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Topic: Parliamentary panel

House panel wants retrospective action under Jan Vishwas Bill: End ongoing proceedings for ‘minor offences’

Joint committee set up by Parliament to scrutinise Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provisions) Bill tabled report in Lok Sabha Monday. Three opposition members submit dissenting note.

Why can’t Railways make money despite plenty of aid? Parliament panel flags ‘deficiencies’

New Delhi: The unrelenting decline in the Indian Railways’ ability to generate its own internal revenue despite the availability of adequate government support and...

Parliamentary panel calls for social diversity in judiciary, higher retirement age of HC judges

Standing committee on personnel headed by BJP Rajya Sabha leader Sushil Kumar Modi discussed inadequate representation of SC, ST and OBC in judicial appointments, ThePrint has learnt.

‘Big Tech like Google, Meta dominate market’ — Parliament panel bats for ‘Digital Competition Act’

In report tabled Thursday, standing committee on finance emphasized need for strengthening anti-competitive laws to ensure level playing field for smaller digital players.

‘Spine of key panels broken’ — Why Congress & TMC are angry about parliamentary committees rejig

While Congress retained chairmanship of one committee, TMC got none. BJP and allies now hold six major committees, including Home Affairs, Defence, External Affairs and Finance.

Opposition MPs walk out of parliamentary panel meet alleging not allowed to discuss Agnipath

The members also 'argued' with Chairman Jual Oram that not allowing a discussion on Agnipath amounted to an insult to Parliament.

Why Parliamentary panel for environment wants a new mechanism to manage human-animal conflict

A committee led by Jairam Ramesh wants changes in the Wildlife Protection Amendment Bill, 2021. It also wants a clause that allows the transport of live elephants scrapped.  

Make arts education mandatory till Class 10, rid it of ‘colonial mindset’, Parliament panel says

In report to Parliament, standing committee on education, women, children, youth and sports says art education should emphasise on Indian traditional and folk arts.

Only one woman in marriage bill panel deplorable. Don’t repeat history of underrepresentation

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

3 yrs, 17 hearings, but no SC decision on reinstating MP woman ex-judge who was ‘harassed’

The woman judge from MP had moved SC seeking her reinstatement after a parliamentary panel said her transfer was ‘punitive’. Her next date of hearing is on January 12. 

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.