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Massive protests near Nepal parliament over petrol price hike
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 23 (ANI): In the wake of the recent petrol price hike, the members of the Youth Association of Nepal and the Youth Union of the opposition, Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) on Thursday evening clashed with police near the parliament while pr
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Israeli parliament moves forward bill to dissolve
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 22 (ANI/Xinhua): Israeli lawmakers voted in favor of a bill to dissolve parliament in a preliminary vote on Wednesday, taking the first step in sending the country for its fifth elections in three years.
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Presidential polls: Yashwant Sinha to file nomination on June 27; Oppn to
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 22 (ANI): Yashwant Sinha, a former Union Minister and the joint opposition candidate for the presidential election will file his nomination on June 27 in the Parliament with five sets of nominations.
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Israel heading to new elections after shaky coalition collapses
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], June 21 (ANI/Xinhua): Israel's fragile coalition government will vote to dissolve the parliament next week, announced Israel's Prime Minister's Office on Monday, sending the country to the fifth elections in three years.
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Parliamentary panel gets extension for examining Child Marriage (Amendment
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu has granted an extension to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth and Sports for Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill 2021, which proposes to raise the minimum age of marriag
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Sri Lanka: Ceylon Electricity Board head quits; apologizes after alleging
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], June 14 (ANI): The Chairman of Sri Lanka's Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), M M C Ferdinando has resigned days after he alleged before the parliamentary panel that Prime Minister Narendra Modi influenced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to award a wind power project to the Ad
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Bilawal slams Shehbaz govt, forms committee as TTP announces ceasefire
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 13 (ANI): Upon Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) announcement of a ceasefire, Foreign Minister and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday slammed the Shehbaz government and formed a three-membered committee as he decided to take up
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Jaishankar to brief MEA Consultative Committee on Sri Lanka crisis
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will brief the Parliamentary Consultative Committee on External Affairs on June 18 over the ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka.
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Delhi court sends 30 AIMIM activists to 3-day judicial custody over protes
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): The Patiala House Court on Friday sent 30 All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) activists to three days of judicial custody in connection with the demonstration at the Parliament Police Station over inflammatory remarks by suspended BJP leader Nupur
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Voting for Rajya Sabha elections begins in 4 states
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): Polling to elect members of the Upper House of the Parliament on 16 Rajya Sabha seats spread across four states - Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Haryana- began on Friday morning.
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Political chaos continues in Pakistan at executive level, Prez Alvi return
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 10 (ANI): The tiff between former and current governments have only deepened with time as President Arif Alvi returned the amendments to Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for "reconsideration" that were approved by the joint session of the parliament on Thursd
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Polling set to take place for Rajya Sabha elections today amid poaching sp
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 10 (ANI): The polling to elect the members of the Upper House of the Parliament on 16 Rajya Sabha seats spread across four states will take place today amid speculations of horse-trading and fears of cross-voting.
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