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Twitter apologises for showing Leh, J-K in China
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 29 (ANI): Days after its location tag in a live broadcast showed Leh and Jammu and Kashmir as part of China, Twitter tendered a verbal apology before India's joint parliamentary committee on personal data protection on Thursday.
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Enough ration stock even for additional troops at LAC, CDS Rawat assured p
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat assured the members of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence, which met on Friday that the Army is well-stocked under any situation.
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Congress alleges bias by Facebook in favour of BJP, seeks JPC probe
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 31 (ANI): Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe into the allegation of Facebook's "complicity" in favour the BJP and said the Congress will not allow India's hard-won democracy "to be manipulated an
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BJP, Facebook's close relationship have been revealed: Congress
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 29 (ANI): The Congress on Saturday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the Facebook row and claimed that in the last 10 days it has been revealed that the two have a close tie.
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Parliamentary committee business not to be leaked with media: RS Chairman
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 27 (ANI): Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has written to chairpersons of parliamentary standing committees asking them to ensure proceedings of panel meetings related to the subject matters or legislative bills under their consideration and
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COVID-19: Parliamentary Panel for Home Affairs to meet on Wednesday
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 18 (ANI): The Parliamentary Committee for Home Affairs will meet on August 19 to discuss the COVID-19 situation in the country.
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Constitute Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe nexus between BJP and Fa
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 17 (ANI): Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday demanded constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe allegations of a nexus between the BJP and Facebook.
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About two crore tourism jobs at risk, revenue loss could be Rs 1.58 lakh c
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 17 (ANI): An estimated two crore direct and indirect jobs related to tourism industry in the country could be lost due to COVID-19 and the revenue loss could be Rs 1.58 lakh crore in the worst case, a parliamentary panel was told on Monday by Tourism ministry officials
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Home Secretary to brief parliamentary panel on COVID-19 management on July
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 10 (ANI): Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla will brief the Parliamentary Committee on Home Affairs on the coronavirus management on July 15.
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Nepal's Parliamentary Committee supports amendment in Citizenship Act, Par
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 21 (ANI): A parliamentary committee meeting held on Sunday has voted in favour of new citizenship act which proposes 7-year threshold for foreign women to get naturalized citizenship after marrying a Nepali citizen.
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Venkaiah Naidu, Om Birla hold discussion on virtual meetings of parliament
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): On the first day of the fourth phase of lockdown, Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a meeting here on Monday in the chamber of the Chairman and discussed the issue of virtual meetings of parliamentary committees among o
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Congress' Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury appointed as chairperson of PAC
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi, [India], May 5 (ANI): Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has been appointed as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) for the term beginning on May 1, 2020, and ending on April 30, 2021.
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