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Xi Jinping derailed China's path to global power: Report
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Chinese President Xi Jinping, under his leadership, ended up dismantling the collective leadership system, soured Beijing's relations with most of its neighbours and set the country on a collision course with the United States, Robert Wihtol said in a report in the think tank, The National I
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Pak Senate panel approves bill for public hanging of rapists despite oppos
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
The Senate Standing Committee on Interior, led by Senator Mohsin Aziz, deliberated on these changes to remove section D and introduce public hangings as a punishment for rapists, following the high-profile gang-rape incident on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway in September 2020.
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"90 pc of beggars" apprehended abroad belongs to Pakistan: Senate Standing
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
As many as 90 per cent of beggars arrested in foreign countries belongs to Pakistan, reported Dawn.
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'Ganja', cell phones among contraband most frequently smuggled into prison
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
'Ganja' and cell phones are the common contraband items that are most frequently smuggled into the prisons among others, the Department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs raised alarm in its recent report.
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India appeals Commonwealth nations to address climate action needs of Glob
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Emphasising that the world is increasingly facing climate-induced disasters, India has appealed to Commonwealth nations to address the climate action needs of its Global South members.
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States should lay thrust on "women-only prison and women-only staff”, reco
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has recommended that all state governments should have a motto of "women-only prison and women-only staff” to ensure that the fundamental and basic human rights of women prisoners are not violated
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India's glorious space journey Chandrayaan-3 to be discussed in Rajya Sabh
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The discussion will be held soon after the laying of papers and tabling of reports of the standing committee on labour, textiles and skill development as well as the reports of the committee on public accounts.
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Parliamentary panels reconstituted; Rahul remains member of Committee on D
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was reinstated as an MP after losing his membership of the Lok Sabha following his conviction in a criminal defamation case, remains a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence while fellow party colleague and Rajya Sabha MP Jairam R
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It’s not yet known how primary contact contracted Nipah virus infection in
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The key aspect to address right now is how the primary contact contracted the infection which is still unknown, said Indian Medical Association (IMA) Public Health Standing Committee Chairman Dr A Althaf amid the Nipah outbreak in Kerala.
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Challenge to sedition law referred to larger bench by SC
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
A bench of Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra declined the Centre’s request to defer examining the validity of the sedition law as the new Bill (Bharathiya Nyaya Samhita) is pending consideration before a standing committee of Parliament.
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Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs to hear views of domain e
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs will hear the views of domain experts on the examination of three bills, Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023; the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023; and the Bharatiya Sakshya Bill, 2023 on September 11,12 and 13.
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"Crores of rupees used in elections will be saved": BJP's Suvendu Adhikari
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
"This is not something new. A parliament standing committee regarding the feasibility of holding simultaneous elections was earlier made in 2015. I was a member of it. Congress didn't have the courage to implement the proposal, so we are doing it. I was a member of the standing committee, an
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