The 42-day-long Budget Session of Parliament begins from Monday and will have 28 sittings. During this period, Railway Minister Sadanand Gowda and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will present the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government's first Railway and General Budgets on July 8 and July 10 respectively.

The Economic Survey will be released on July 9. The session will end on August 14.

Here are the live updates -

The reasons given by the govt for rail fare hike are not acceptable so TMC decided to walk out after taking part in discussion, Derek O'Brien of the TMC says.


Congress, BSP, CPI-M stage walkout in Rajya Sabha expressing dissatisfaction with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's reply on price rise.


There is sufficient supply of onion and potato, there is no need for panic, assures Finance Minister.


Attacking the erstwhile UPA govt, Jaitley says prices of essential commodities rose during the Congress regime, NDA govt is trying to control them.