Various department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees were reconstituted on Saturday by Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in consultation with Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. ......
The United Arab Emirates is not issuing visas to Pakistanis, a senior interior ministry official told a parliamentary panel on Thursday, revealing that the country narrowly escaped a passport ban......
BJP MP and actor Ravi Kishan has been awarded the Sansad Ratna for his outstanding performance in the Lok Sabha, becoming the first actor-turned-politician to receive the honour. IMAGE: Ravi......
The panel will likely play an important role as the Personal Data Protection Bill gets tabled in Parliament. Photograph: Courtesy Shashi Tharoor/Facebook Congress leader Shashi Tharoor will head......
Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday nominated former home minister and Congress member P Chidambaram to the department-related parliamentary standing committee on home affairs. IMAGE:......
Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Saturday said that the market forces decide the value of rupee with respect to the US dollar and the central bank is not worried about day-to-day movement......
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said she is likely to introduce the new income tax bill, which will replace the six-decade-old I-T Act, in the Lok Sabha in the coming week.......
The famous 'tareekh pe tareekh' dialogue from the Hindi movie Damini captures where we are now. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff 'A comprehensive law like the IBC is often viewed as a last......
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday the proposed Bill on micro-finance institutions will provide adequate legislative framework for development and regulation of the sector.The Micro......
Security and Exchange Board of India, Chairman C B Bhave and representatives from the Reserve Bank and Corporate Affairs Ministry are likely to brief the Parliamentary standing committee on finance......
Under fire over allegations of foreign exchange violations in IPL, BCCI's top officials o Wednesday blamed sacked Commissioner Lalit Modi for "mistakes" as they told a Parliamentary panel that they......
Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president Rajiv Shukla says there is "nothing wrong" with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by Yashwant Sinha, summoning its......
How do cheer girls promote the cause of cricket? Why are players auctioned like "gladiators" in IPL system of cricket? These were some of the questions members of the Parliamentary Standing......