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People are key to Railways and legislators reflect their sentiments: Goyal

According to an official statement, work on all projects has progressed at a very fast pace, including improvement in facilities for passengers at railway stations and in the trains.

Citizenship Bill: Parliamentary panel delays Assam visit over protests

Guwahati has been the epicentre of violent protests over the newly amended law, which provides for granting citizenship to non-Muslim persecuted minorities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Govt to send Data Protection Bill to joint select panel of both Houses

Shashi Tharoor of the Congress, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology, protested the move and said it should be referred to his panel.

Parliamentary panel wants regular recruitment, use of technology by Mospi

It asked the ministry to provide necessary resources to enable the Indian Statistical Institute to fulfil its mandate, particularly completion of its ongoing projects including academic programme

Parliamentary panel asks govt to prevent misuse of GST input tax credit

Two years after its launch, the government has begun the review of GST, including a possible resetting of rates along with the slabs, the Standing Committee on Finance headed by Jayant Sinha said

Staff shortage: Parliamentary panel flags structural issues at SFIO, CCI

The Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) are among the institutions under the ministry that are well short of their respective sanctioned strength

Venkaiah Naidu pulls up MPs for low attendance in parliamentary panels

After holding a meeting with chairpersons of these panels in the morning, Naidu said only 18 members each from both houses of Parliament attended eight Rajya Sabha committees' meetings

Twitter India officers meet Parliamentary Panel to discuss cyber harassment

This comes in the wake of sexual assault and murder of a 27-year-old veterinary doctor near Hyderabad

Tharoor-led Parliamentary panel decides to take up WhatsApp 'spying' issue

Headed by Shashi Tharoor, committee meet got off to a stormy start; the matter was put to vote

Tharoor-led parliamentary panel to take up WhatsApp snooping case on Nov 20

Two parliamentary panels headed by Congress leaders have decided to examine the WhatsApp snooping case and will seek details from top government officials including the Home Secretary

LoUs should be restored at earliest with safeguards: Par Panel to RBI

The committee stated that RBI should have engaged more in consultations with stakeholders on the matter before resorting to discontinuation of LoU/LoC

Parliamentary panel raps govt for inadequate allocation of funds to defence

The panel criticised the government's "abysmally low" capital expenditure as a percentage of total defence services allocation

Parliamentary Panel asks bankers for roadmap for rising bad loans

RBI Governor Urjit Patel too will brief the committee later this month

Indian Army-like performance appraisal system for bureaucrats?

The panel has suggested partial disclosure to civil services officers of their performance appraisal