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India | Oct 08, 2022, 12:47 PM
Religious conversion event row: The minister's remarks came after a video clip purportedly showing Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam at an event where hundreds took a pledge to convert to Buddhism while denouncing Hindu deities went viral.
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India | Sep 18, 2022, 07:49 AM
Rijiju said appointments in the higher judiciary are "pending", but "not due to Law Minister but due to the system".
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India | Aug 05, 2022, 10:59 AM
Law Minister Kiren Rijiju also wrote that the Election Commission has informed that no complaints were received from the political parties regarding data leaks during elections in the last five years.
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India | Jul 26, 2022, 11:37 PM
Rijuju's statement 'Party's ideology is country's ideology' was strongly objected to by the opposition Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MPs.
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India | Jul 16, 2022, 02:44 PM
Kiren Rijiju said mother tongue should not be considered lesser than English and asserted that he does not subscribe to the view that a lawyer should get more respect, cases, or fees only because he speaks more in English.
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India | Jul 03, 2022, 03:06 PM
The apex court made strong verbal observations on Nupur Sharma's comments on a televised debate that actually opened up a can of worms with Nupur facing threats and also having FIRs filed against her across the country.
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India | Jun 17, 2022, 09:39 PM
The notifications are part of the Election Laws (Amendment) Act, 2021 passed by Parliament late last year. Law Minister Kiren Rijiju took to Twitter to announce that four notifications in this regard have been issued in consultation with the Election Commission.
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India | May 12, 2022, 02:56 PM
Reacting to his remarks, Chidambaram said the Law Minister of India has no authority to draw any "arbitrary Lakshman Rekha" and should read Article 13 of the Constitution.
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India | May 11, 2022, 06:53 PM
Rijiju's remarks came after Rahul Gandhi had welcomed the Supreme Court's decision to put on hold the sedition law.
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India | May 11, 2022, 03:43 PM
In its significant order on the law that has been under intense public scrutiny, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said there was a need to balance the interest of civil liberties and interests of citizens with that of the state.
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India | Apr 05, 2022, 06:37 PM
Kiren Rijiju hit back at an opposition MP who accused the government of giving away Indian territory "bit by bit to China".
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India | Mar 20, 2022, 05:57 PM
BJP's central observer for Manipur, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that N Biren Singh will remain the state's chief minister after he was unanimously elected as legislative party leader.
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India | Mar 20, 2022, 11:12 AM
BJP's central leadership will be accompanied by Manipur caretaker CM N Biren Singh, BJP leader Biswajit Singh who are camping in New Delhi discussing govt formation with the party's top leadership.
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India | Jan 28, 2022, 07:53 PM
Countering Ansari, Rijiju said some isolated incidents do take place at individual-community level "but Indian culture is always inclusive."Before 2014, communal riots and violence were regular but India is more peaceful now", said Kiren Rijiju.
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India | Jan 27, 2022, 03:50 PM
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has handed over the missing 17-year-old boy from Arunachal Pradesh to the Indian Army.
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India | Jan 26, 2022, 03:13 PM
19-year-old Miram Taron of Jido Village in Upper Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh was found missing on January 18.
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India | Jan 11, 2022, 01:19 PM
Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security breach during his recent visit to Punjab, Saina had tweeted, "No nation can claim itself to be safe if the security of its own PM gets compromised. I condemn, in the strongest words possible, the cowardly attack on PM Modi by anarchists."
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India | Dec 29, 2021, 03:38 PM
Encouraging tourism in the north-eastern state, Rijiju even shared a few pictures and hashtaged it #DekhoApnaDesh
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India | Dec 11, 2021, 06:48 PM
The law minister on Friday said in Lok Sabha that the Ministry of Home Affairs has no proposal under consideration to scrap Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) dealing with sedition.
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India | Nov 27, 2021, 09:15 PM
During his speech, Rijiju also urged to think about how a law becomes difficult to implement despite getting passed by the Supreme Court, High Court, Assembly or Parliament.