The Rajya Sabha on Monday approved amendments to the land boundary agreement bill to correct an error in the name of the act. The Constitution (One Hundred and Nineteenth Amendment) Bill, 2013 was passed by the Rajya Sabha earlier this week. The error was in the numbering of the bill as "119th" amendment in the title, while it had become "100th" amendment when it was passed. Numbering of constitutional bills are adhoc and change as not all bills introduced are passed. In the upper house, the change was made in the tit...

Thai authorities on Saturday questioned more than 100 migrants discovered in the country’s south to determine whether they were victims of human trafficking, as Thailand races to meet a deadline to uncover people smuggling camps within its borders. Thirty-three bodies, believed to be migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh, have been found in shallow graves over the past week in Songkhla province. Three suspected trafficking camps were also found. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha announced a 10-day deadline to crack down the illicit trade. O...

The Indian Rajya Sabha today (Wednesday)  passed constitution amendment bill on Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh to settle decades-old boundary disputes with India. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj placed the bill before the Rajya Sabha around 5:00pm, our New Delhi correspondent reports. [caption id="attachment_15701" align="alignleft" width="300"] The Indian parliament building. Photo: Reuters[/caption] The bill has been passed without any major hurdle since there is an...

The Indian cabinet today approved a constitution amendment bill to operationalise Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the meeting held in New Delhi, our correspondent reports. It is however not clear immediately whether the bill includes Indian state of Assam. Earlier, Indian media reported claims that New Delhi decided to introduce a major change in the Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh, keeping Assam out of the purview of the pact, which was strongly opposed by the Congress. THE ASSAM PUR...