With Rajya Sabha clearing two agriculture reform Bills amid protests by Opposition MPs, PM Modi assuring farmers that MSP will remain – Sunday was packed with groundbreaking news stories. Below are the day’s biggest headlines:
Farm Bills cleared in Parliament amid massive uproar by Opposition
The Rajya Sabha on Sunday passed the two contentious farm Bills by a voice vote amid massive uproar by the Members of Parliament and protests led by farmers in Punjab and Haryana.
The Farmers’ and Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 were cleared in Parliament. The Bills were passed in the Lok Sabha late Thursday night by a voice vote.
PM assures farmers says ‘MSP system will remain’, BJP calls Opposition’s conduct in RS ‘attack on democracy’
After Rajya Sabha passed two farm Bills ensuring marketing freedom to farmers amidst ruckus by the opposition parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated that the MSP system will remain and government procurement will continue.
Taking to his Twitter, the PM said: “I said it earlier and I say it once again: System of MSP will remain. Government procurement will continue. We are here to serve our farmers. We will do everything possible to support them and ensure a better life for their coming generations.”
The upper house witnessed massive ruckus with TMC MP Derek O’Brien tearing up the documents.
GST compensation row: 21 states prefer option 1, no takers for option 2
As many as 21 states are in favour of option 1 to make up for GST compensation shortfall, under which states will have to borrow Rs97,000 cr at an affordable interest from the RBI under a special window coordinated by Finance Ministry. States like Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Puducherry, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh have conveyed to they centre that they prefer to opt for borrowing under option one opposed by the GST council to meet their compensation shortfall.
CGI approves commercial launch of low cost COVID-19 test ‘FELUDA’ – Know how it works
The Drug Controller General of India has approved the first indigenous test for COVID-19, developed by Tata. The test is low-cost, and can provide similar results to the RT-PCR test, but with a shorter turnaround time.
US ban on TikTok delayed while China launches “unreliable entities list”: All you need to know
A report by Reuters has stated that Trump has stated that the deal will allow TikTok to continue its operations in the United States.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he supports the deal with TikTok owner ByteDance, Oracle, and Walmart. The ban was scheduled to take effect today.
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