monsoon session may start on july 20
New Delhi: The Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs will meet on Wednesday to finalise the dates of the Monsoon Session of the Parliament amidst indications that it could start on July 20. The Session, generally a three to four-week affair, is likely to be stormy this time with the Government facing mounting criticisms from the Opposition on the lalit Modi controversy and land acquisition ordinance issues.
review decision to stop nitish’s jan samwad: JDU
New Delhi: The JD(U) on Monday appealed to the Election Commission to review its decision to stop Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's ‘Jan Samwad' programme, saying it was a Government exercise like the Centre's Yoga Day events, which, it said, were allowed to be held. Party MPs KC Tyagi and Pavan Varma met Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi in this regard.
‘files on cic publicity expenses not traceable’
New Delhi: Some crucial files related to funds spent on media publicity for the Central Information Commission's annual conventions during last two years are not "readily traceable", an RTI response shows. The CIC, which is also a watchdog for record keeping in the Government offices, in a recent response to activist lokesh Batra, said the files related to expenditure are not "readily traceable".
nda govt trying to weaken ndma: reddy
New Delhi: The NDA Government is gradually weakening the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) by taking away its proactive role in disaster prevention and then in relief work, its former vice-chairman M Shashidhar Reddy said here. He accused the Government of downsising the number of NDMA's members and downgrading its status in order to make it weaker.
rss affiliates against land bill provisions
New Delhi: RSS affiliates Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh and Akhil Bharatiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram on Monday strongly opposed a number of provisions in NDA's land Bill before a Joint Committee of Parliament that is looking into the contentious measure. They felt that the clause of social impact survey, that has been removed by the Ordinance, should be brought back.RSS affiliates also raised a number of questions regarding provision of land acquisition for industrial corridor and the definition of private entity.