Tokyo [Japan], January 4 (ANI/Sputnik): Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Tuesday he won't make any overseas visits before the regular parliamentary session in mid-January due to the spread of COVID-19 both in Japan and around the world.
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The only woman member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports Sushmita Dev on Monday wrote to the Committee Chairperson Vinay Sahayabuddhe to invoke Rule 84 (1) to enable women MPs to testify before Committee
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote a letter to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu raising concern over the inclusion of only one woman in the Parliamentary panel that will examine the Prohibition on Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill seeking to increase th
New Delhi [India], January 3 (ANI): The parliamentary panel headed by BJP's Rajya Sabha MP Vinay Sahastrabuddhe, to which the Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill that seeks to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 has been referred to, will start its deliberat
Jakarta [Indonesia], January 3 (ANI): Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy will ratify its membership of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) after seeking parliamentary approval.
Cape Town [South Africa], January 2 (ANI/ Sputnik): South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that someone was being held for questioning in connection with a massive fire that erupted at the parliamentary precinct in the early hours of Sunday morning with no casualties.
New Delhi [India], January 1 (ANI): A Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs' scheduled one-week study trip to Hyderabad and Goa has been postponed due rise in COVID-19 cases in the country.
New Delhi [India], December 31 (ANI): A review report has found that eight department-related Parliamentary Standing Committees, whose chairman are appointed by the Rajya Sabha chairman, have improved their performance from September 2020 to September 2021 in terms of meetings and attendance
New Delhi [India], December 29 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah will virtually inaugurate and lay the foundation stone of various developmental projects worth Rs 49.36 crores in his parliamentary constituency Gandhinagar in Gujarat on Wednesday.
Beirut [Lebanon], December 27 (ANI/Sputnik): Lebanese Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi said on Monday that parliamentary elections in the country will be held on May 15, while nationals living abroad will be able to cast their votes on May 6 or 8.
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh indulged in a war of words on Twitter over the suspension of 12 opposition MPs as latter said that the onus is on the Centre to ensure that Parliament functions smooth
New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi on Sunday slammed Congress MP Jairam Ramesh and his colleagues for allegedly indulging in hooliganism during this year's monsoon session.