Live: Triple talaq bill tabled in Lok Sabha

Here is what is making the headlines today.

Union Minister for External Affairs issues a statement in Lok Sabha on the ill-treatment meted out to the mother and wife of former Naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who is on death row in Pakistan.

Here are the live updates:

28 December 2017

17:39 PM IST

What is the credibility of All India Muslim Personal Law Board? Who chose them to be community representatives? : Union Minister of State for External Affairs MJ Akbar in Lok Sabha 

14:48 PM IST

Congress will support triple talaq bill in Parliament but will raise the issue of criminal provisions in the bill: Sources

12:53 PM IST

Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) opposes the provision of 3-year-jail term in triple talaq bill 

12:50 PM IST

Those opposing bill on triple talaq are conservative: Senior BJP leader Subramanian Swamy 

12:48 PM IST

Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad calls it a historic day, says, "Supreme Court has declared triple talaq a crime. All women have right to equality. The bill will ensure justice for all Muslim women"

This law is for women's rights & justice & not regarding any prayer, ritual or religion: Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad in Lok Sabha #TripleTalaqBill pic.twitter.com/feFU2W3faF

— ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2017

12:43 PM IST

Triple talaq bill is against law, violates Right to Freedom: Owaisi

12:43 PM IST

Triple talaq bill is flawed, there are many internal contradictions in the bill, says BJD MP Bhartruhari Mahtab in Lok Sabha

12:41 PM IST

Muslims were not consulted before tabling of bill on triple talaq in the Parliament: Owaisi

12:40 PM IST

Triple talaq bill: This bill violates fundamental rights and lacks legal coherence, says Asaduddin Owaisi in Lok Sabha 

12:37 PM IST

Government tables bill on triple talaq in Lok Sabha

11:30 AM IST

D Raja, CPI: The meeting could have been a step forward and could have been dealt in a humane way. We should find a solution in this matter.

11:29 AM IST

BSP: We condemn how Pakistan treated Jadhav's family. We demand strong action against Pakistan.

11:28 AM IST

Tapan Kumar Sen, CPM: The Pakistani govt allowed its media to harass Jadhav's family.

11:27 AM IST

Parliament unites in condemning the treatment meted out to Kulbhushan Jadhav's family in Pakistan.

11:26 AM IST

Derek O Brien, TMC: We completely endorse every word of Sushma Swaraj's statement. 

11:25 AM IST

Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress: The Indian government should make sure that Pakistan government assures that Jadhav will be safe in its custody.

11:25 AM IST

Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress: The treatment meted out to Jadhav's family is not an insult to just one family but to the entire country.

11:22 AM IST

Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress: India knows Pakistan too well. They do not have any trust on democracy, human values. They do not know how to behave with people, even if they have been falsely accused of a crime 

11:21 AM IST

Sushma Swaraj: This meeting was absurdity beyond measure

11:20 AM IST

Sushma: His wife was asked to take off her shoes. Pakistan is trying to create a scene by saying that there is a chip in her shoe. She wore the same shoes and boarded two international flights. How could she have passed two security checks if there was a chip in her shoe?

11:18 AM IST

Sushma Swaraj: The cars were made to stop so that the media there is able to harass both Jadhav's mother and wife

11:17 AM IST

Sushma Swaraj: They were asked to speak in English and stopped when they spoke in Marathi. They even shut the intercom lines when they were talking in Marathi

11:17 AM IST

Sushma Swaraj: His mother and wife were made to take off their bindi, bangles and mangalsutra

11:15 AM IST

His mother and wife were ill treated and made to even change clothes

11:13 AM IST

Sushma: It is extremely unfortunate that Pakistan used this meeting as a propaganda 

11:10 AM IST

Sushma Swaraj speaks on Kulbhushan Jadhav meeting with his mother and wife

11:09 AM IST

Congress created uproar in the Lok Sabha over his statement after which Speaker Sumitra Mahajan asked him to apologise to the House.

11:06 AM IST

BJP MP Anant Kumar Hegde apologised for his controversial remark on the Constitution in Lok Sabha. He had said that the ruling BJP was "here to change the Constitution" and remove the word "secular" from it.

10:14 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi: What is happening today in the country is a web of deceit. The BJP operates on the basic idea that lies can be used for political benefit and it is the difference between us and them, we might not do well. We might even lose but we will not give up truth.

10:14 AM IST

Congress President Rahul Gandhi distributes sweets among children at AICC headquarters on party's 133rd foundation day #Delhi pic.twitter.com/dlh520yP9r

— ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2017

10:11 AM IST

Rahul Gandhi on Congress foundation day: The Constitution, the foundation of our country is under threat. It is under attack directly, statements are being made by senior members of BJP & it is under attack surreptitiously from the back. It is our duty of the Congress and every single Indian to defend it.

10:11 AM IST

Congress President Rahul Gandhi at party headquarters in #Delhi on 133rd foundation day of the party pic.twitter.com/xwMKelqYrt

— ANI (@ANI) December 28, 2017