Top Ministers attend PM's high-level meet

New Delhi: A high-level meeting of Union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, S Jaishankar and Nirmala Sitharaman, was held at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's office in Parliament on Thursday.

The meeting was also attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval. Other ministers who attended the meeting were J P Nadda, Piyush Goyal, Hardeep Singh Puri and Sarbananda Sonowal.

P K Mishra, principal secretary to the prime minister, was also present at the meeting. Earlier, Parliament witnessed another politically charged day on Thursday as the Rajya Sabha took up the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026.

In the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State Jitendra Singh introduced the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 for consideration and passage. The Bill, which was approved by the Lok Sabha a day earlier, proposes to tighten the country's anti-paper leak framework by enhancing punishment for offenders, creating a Special Task Force (STF) to investigate examination-related offences and setting up special fast-track courts for the timely disposal of such cases. The Upper House is also expected to deliberate on the Prevention of Insults to National Honour (Amendment) Bill, 2026, with Home Minister Amit Shah scheduled to move the motion for its consideration.