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Parliament: No proposal to link Aadhaar with social media accounts, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

6.36 pm: Union Minister of Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad says the government has no proposal to link Aadhaar with social media accounts of citizens, reports PTI.

6.30 pm: Lok Sabha passes the Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019. The legislation will put in place a mechanism to ensure transparency in chit fund schemes and protect subscribers.

6.02 pm: Rajya Sabha adjourned till 11.00 am on Thursday.

5.33 pm: Samajwadi Party MP

speaks about Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, reports ANI. She says the provision of certification as a transgender is discriminatory and humiliating. “What’s need to humiliate them like this that you have to go and tell a committee that you’re a transgender,” she asks. “Can’t segregate them this way. Bill doesn’t pay attention to sensitive details that a person can forcibly be made into transgender. Let the bill please go for a revision.”

4.58 pm: The Lok Sabha is now discussing Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2019, for consideration and passage. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is addressing the Lower House.

4.50 pm: Congress MP Rajeev Gowda has told the Rajya Sabha that the Transgender Persons Bill needs to incorporate a proper redress mechanism. “The Bill mentions that establishments will need to have a complaint officer, but there is no clarity on what the functions of the complaint officer...

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