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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicStanding Committee

Topic: Standing Committee

Govt braces for rise in Covid-related bankruptcy cases come April, banks on ‘prepackaged’ deals

Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance chairman Jayant Sinha says prepackaged bankruptcy and efficient solutions for MSMEs are policy areas in consideration.

Migrant workers, freelancers must be under social security net, Parliamentary panel suggests

The panel on labour also recommended that pension and healthcare needs of these workers should be provided from the social security fund. 

25 of 29 MPs skip Parliament meeting on Delhi pollution crisis as city chokes

BJP's Gautam Gambhir, the lone Lok Sabha member from Delhi on the panel, was among the notable absentees from the Parliament meeting.

Manmohan Singh nominated to parliamentary standing committee on finance

According to sources, Congress leader Digvijay Singh resigned from the committee to make way for the former prime minister.

Good intentions, bad HR practice: Inducting civil service aspirants into the armed forces

If the armed forces are restructured on modern lines, it will enable them to undertake the complex multiple tasks that is expected of them, with lesser manpower.

Parliament panels ignored: Under Modi rule, 7 out of 72 bills went to standing committees

A strong, centralised govt like this one wants to enjoy unbridled powers to legislate at will. But making standing committees defunct is moving back in time.

On Camera

BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘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.