Yangon, April 22, 2012 Myanmar democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi and elected members of her party on Sunday announced they will postpone attending parliament until changes are made to the swearing-in oath to the country’s pro-military constitution. “It is 100 per cent certain they will not attend on Monday, but we are not sure about the next days,” National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman Nyan Win said. NLD leader Suu Kyi and 36 other members of Myanmar’s main ...
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Islamabad, March 17, 2012 President Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday said India and Pakistan must address “difficult issues” like the Kashmir dispute even as they move forward with measures to open up trade. “Important steps have been taken to open up trade between India and Pakistan,” Mr. Zardari said during his address to a joint session of the Senate and National Assembly as he outlined policies for his government’s final year in office. “But we must also ...
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New Delhi, March 13, 2012 Government today sought to mollify agitated DMK and AIADMK members who demanded India’s support to a resolution at UNHCHR against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes saying no date has been fixed yet for discussing the matter. “Our traditional stand has been that we have never supported any country-specific resolution at the UNHCHR,” Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha as DMK, AIADMK and CPI members rushed to the Well raising slogans on ...
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TEHRAN, March 3, 2012 The younger sister of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday failed to win a parliamentary seat in Mr. Ahmadinejad’s hometown as the President’s conservative rivals won a big portion of the seats in early returns. The ‘semi-official’ Mehr news agency reported the final results from a small town southeast of the capital showing that Parvin Ahmadinejad was defeated by her conservative rival. Parvin Ahmadinejad was running for a seat in ...
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New Delhi, February 16, 2012. A Parliamentary panel will meet on Friday to discuss the report on the Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Bill, understood to have favoured raising Income Tax exemption limit to Rs. 3 lakh. “The Standing Committee on Finance will meet tomorrow to discuss the full report on the DTC Bill,” sources said. Last week, the meeting of the Committee chaired by senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha considered the draft of the report on the ...
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CAIRO, January 24, 2012 It was a raucous beginning for Egypt’s first democratically elected parliament in 60 years. Islamist lawmakers added religious references to the oath of office. Liberal lawmakers improvised too, adding a pledge to protect the “revolution” that ousted Hosni Mubarak. Some wore scarves with words protesting military trials for civilians. Shouting matches erupted. Hundreds massed outside, calling on the ruling generals to step down. And millions ...
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Chennai, June 10, 2011. The tabling of a Bill to establish an independent Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India in the monsoon session of Parliament will pave the way for a significant expansion of the country’s nuclear power programme, National Security Adviser, Shiv Shankar Menon, said on Friday. Presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award instituted by the Department of Atomic Energy to N. Srinivasan, Mr. Menon said the Bill would create the Nuclear Regulatory Authority of India as ...
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New Delhi, June 6, 2011 (PTI) Accusing the UPA government of attacking civil liberties, a delegation of BJP-led NDA met President Pratibha Patil to demand convening of a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue of black money and police action against Baba Ramdev and his supporters. A delegation of NDA leaders led by BJP Parliamentary Party Chairman L.K. Advani met the President and handed over a memorandum demanding immediate convening of a special session of Parliament and ...
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New Delhi, June 6, 2011(PTI) BJP on Monday said it will hold peaceful protests across the country against the crackdown on Baba Ramdev’s agitation and meet President Pratibha Patil to demand convening of a special session of Parliament to discuss the issue. The party, whose top leaders inlcuding BJP President Nitin Gadkari are holding a satyagraha at Rajghat, accused the governent of “shielding and protecting” the corrupt. “We would seek the intervention of the President. We ...
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Islamabad, May 14, 2011 Pakistan has been an important but uneasy partner of the U.S. in the fight against terrorism, and has faced growing anti-Western sentiment at home. Pakistan’s parliament early Saturday condemned the breach of sovereignty by the United States in its raid on terrorist leader Osama bin Laden earlier this month, reports said. The lawmakers also recommended that an independent commission investigate the failures of Pakistan’s own security forces in the May 2 ...
