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Kazakhstan to hold first legislative election under President Tokayev
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], December 5 (ANI): Legislative elections in Kazakhstan are scheduled to be held on January 10, 2021, to elect the members of the Majilis (a lower house of the Kazakh Parliament) and Maslikhats (local representative bodies) and they will be different from previous e
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Baku to summon French ambassador over Karabakh resolution backed by French
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], December 4 (ANI/Sputnik): The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry on Friday denounced the approval by the French lower house of the resolution on the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and said it would summon the French ambassador in Baku to express its stance on the matter to Paris
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Putin appoints deputy Prime Minister, 5 federal ministers
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], November 11 (ANI): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday appointed a Deputy Prime Minister and five federal ministers approved by the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian diet.
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NLD's Aung San Suu Kyi wins parliamentary seat in Myanmar's general electi
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Yangon [Myanmar], November 10 (ANI/Xinhua): Aung San Suu Kyi, chairperson of the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD), has won a seat in the House of Representatives (Lower House) for the next parliament in Sunday's multiparty general elections, according to an announcement from the Un
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US passes Bill requiring firms to disclose connection with forced labour i
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], October 1 (ANI): Lawmakers from the Lower House of the United States Congress have passed legislation that would require US-listed companies to disclose if their supply chains are connected to forced labour in China's Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region.
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Political compulsions behind opposition boycott of LS proceedings in last
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday praised Opposition parties for cooperating with the chair in the "extraordinary" monsoon session of Parliament but said they had "political compulsions" to boycott the proceedings of the Lower House.
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LS saw 68.65 pc average attendance, 8,700 COVID-19 tests conducted in Parl
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 25 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Friday said that the lower House of parliament saw 68.65 per cent average attendance of members during the monsoon session, which had 10 sittings and was held with precautions against COVID-19.
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Patna SSP, Motihari ASP to appear before Lok Sabha Privilege Committee tom
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI): Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Upendra Kumar and Motihari ASP Shaishav Yadav are scheduled to appear before Lok Sabha Privilege Committee on Thursday as Bihar BJP President and MP Sanjay Jaiswal has moved a motion against both officials
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Congress moves adjournment motion in LS over spike in COVID-19 cases
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): Congress chief whip in Lok Sabha Koddikunil Suresh on Saturday gave an adjournment motion notice in the Lower House on the issue of the rising cases of coronavirus in the country.
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Nepal's only Billionaire- Binod Chaudhary tested COVID-19 positive
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], Aug 29 (ANI): Nepal's only billionaire and member of Lower House representing the Nepali Congress Binod Chaudhary has tested COVID-19 positive on Friday, the industrialist confirmed on a micro-blogging site and urged people who were in his recent contact to take precaution
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US House set to vote on reversing Trump's 'Muslim ban'
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [United States], July 22 (ANI): The lower house of the United States Congress, the House of Representatives is set to vote today (July 22) on a piece of legislation which reverses President Donald Trump's controversial order banning entry to immigrants from mostly Muslim-majority
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US House of Representatives passes $740B bill to scrap Confederate names f
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [United States], July 22 (ANI): The Democrat-led lower House of Representatives of the United States Congress on July 21 passed a $740 billion funding bill, with a provision requiring the names of Confederate soldiers and leaders be stripped from American military bases.
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