolerance" in India during his talks with his counterpart Narendra Modi.
It would be the biggest Conservative victory since 1987, the poll suggests.
The 45-year-old former human rights lawyer also becomes the first Muslim Mayor of London.
His name had appeared on an unverified list of sexual misconduct, a so-called dirty dossier, circulating in Westminster.
Thousands of farmers are protesting on various borders of Delhi since November 26, seeking repeal of three farm laws enacted in September.
The resignations are being seen as a sign of bigger troubles ahead for May, who defended the deal before belligerent MPs in the House of Commons.
Saeed Mirza on two young men who have broken barriers and emerged as beacons for a New India.
Britain is due to leave the European Union by October 31, with Johnson racing against time to strike a deal to meet that deadline.
The lawmakers voted by 312 to 308 to reject a no-deal Brexit under any circumstances.
The BJP calling the Congress a "torn old party" moving towards a stage where its relevance and necessity will be completely lost.
Johnson has set his hopes for getting his snap poll bill through the Commons threshold. His latest attempt may just succeed after the Opposition Labour Party said it would back an early election in December.
He was arrested by Swiss authorities for trespassing at the event in July 2015 but later released.
Apart from meeting members of the Royal Family, US President Trump is expected to discuss climate change and Chinese technology firm Huawei during his talks with outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday.
Though May won her Maidenhead seat in south-east England with 37,780 votes, she faced pressure to resign after losing her parliamentary majority.
'The heart of the matter is that India is not Israel.'
Indian-origin Labour Party candidates won more seats than their rival Conservatives.
The 93-year-old monarch and her 98-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are likely to be placed in quarantine at the royal Sandringham Estate in Norfolk in the coming weeks as tougher measures are put in place to fight the coronavirus outbreak in the UK affecting over 1,140 people.
The British PM's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming 149 votes, with just 17 days to go.
In a statement to formally update parliament on her European Council meeting last week where the EU agreed to a short delay to the March 29 Brexit deadline, the British PM said she remained committed to "guarantee Brexit" even if it isn't as initially planned for this Friday and would continue to lobby MPs to get the support required for another vote on the withdrawal agreement agreed with the European Union.
Varun Gandhi adds that communists always joke with him and say he is a "communist in the BJP".
The Conservative Party will form a minority government with the support of the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland
'The person who carried out the London attack... was a fighter from the Islamic State, and did so in response to calls to target citizens of coalition countries,' the ISIS statement read.
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