A five-member delegation of Trinamool Congress leaders on Monday met protesting farmers at Khanauri border in Punjab, with West Bengal chief minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee speaking to the farm leaders over the phone. West Bengal CM spoke to farm leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal and assured him that her party will “always stand for justice for farmers and raise …
Hyderabad: The parliamentary standing committee on personnel, public grievances, and law and justice, led by Sushil Kumar Modi and comprising MPs from both Houses, visited the Telangana High Court on Tuesday to examine, assess, and learn about infrastructure grievances. The committee faced heat from a section of advocates, who staged a protest over the recent decision by the Telangana government …
A parliamentary panel on IT headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is likely to question top government officials, including from Home Ministry, next week on allegations related to phone tapping of many using Pegasus spyware, sources said on Wednesday. An international media consortium has claimed that several Congress leaders including Rahul Gandhi, two union ministers, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee …
Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi was in the eye of a storm recently when he walked out of a meeting of the Parliamentary standing committee on defence following a disagreement over the subject under discussion. While BJP president JP Nadda slammed Rahul Gandhi for demoralising the valour of the armed forces, Union minister Prakash Javadekar reminded him that a standing committee …
The Department Related Standing Committee for Information Technology met on Wednesday under the chairmanship of Shashi Tharoor. Facebook India Managing Director Ajit Mohan appeared before the panel on the subject ‘Safeguarding citizens’ rights and prevention of misuse of social/online news media platforms, including special emphasis on women security in the digital space’. Wednesday’s panel meeting that went on for two …