PCMC panel slams delay in women, child welfare schemes

CHENNAI: The parliamentary standing committee on Railways has recommended that more double decker trains be introduced with a view to double the existing passenger capacity of the Indian Railways. Keeping in view the burden on

ACTING Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Rick Hou says the 7th meeting of the Forum Ministerial Standing Committee (FMSC) was a unique and historic event. Mr Hou was speaking at the opening of the FMSC meeting on the Regional Assistance Mission ...

Rather than endorsing a compromise proposal, the Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission is standing its ground and asking the Ashland Citizens' Budget Committee to continue a tradition of giving the parks system half of city property tax revenue.

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.

In April, the civic standing committee rejected the proposal to desilt the portion of Mithi that comes under the jurisdiction of the MMRDA.It has demanded a status report on the work undertaken by the MMRDA since the July 2005 deluge.In

A parliamentary standing committee on Tuesday said it would recommend authorities to increase internet bandwidth while maintaining that it was a correct decision to decrease upload speed. The committee for information and communication ministry said ...

The defence ministry had submitted its report to the Standing Committee on Defence on cases of indiscipline in the three Services.

Election to the post of president and seven standing committee members of the All Manipur Working Journalists' Union AMWJU would be held on May 1 Source The Sangai Express

The finance standing committee of Parliament is likely to recommend scrapping of the Chit Fund Act, 1982, as the existing web of state and central regulations is so porous that preventing a Saradha-type scam was next to impossible. After hearing finance, tax ...