Monsoon Session of Parliament, Day 14: Live updates

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress held their Parliamentary party meetings ahead of Parliament proceedings for the day. BJP President Amit Shah, Union Ministers Ananth Kumar, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prakash Javadekar among others attended the meeting at Parliament library building. On the other hand, Congress President Rahul Gandhi along with other party leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia, KC Venugopal and Ranjeet Ranjan attended the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting.

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• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:38 AM IST

  Rajya Sabha has been adjourned till noon after uproar by members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) over Deoria shelter home case. 

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:21 AM IST

  Lok Sabha schedule for the day:

  Supplementary Demands For Grants Rajya Sabha:
  Bills for Consideration and Passing:
  *The National Sports University Bill, 2018
  *The Homeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill, 2018
  * The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Second Amendment) Bill, 2018 

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:11 AM IST

  Amid cases of rapes at shelter homes in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, RJD, SP and CPI MPs protested in Parliament premises.

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:10 AM IST

  TDP members are continuing to keep up the pressure on the Centre over their demand for a special status for Andhra Pradesh.

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:08 AM IST

  The National Commission for Backward Classes (Repeal) Bill, 2017 and the Constitution (123rd Amendment) Bill, 2017 to grant the National Commission on Backward Classes (NCBC) a constitutional status, was passed in Rajya Sabha on Monday. A day later, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati hoped that the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2018 will be passed in the upper house. "We expect that the Schedule Caste and Schedule Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill, 2018, that has been passed in Lok Sabha, will also be passed in Rajya Sabha. Although the Bill was implemented late our party welcomes it. Our party gives credit of implementation of this Bill to ST/SC people of the country which includes BSP supporters too, who successfully conducted Bharat Bandh on April 2 and pressurised the Centre and BJP govt to retain the earlier provisions of the Bill," Mayawati said.

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:03 AM IST

  Congress President Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders including Jyotiraditya Scindia, KC Venugopal and Ranjeet Ranjan attended the Congress Parliamentary Party meeting on Tuesday.

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:02 AM IST

  PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Union Ministers Ananth Kumar, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Prakash Javadekar attend the BJP Parliamentary party meeting at Parliament library building.

• Tue, Aug 7, 2018, 11:00 AM IST

  To corner the Centre, the TMC has given an adjournment notice in Lok Sabha over the exit of fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi.