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‘Two attacks a day’: Why India is one of most dangerous places for Christians https://efe.com/en/other-news/2023-12-14/two-attacks-a-day-why-india-is-one-of-most-dangerous-places-for-christians/ 14 December 2023 A report released on Thursday by an advocacy group said Christians in India faced at least two attacks daily, shedding light on the alarming rate of violence against religious minorities in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet for Christians.

From January to November 2023, the United Christian Forum (UCF) said it had received reports of 687 incidents of violence against Christians in 23 states of India.

सुरक्षा पर चर्चा माँगी तो मिला निलंबन | 15 MPs suspended over Parliament security debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da7E5NiUXPw 15 MPs have been suspended from Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. All these MPs are from the opposition and were demanding a statement from the Prime Minister and the Home Minister in the House. Such a big incident has happened, should the Prime Minister and the Home Minister not give a statement? If there was a threat to the lives of MPs, then why was there so much objection in responding? MPs say that one of the MPs who was suspended was suspended even though he was not inside the House. However, news of many lapses in the security of Parliament is coming to the fore and in the name of fixing responsibility, the opposition continues to be cornered.

What helped two men dodge layers of security inside Parliament House https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/what-helped-two-men-dodge-layers-of-security-inside-parliament-house-9067409/
A senior police officer confirmed that a meeting was conducted and discussions were held to increase deployment, but said it was not connected to Pannun’s threat. Over the past month, Delhi Police has increased deployment from 250 personnel to 300

संसद सुरक्षा पर सवाल पूछने पर 15 सांसदों का निलंबन? इतना डर बीजेपी ? | Abhisar Sharma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KucI-TggrGg

Parliament Security breach : अमित शाह और मोदी मौन, 15 विपक्षी सांसद सस्पेंड ? Ajit Anjum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0cLP1xYu0Y   Attempts to link the intruders to Congress or Left  or even "certain youtube jounralist.

Today's News items :

The Centre informed the Lok Sabha on Monday that there is no proposal to consider restoring the Old Pension System (OPS) for its employees.
It also reiterated that the law does not permit refunding the back-accumulated money of employees to the State government in case of going back to OPS.
“There is no proposal under consideration of the Government of India for the restoration of the old pension scheme in respect of Central Government employees recruited on or after 01.01.2004,” Minister of State in the Finance Ministry Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply in Lok Sabha. However, he admitted that Representations have been received from time to time, which include the request for the restoration of the old pension scheme.
-Business Line

Against an aggregate loan write-off of Rs 10.42 lakh crore, PSBs have recovered just Rs 1.61 lakh crore from written-off loans, since financial year 2014-15. PSBs could not recover even Re 1 as against Rs 5 written-off during nine fiscal years starting 2014-15, data presented in the Lok Sabha on Monday showed
-Business Line

Any move by states to shift to the old pension scheme (OPS) would raise their fiscal burden by 4.5 times their expenditure under the NPS retirement benefits, according to the Reserve bank of India estimates made in study of state government budgets. “Internal estimates suggest that if all the State governments revert to OPS from the National Pension System (NPS), the cumulative fiscal burden could be as high as 4.5 times that of NPS, with the additional burden reaching 0.9 per cent of GDP annually by 2060” said the report titled “ State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2023-24” released on Monday.
-Economic Times