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Rajya Sabha: Attendance of parliamentary panels improves by 15 pc, meeting
Updated : 5 years 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 Eastern Lada
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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 Twitter over d
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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 citizens' ri
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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 panel's me
Updated : 5 years, 1 month 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 violators in P
Updated : 5 years, 2 months 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 allegations le
Updated : 5 years, 2 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 panel on d
Updated : 5 years, 3 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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Venkaiah Naidu receives two action taken reports from Parliamentary panel
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 30 (ANI): Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday received two action taken reports from Jairam Ramesh, Chairman of the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forest and Climate Change
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Lack of testing facilities in rural areas resulted in underreporting of CO
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 21 (ANI): A parliamentary panel has lauded the ramping up of COVID-19 testing facilities in the country but noted that the testing facilities are mainly limited to bigger districts and cities and "lack of testing facilities in rural areas has also resulted in the
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Parliamentary Panel questions Twitter over comic Kunal Kamra's tweets on C
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 19 (ANI): The central government has sought a reply from Twitter within a week on why it has not yet taken action against the "offensive tweets" by stand-up comic Kunal Kamra which targeted Chief Justice of India and the Supreme Court.
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Parliamentary panel seeks info from app companies on data breach check pro
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 7 (ANI): A Joint Parliamentary panel on Friday sought details from mobile application-based companies about their protocols to check data breach.
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