Standing Committee

Farooq Abdullah Welcomes Parliament Panel's Plan To Visit Eastern Ladakh

India News | ANI | Sunday February 14, 2021

National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah on Saturday welcomed the decision of the parliamentary standing committee to visit eastern Ladakh to talk to officers and find out everything, saying that relations between India and China were "old and should remain."

Parliament Panel Plans Visit To Galwan, Pangong Sites; Rahul Gandhi Skips

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday February 13, 2021

The parliamentary standing committee on defence intends to visit the Galwan Valley and the Pangong lake in the eastern Ladakh region which has been witness to a violent standoff between the troops of India and China, sources said.

Parliament Body Welcomes Revised Definition Of Children, Parent, Relative

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday January 30, 2021

Expanding the definition of children, parent and relative in a draft bill will leave no scope for any legal ambiguity, a parliamentary standing committee report said.

3 MPs Walk Out From Parliamentary Panel Meet Over Discussion Demand

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday January 12, 2021

Congress MPs Partap Singh Bajwa and Chhaya Verma and former Akali leader Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa on Monday staged a walkout from a meeting of the Standing Committee on Agriculture after the panel chairman refused to discuss the Centre's three farm laws and their aftermath, sources said.

Bird Flu Hits 10 States, Delhi Sees Loss Of Rs. 2.5 Crore: 10 Points

India News | Reported by Arun Singh, Himanshu Shekhar Mishra, Purva Chitnis, Sukirti Dwivedi, Edited by Swati Bhasin | Monday January 11, 2021

Delhi, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand are the latest to confirm bird flu amid nationwide efforts to contain the spread. Seven other states - Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat - had earlier confirmed Avian Influenza as the cause of the recent bird deaths. Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agricult...

Parliamentary Standing Committee Recommends New Franchise Protection Act For Auto Dealers

Written by Shubham Parashar | Tuesday December 22, 2020

There has been a series of market pull outs in the last three years by major auto makers like General Motors, MAN Trucks (a Volkswagen Group brand) and Harley Davidson among others and investments of their dealers are at stake after these manufacturers have announced exit.

Test Large Sample Size Before Vaccine Cleared For Emergency Use: Panel

India News | Press Trust of India | Monday December 21, 2020

Any vaccine against COVID-19 should be granted emergency use authorisation only after proper consideration and conducting its trials on a sufficient sample size, a parliamentary panel chaired by senior Congress leader Anand Sharma has recommended to the government.

Outrage Over Hyderabad Civic Officials Trying To Gift Themselves iPhones

Hyderabad News | Written by Uma Sudhir | Friday December 18, 2020

An eye-popping order for 17 specced-out iPhones, each costing Rs 1.6 lakh, for senior municipal officials in Hyderabad has been put on hold after outrage. The outgoing standing committee of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, headed by the mayor, had gifted themselves the flashy devices for having approved the annual budget estimates of th...

Why Rahul Gandhi Walked Out Of Meet Discussing Military Uniforms, Ranks

India News | Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Thursday December 17, 2020

Rahul Gandhi and other Congress members walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on defence Wednesday, alleging that they were allowed to speak during a discussion on new uniforms for the armed forces

BJP Rejects Proposal To Set Up Museum For Those Living On Assam Islands

India News | Written by Ratnadip Choudhury | Wednesday October 28, 2020

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Assam has rejected the recommendation of the state assembly's departmentally-related standing committee on education for building a museum in Guwahati to highlight the culture and heritage of the people who live in the "char-chaporis" - the northeastern state's riverine islands or sandbars.

Look Into TRP Scam, Karti Chidambaram Tells House IT Panel Chief Shashi Tharoor

India News | Edited by Harish Pullanoor | Friday October 9, 2020

Congress MP Karti Chidambaram today asked the Parliament's Standing Committee on Information Technology to take up the alleged television rating point (TRP) scam that the Mumbai Police uncovered on Thursday.

"Armed Forces Ready For Anything": General Rawat To MPs On China Row

India News | Reported by Sunil Prabhu, Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan | Friday September 11, 2020

India's armed forces are ready, Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat told the Parliament's Standing Committee on Defence today, even as tensions between India and China remains high following "provocative behaviour" along the LAC.

"Continue Virtual Courts Even After COVID-19 Is Over": Parliament Panel

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday September 11, 2020

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice in its report submitted today recommended continuation of virtual courts for identified categories of cases even after the COVID-19 pandemic is over.

Parliamentary Panel Wants To Know J&K Internet Suspension Impact: Shashi Tharoor

India News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday September 1, 2020

Congress leader and chairman of Parliamentary standing committee on Information and Technology Shashi Tharoor has written to Lok Sabha Speaker that the panel would like to be apprised of the impact of the suspension of internet services on Jammu and Kashmir, while examining evidence from central and state representatives on the issue, as the matter...

Parliamentary Panel On Home Affairs Meets For Record 5 Hours On COVID-19 Management

India News | Press Trust of India | Friday August 28, 2020

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs set a record on Thursday by discussing various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its handling in the National Capital Territory of Delhi for almost five hours without a break.