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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicParliamentary Standing Committee

Topic: Parliamentary Standing Committee

Parliamentary panel flags ‘imbalance’ in points of call for Indian carriers, lack of global transit hubs

The standing committee found a serious imbalance in favour of foreign airlines due to the past bilateral policy and recommended steps to develop a global transit hub in India.

Parliamentary panel turns down opposition MPs’ demand to hold discussions on Manipur unrest

Digvijaya Singh of Congress & TMC’s Derek O’Brien had written to chairman of parliamentary panel on Home Affairs demanding discussion to assess ‘extent of violence’.

‘Make cadets versatile’: House panel says NCC training should include space science, cyber expertise & drones

In its report, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence noted cadets can be used to train elderly & cyber illiterate in proper use of cyber applications like banking transactions.

Despite manpower issues, nearly 1,400 new posts at National Informatics Centre ‘pending approval since 2014’

NIC plays pivotal role in pushing Modi government’s ambitious Digital India programme, as well as making last-mile delivery of government services to citizens a reality.

End ‘long’ court vacations, make judges declare assets — parliamentary panel members

Several members of parliamentary panel on personnel, public grievances, law and justice are of the view that long vacations in higher judiciary impede speedy disposal of cases.

On Camera

This era has made journalistic independence harder than ever: New York Times publisher

Journalist Arthur Gregg Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture on 4 March last year.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.