The bill was introduced following a division of votes, with 186 members supporting and 74 opposing it.
Anand Sharma (Congress) charged the BJP of 'committing theft (of mandate) by deceit'.
'Our mandate is to work in a transparent manner, keeping two objectives in mind - consumer interest and growth of the telecom sector.'
The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders on Saturday credited 'Modi wave' for the party's stong showing in the high stakes Uttar Pradesh elections.
Unlike the 2012 manifesto, the BJP has chosen not to make any extravagant promises.
The telcos have assured the government that things would improve over the next 45 days.
'Unke andar will power ki kami hai.'
Other than Gujarat, Odisha and West Bengal, call centres would come up in Assam, Manipur, Tripura.
Yashwant Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party's member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G spectrum scam, on Saturday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar requesting her to reject the panel's report.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday is learnt to have cleared a bill on electoral reforms, including the one to link electoral roll with Aadhaar on a voluntary basis to root out multiple enrolments.
'If there are any incidents of cyberattacks, they should immediately inform CERT.'
The Budget for 2016-17 has announced a massive rollout of ATMs and micro-ATMs.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Saturday said he does not see a 'middle path' to end the logjam in Parliament as the Opposition's demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Adani issue was 'non-negotiable' and the question of an apology over Rahul Gandhi's remarks in the United Kingdom does not arise.
The retirement age of doctors in some departments is 60 years and in some others, it is 62.
Eyeing a record high spectrum sale of Rs 1 lakh crore, the government on Wednesday fixed the base price for 3G auction at Rs 3,705 crore per mega hertz - which itself can fetch over Rs 17,000 crore (Rs 170 billion) from this band.
Amid Gandhi family's attacks on Narendra Modi over the Gujarat model, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday hit back by bringing out a video and a booklet on alleged land deals of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law by terming it as 'Robert Vadra model of development'.
This is the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.
Hitting back at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for making "false and defamatory" statements against him, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is slapping criminal and civil defamation cases against him and five other AAP leaders in Delhi courts on Monday.
"Bring an ordinance on Ram temple and fulfil at least one promise made to Hindus," said the party.
If they will allow I will speak inside the parliament, the Wayanad MP said.
The government has suffered a loss of Rs 12,488.93 crore (Rs 124.88 billion) due to under-invoicing of gross revenue by six telecom companies including Reliance Communications, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel, the CAG said in a damning report on Friday.
Govt announces slew of schemes for rural India
Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, however, said that the appointment of judges would go ahead irrespective of whether new Memorandum of Procedure was in place or not.
Congress said it expects the truth to prevail after the report on the Rafale deal is made public.
BJP-led NDA has said it will strongly demand that the Telangana Bill be brought in the Winter Session of Parliament and press for debates on issues like internal security, violence against women and subversion of constitutional bodies like JPC on 2G scam.
"The findings of Pew Global research are very significant. After the Modi government came to power, people's trust in the government, democracy and confidence that the nation is in the right direction has gone up drastically," the BJP chief said.
Speculation over Justice Gogoi's appointment as the next CJI arose after the court's four most senior judges, including Justice Gogoi, called a press conference in January and criticised Justice Misra on various issues.
The current session of Parliament may be extended to enable the passage of bills, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu told Bharatiya Janata Party MPs in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani hit out at Chidambaram saying the Congress is 'scared' of the polls in the state.
The new Council of Ministers has representation from almost all the states, except Andhra Pradesh and the north-eastern states of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura.
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