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The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways has recommended to the Ministry of Railways that railway concession fares to Senior Citizens - amounting to 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the total fare - be restored at least in the Sleeper Class and AC 3 category.

Top executives of eight domestic tech firms, including Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal, will appear before a key parliamentary panel on Thursday to discuss the market behaviour of technology platforms amid rising anti-competition concerns. BJP leader and former Union minister Jayant Sinha-chaired Parliamentary Stan...

DU has approved the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) and the four-year undergraduate programmes (FYUP) from the 2022-23 academic session

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday chaired a parliamentary consultative committee meeting on the situation in Sri Lanka. He said "unanimous support" is needed to stand with Sri Lanka in its difficult time.

Congress MP KC Venugopal urged Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence Chairman Jual Oram to convene an urgent meeting of all stakeholders and defence experts to discuss in detail the recently announced Agniveer scheme by the Central government.

Repeating its earlier stand, the Madras High Court on Friday insisted that the Police Complaints Committee must be headed by a retired judge of the High Court.

The SAI formed the committee on Monday to investigate the cyclist's complaint on a priority basis and the Cycling Federation of India (CFI) too is standing by its athlete.

Cryptocurrencies can lead to dollarisation of a part of the economy which would be against India’s sovereign interest, top officials of the RBI are said to have warned to a parliamentary panel. Briefing the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, top officials of the RBI pointed out that cryptocurrencies have the potential to be a medium of ...

Trinamool Congress MLA Babul Supriyo was named as the member of the four Standing Committees of the West Bengal Assembly, including that on Home.

Delhi High Court sought the Centre's stand on public interest litigation seeking the constitution of an expert committee for the realisation of the promises made by India at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2021.

After a two-year restriction due to the COVID pandemic, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has recently allowed 100 per cent of passengers capacity in domestic and international airports.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by BJP MP Jayant Sinha, has summoned Senior Officials of SEBI, including the SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Tuesday at 5 pm to discuss important regulatory issues concerning the capital market.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment lamented that there is a substantial gap between the number of schools proposed to be sanctioned and the actual sanction.

A parliamentary standing committee pointed out that the number of beneficiaries under the Free Coaching Scholarship Scheme for students with disabilities has been nil from 2019-2022.

A Parliamentary panel has said that Indian institutes of accounting akin to IITs and IIMs should be set up across the country

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways has recommended to the Ministry of Railways that railway concession fares to Senior Citizens - amounting to 40 per cent to 50 per cent of the total fare - be restored at least in the Sleeper Class and AC 3 category.

Top executives of eight domestic tech firms, including Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma and Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal, will appear before a key parliamentary panel on Thursday to discuss the market behaviour of technology platforms amid rising anti-competition concerns. BJP leader and former Union minister Jayant Sinha-chaired Parliamentary Stan...

DU has approved the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) and the four-year undergraduate programmes (FYUP) from the 2022-23 academic session

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday chaired a parliamentary consultative committee meeting on the situation in Sri Lanka. He said "unanimous support" is needed to stand with Sri Lanka in its difficult time.

Congress MP KC Venugopal urged Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence Chairman Jual Oram to convene an urgent meeting of all stakeholders and defence experts to discuss in detail the recently announced Agniveer scheme by the Central government.

Repeating its earlier stand, the Madras High Court on Friday insisted that the Police Complaints Committee must be headed by a retired judge of the High Court.

The SAI formed the committee on Monday to investigate the cyclist's complaint on a priority basis and the Cycling Federation of India (CFI) too is standing by its athlete.

Cryptocurrencies can lead to dollarisation of a part of the economy which would be against India’s sovereign interest, top officials of the RBI are said to have warned to a parliamentary panel. Briefing the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, top officials of the RBI pointed out that cryptocurrencies have the potential to be a medium of ...

Trinamool Congress MLA Babul Supriyo was named as the member of the four Standing Committees of the West Bengal Assembly, including that on Home.

Delhi High Court sought the Centre's stand on public interest litigation seeking the constitution of an expert committee for the realisation of the promises made by India at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2021.

After a two-year restriction due to the COVID pandemic, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has recently allowed 100 per cent of passengers capacity in domestic and international airports.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by BJP MP Jayant Sinha, has summoned Senior Officials of SEBI, including the SEBI Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch on Tuesday at 5 pm to discuss important regulatory issues concerning the capital market.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Social Justice and Empowerment lamented that there is a substantial gap between the number of schools proposed to be sanctioned and the actual sanction.

A parliamentary standing committee pointed out that the number of beneficiaries under the Free Coaching Scholarship Scheme for students with disabilities has been nil from 2019-2022.

A Parliamentary panel has said that Indian institutes of accounting akin to IITs and IIMs should be set up across the country