Tag: Parliamentary

New Delhi: The head of an Indian parliamentary panel accused Twitter of disrespecting New Delhi’s sovereignty on Wednesday, after mapping data showed Indian-ruled territory as part of China in what the social network said was a quickly resolved mistake. Twitter executives appeared before the Joint Committee on the Personal ...

Federal Minister for Law and Justice Farogh Naseem said the bill has been introduced in compliance with directives of the ICJ. A Pakistani parliamentary panel has approved a government bill that seeks a review of the conviction of death-row prisoner Kulbhushan Jadhav, complying with the directives of the International ...

File photo of Kulbhushan Jadhav. Fifty-year-old retired Indian Navy officer Jadhav was sentenced to death by a Pakistani military court on charges of espionage and terrorism in April 2017.PTI ISLAMABADLast Updated: October 22, 2020, 12:29 ISTFOLLOW US ON:A Pakistani parliamentary panel has approved a government bill that seeks a ...

Pakistan’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law and Justice passed a government bill on Wednesday evening that seeks to review the conviction of Indian naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has been sentenced to death by a military court for alleged involvement in spying.Farogh Naseem, minister for law and justice, told ...

Pak failed to protect religious minorities from forced conversions, parliamentary committee saidIslamabad: A parliamentary committee in Pakistan has said that the country has not fulfilled its responsibility to protect religious minorities from forced conversions, according to a media report on Tuesday.The parliamentary committee on forced religious conversions headed by ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ultra-nationalist government, now in its second innings, will go down in history as one of the most centralised, top-down and one-person-centric government commanding a super-majority in Parliament. India’s grand old party and the current opposition party, Indian National Congress, has an identity crisis. Not only ...

New Delhi:  Amid a prolonged standoff between India and China along the LAC in Ladakh, Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat on Friday appeared before a parliamentary panel on defence. While the official agenda for the meeting was listed as ‘provision and monitoring of the quality of ration and ...

Why Past Experience With Investigative JPCs Don’t Inspire Much ConfidenceAny questions regarding the functioning of the committee will be determined by a majority of the members present and voting as per Rule 261 of the Lok Sabha Rules. Therefore, it will be entirely in the hands of the ruling ...

Shashi Tharoor, the chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology, has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking to allow the panel to hold a discussion on the suspension of high-speed internet services in Jammu and Kashmir, PTI reported on Monday. The Congress leader said the ...