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New Delhi, April 17, 2011 In an apparent softening of stand, social activist Anna Hazare on Sunday said Parliament was supreme and would accept its decision if it rejects the Lokpal Bill. Mr. Hazare also showed some flexibility on the August 15 deadline he had set for passage of the Lokpal Bill by Parliament saying he was open to extending it if he found that the government was on the right path. “We will have to accept it. We believe in democracy,” Mr. Hazare said in reply to a ...
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New Delhi, March 24, 2011 The controversial Antrix-Devas deal will now come under the scrutiny of a Parliamentary panel. Parliament’s Committee on Estimates has decided to examine the allocation of S-band spectrum by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) with special reference to the Antrix-Devas deal, an official said. The government had last month annulled the controversial deal between ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation and Bangalore-based Devas Multimedia for lease ...
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New Delhi, March 22, 2011 The BJP and the Congress created pandemonium in Parliament today over WikiLeaks expose and alleged irregularities in VSNL disinvestment during NDA regime but in the din, the government managed to introduce the landmark GST Bill in the Lok Sabha. After giving privilege notices against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for allegedly misleading Parliament on the WikiLeaks exposé , the main Opposition pressed for immediate discussion on the issue in both the Lok ...
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New Delhi, March 18, 2011 \The Wikileaks expose on the alleged ’cash-for-votes’ scam in 2008 today disrupted Parliament proceedings, as a united Opposition demanded a clarification from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the matter. Soon after the Lok Sabha assembled, Speaker Meira Kumar asked Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj to move a calling attention on the problems being faced by Indian fishermen due to frequent attacks by Srilankan Navy. However, Ms. Swaraj said “The ...
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March 16, 2011 New Delhi: There was ruckus in the Rajya Sabha today following protests by the BJP members over the Income Tax Department's notice to the Narendra Modi government regarding MoUs signed during the Vibrant Gujarat Summit. The party, joined by BJD and JD(U), forced adjournment of the House till noon after the Leader of Opposition, Arun Jaitley, strongly objected to the I-T department seeking details of MoUs between investors and the state government during the summit held in ...
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New Delhi, March 3, 2011 The issue of a separate Telangana rocked Parliament on Thursday with the Lok Sabha failing to transact any business as members from the TRS, the BJP and Congress representatives from the region made a common cause over the demand. The Lok Sabha was adjourned for six times before being adjourned for the day at 3.15 p.m. The Rajya Sabha failed to take up Question Hour as the House was adjourned twice over the issue till Zero Hour. It was trouble from the ...
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Feb 28, 2011,MANAMA: Hundreds of anti-government protesters have blocked access to Bahrain's parliament and forced officials to cancel a meeting of the ruler's hand-picked envoys. The demonstration appears part of a strategy to hold rallies at sensitive locations in the capital Manama. The idea is to boost pressure on the monarchy following two weeks of marches and clashes that have left seven dead. The parliament became a target Monday to coincide with a meeting called by the ...
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Feb 25 2011, New Delhi: After vociferous protests by BJP in both Houses of Parliament, the Government on Friday said "any excess" by the police during an agitation by BJP workers in the capital would be examined. Home Minister P Chidambaram said in the Rajya Sabha during Zero Hour that he was "sorry" if any political worker was injured on Thursday but maintained that such incidents happen due to "breach of understanding". Earlier, the Question Hour could not take place in Rajya ...
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24/2/2011 Dr. D.R.SINGH MEMORIAL BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE started with full zeal at PCTE GROUP OF INSTITUTES at Campus-II, Ludhiana. This event is been organized by Ludhiana Management Association, (LMA). The inaugural ceremony took place at PCTE Campus-2 in the morning. Dr. K.N.S.Kang General secretary, LMA, Mr. Mahesh Munjal, Ex-President LMA, Dr. S.B.Singh, Ex-Principal, GNE and the sponsor of the debate series Mr. Inderjit Nagpal of M/s Haveli Ram Bansi Lal, Ludhiana were present ...
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LUDHIANA, February 23: Ludhiana MP and the national spokesperson of the Indian National Congress Manish Tewari today questioned the dual standards of the Bhartiya Janata Party on various issues particularly the corruption and terror, saying while the party preached one thing it practised something else. Speaking during the thanks motion on the President’s address in the parliament today, Tewari regretted that too much politics was done during the last four months primarily targeting the ...
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