Jharkhand Affairs
Hazaribagh rail connectivity with Ranchi soon: Jayant
The Hazaribag Member of Parliament and former central minister Jayant Sinha on Monday said that that Hazaribag will be connected with rail route via Barkakana very soon. The four long route train will pass through Hazaribag RAILWAY station very soon.
Sinha further said that on the voice of Hazaribag and Ramgarh, the work to complete the Hazaribag railway line was in progress. This is efforts of the both the district that the track has been ready to start the long train route be possible.
The project is with the amount of Rs 3800 crores. The train between Barkakana and Ranchi will pass through the four tunnels and save the time of at least two hours. The public of Hazaribag will reach to Ranchi by train less than the time taken by the bus by road.
National and International Affairs
Rajya Sabhas productivity during winter session 102%:The final day of the winter session, the Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die, with a productivity score of 102%.Jagdeep Dhankhar, the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, claims that in 13 sittings, functional time was 64 hours and 50 minutes as opposed to the entire allocated time of 63 hours and 26 minutes, and productivity was 102%.
1,920 unstarred questions were answered in the 13 sittings, while 82 starred questions were resolved.
After 28 hours of debate in which 160 members participated, nine bills were ultimately passed or returned during the session.
Although the term House of Elders is not listed in the official lexicon, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar had noted in my opening address on December 7 that it adequately captured the significance of this institution.
Spain passes new transgender law:The lower house of the Spanish Parliament approved a measure allowing individuals over the age of 16 to change their legally recorded gender without the need for medical supervision. According to the law, drafted by the center-left coalition government, minors between the ages of 14 and 16 must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians and those between the ages of 12 and 13 will require a judges permission to make the move.
The law also abolishes a restriction that banned lesbian couples from registering their children under both parents names and forbids the use of so-called conversion therapies to repress sexual orientation or gender identity.
Up until recently, transgender individuals required the diagnosis of gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder in which the patient does not feel that their biological sex matches their gender identity.