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  The NDPS (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed by a voice vote and some amendments moved by opposition members were rejected Lok Sabha on Monday passed a bill to rectify errors that had crept into the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Act with Finance Minister  Nirmala Sitharaman  asserting that the retrospective provision made in the bill was not substantive in nature. The NDPS (Amendment) Bill, 2021 was passed by a voice vote and some amendments moved by opposition members were rejected by the House. Responding to concerns raised by members that the provision for implementing the law with retrospective effect was in violation of Article 20 (1) of the Constitution, Sitharaman said according to the opinion of the Solicitor General, the amendment could be permitted as it was not substantive, but clarificatory in nature. She said the retrospective amendment was allowed as the government did not want to create a new law but only correct a mistake… Read Mor...

  DMK will hold a protest outside the Raj Bhavan to demand Tamil Nadu Governor give his immediate assent to the bill for reservation to government school students in medical college admissions DMK President M.K. Stalin on Thursday said his party will hold a massive protest outside the Raj Bhavan on Saturday to demand Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit give his immediate assent to the bill for reservation to government school students in medical college admissions. Stalin made the announcement after he received a reply to his letter in this regard from the Governor on Thursday. In his letter, Purohit had said that he needs three to four weeks time to arrive at a decision on the Bill that provides 7.5 per cent horizontal reservation in medical college admissions to those who had studied in government schools. “The same has also been informed to the delegation of Ministers who called on me recently,” he told Stalin. Stalin, who is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly,...