Teachers urged to discuss effects of NAPLAN

/TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL All three opposition parties in Parliament withdrew their support on Friday for a bill submitted recently seeking greater rights and privileges for deputies. MHP parliamentary group chairman Oktay Vural announced his ...

If approved in Parliament, the bill will help deputies be exempt from paying traffic fines, their vehicles will have right-of-way over other vehicles as ambulances and police vehicles do and they will be entitled to a life-long diplomatic passport.

P C ChackoThe Chairperson of the Join Parliamentary Committee JPC on 2G case, PC Chacko today rejected suggestions that the JPC report was a “Congress report&" and ignored BJP demands for a new draft of the report.

The BJP and the DMK on Monday gave notices for moving a breach of privilege motion in both Houses of Parliament against Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) chairperson P C Chacko following leakage of the panel’s report on the 2G spectrum ...

Art. 371, a privilige for Nagas, but holding back development - Paiwang Konyak - Parliamentary secretary for transport & communication P. Paiwang Konyak Tuesday said most transport and communication related projects in the state have been abandoned ...

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee moved the Privilege Motion against Rahman for his comments at a Krishak Sabha programme in his constituency at Itahar on December 26 in connection with the chief minister's announcement of compensation for rape ...

The parliamentary privilege has saved home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde from legal action for naming the three victims of Bhandara rape-cum-murder case in the Rajya Sabha on Friday.

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, Rajiv Shukla, said the government was not involved in any such activities.

He had written to the Prime Minister in this regard, but it was decided that there was no breach of Parliamentary privilege. "We felt it was a breach of Parliamentary privilege. So I wrote to the Prime Minister who asked the Law Minister to look ...