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Majority parliamentary panel meetings postponed amid COVID-19 surg
Updated : 3 days, 23 hours ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 16 (ANI): With India witnessing a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in recent days, various meetings of the Parliamentary Standing Committees have been postponed due to the surge in coronavirus infections.
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Pak parliamentary panel endorses jail for criticising armed forces
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 10 (ANI): From Pakistani federal ministers to opposition leaders to the legal fraternity, people from across the divide have criticised the approval of a bill by the country's National Assembly's standing committee, which proposed up to two years imprisonment and
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Parliamentary panel questions legality of new guidelines for OTT,
Updated : 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology (IT) on Monday headed by Congress leader and Loksabha MP Shashi Tharoor questioned the legality of new rules framed by the government to regulate OTT (Over the top) and social media platform
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Furore over Rahul Gandhi's questions on defence in Parliamentary p
Updated : 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): A heated argument took place in the meeting of the Parliamentary standing committee on defence over Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's questions related to defence and procurement on Thursday.
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Rajya Sabha: Attendance of parliamentary panels improves by 15 pc,
Updated : 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 17 (ANI): The functioning of the eight Department Related Parliamentary Standing Committees (DRSCs) of Rajya Sabha has improved substantially with a 15 per cent increase in attendance and more than 16 per cent improvement in the average duration of meetings sin
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Farooq Abdullah hails parliamentary panel's decision to visit East
Updated : 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 13 (ANI): 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
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Lekhi hopes for strict action after notice by government to Twitte
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 4 (ANI): BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi, who heads the parliamentary panel on personal data protection bill, has said that no corporate agency or company can run its business without complying with the rules of the country.
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Twitter, Facebook brief Parliamentary panel over safeguarding citi
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 22 (ANI): The representatives of social media companies - Twitter and Facebook - appeared before parliamentary standing committee for Information and Technology (IT) in connection with "safeguarding citizens' rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news me
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WhatsApp privacy policy change to be discussed in Parliamentary pa
Updated : 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 18 (ANI): Change in WhatsApp privacy policy will be among other issues which will be discussed in the meeting between officials of Facebook and Twitter and the Parliamentary standing committee on Information Technology (IT) on January 21, sources said.
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Parliamentary panel likely to recommend heavy penalties for violat
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
New Delhi [India], January 12 (ANI): The parliamentary panel led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Meenakshi Lekhi which is scrutinizing the Personal Data Protection Bill, is likely to recommend heavy penalties for companies found to be in violation of privacy regulations, said sources o
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Parliamentary Defence panel Chairman meets Speaker, refutes allega
Updated : 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 18 (ANI): The day Congress leader Rahul Gandhi wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking protection of rights of MPs to freedom of speech in a parliamentary panel meeting, Chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on Defence, Jual Oram, reportedly met
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Rahul Gandhi, Congress MPs walk out of meeting of parliamentary pa
Updated : 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 16 (ANI): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other party MPs on Wednesday staged a walkout from the meeting of the parliamentary committee on defence alleging that parliament panel's time was being wasted in discussing uniform of armed forces instead of how to bette
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