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Thursday, July 24, 2025
TopicParliamentary Committee

Topic: Parliamentary Committee

Opposing invite to Medha Patkar, BJP MPs force cancellation of LS panel meet on Land Acquisition Act

As Medha Patkar waited outside meeting room, BJP MPs part of parliamentary panel started calling her anti-national and accused her of stalling development, it is learnt.

Rajya Sabha panel to discuss ‘code of conduct for judges’, post-retirement jobs next week

Standing Committee on Personnel, Public Grievances, Law & Justice will sit for discussion on 24 June. Members of the 31-member panel include Ranjan Gogoi, Vivek Tankha, & A.Raja.

India’s education spending falls behind other SAARC nations’ like Bhutan & Maldives, notes House panel

Parliamentary standing committee on education, women, children, youth and sports urges a rise in education spending to 6% of GDP, noting it was just 4.12% in 2021-22.

India’s parliament panel to summon Meta officials over founder Zuckerberg’s remarks on 2024 elections

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey criticised Zuckerberg's claim on Joe Rogan's podcast that post-Covid distrust led to incumbents, including India's government, losing in 2024 elections.

Is a smashed bottle a sign of increasingly polarised Parliament panels? What MPs, ex-officials say

Spat between TMC's Kalyan Banerjee & BJP's Abhijit Gangopadhyay at Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting not first such instance. Oppn MPs say JPCs are also being undermined.

House panel flags gaps in identifying & registering beneficiaries in Ayushman Bharat-PMJAY

An independent body should be constituted to oversee the process, and authorities should encourage more private hospitals to join the scheme, the panel suggests.

Parliamentary panel suggests to set up norms with penal provisions for waste dumping into rivers

The panel has also urged the department under Ministry of Jal Shakti to work with agriculture & farmers’ welfare ministry to promote organic farming to mitigate health hazards.

Give CBI wider power to probe crucial cases without ‘state’s consent & interference’ — House panel

Ten states have withdrawn general consent granted to CBI. Opposition-ruled states have been alleging that Centre 'misuses' central agencies for political gains.

Parliamentary committee adopts 3 reports on bills to replace existing criminal laws

According to Parliamentary sources, some opposition members had already submitted their dissent notes to replace IPC, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and Indian Evidence Act, 1872.

‘Total eyewash’ — Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury declines to be part of ‘One Nation, One Election’ panel

Chowdhury also decried the exclusion of current Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge from the committee, calling it a 'deliberate insult' to parliamentary democracy.

On Camera

TV Somanathan’s letter is a reminder—civil servants must roll out the red carpet for investors

The reason that India hasn’t grown at the speed of South Korea, China or Vietnam is because the machinery of the government still holds on to the ‘commanding heights’.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.