Parliamentary committee questions airport policy

A parliamentary standing committee Tuesday asked the Ministry of Urban Development to ask the finance ministry and the Planning Commission to grant more funds to the National Capital Regional Planning Board.

The standing committee bats for content regulation by empowered mechanism

A Parliamentary Standing committee strongly felt that the huge demurrage cost of about Rs 665 crore incurred by state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) between 2009 and 2012 was avoidable and not due to uncontrollable factors. Owing to their ...

A Parliamentary Standing Committee has proposed to do away with a clause from the new Mining Bill which had mandated coal and lignite companies to share 26% of the profit with the local communities impacted by mining operations.

NEW DELHI: The government had in the past consistently opposed Parliamentary Committees recommendations for enactment of a separate legislation to ensure hassle-free working of CBI in probing graft cases across the country saying the agency was ...

Congress MLC Mr. Farooq Husain has been nominated as the member of Standing Committee on Welfare and Standing Committee on infrastructure. Speaker assembly Mr. N Manohar has formed standing committees of assembly for the first time on par with ...

NEW DELHI: Left parties have managed to get the standing committee on finance to examine laws that regulate chit funds so that it can be made more affective. The committee headed by former finance minister Yashwant Sinha is expected ask top ...

Prof Juma Kapuya The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Infrastructure has urged the Ministry of Works to take punitive action against Tanzania National Road Agency (Tanroad) officials embezzling public funds. Presenting the committee's views on ...

The parliamentary standing committee on health ministry has urged the government to allocate more funds in health sector in the next national budget in the wake of increasing health hazards and also to tackle crisis like Savar tragedy. The JS ...