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Political scientist Julio Teehankee says the upper house is traditionally where the 'best and brightest' are elected MANILA, Philippines — The possibility that 8 of the 24 members of the Senate belong to powerful…

May 5, 2022 Elise Archer, Attorney GeneralMinister of Corrections and Rehabilitation Important legislation to ensure the appropriate treatment of children and young people in the detention process was passed by the House of Assembly…

Czech Senate Speaker Miloš Vystrčil is visiting Georgia from May 2-4, where he met with Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili, Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili, Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili,…

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — Robert C. Krueger, who served two terms in the U.S. House with a brief acting Senate appointment before embarking on a sometimes dangerous diplomatic career, has died at age 86, a his family announced on…

Supreme Court Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti dropped government pressure to expand the nation's highest court, calling for "consistency" on the issue and calling the move "judicial populism". The former chief justice, who took precedence over…

Pakistan is a land of contradictions. It also boasts of disgusting aberrations, a country that avoids closing issues with cancer traps. We teach merit and respect for the rule of law - endless top-down pontification. But a look at the…

The Upper West Side is becoming the Wild West for late-night outdoor food vendors – who have been targeted by armed robbers four times in the past week alone, The Post has learned. The incidents are part of a larger and…

The Labor leader on the campaign trail Thursday afternoon, but has no symptoms.Mr Albanese was due to fly from Sydney on Friday to campaign in Western Australia. He will instead self-isolate at his home in Sydney for seven days."While…

A general view shows a local oil refinery at sunset in Omsk, Russia March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Alexey MalgavkoJoin now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegisterApril 19 (Reuters) - Russia is working on a plan to build oil storage…

NEW DELHI: Bhagwant Mann ended a month as chief minister on Saturday following the dramatic victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Punjab polls. The AAP came to power in Punjab with high expectations as people gave a chance to many…

The federal opposition will seek to capitalize on health care shortcomings highlighted by the deadly COVID-19 pandemic as Leader Anthony Albanese works to get his campaign back on track.Key points:Labor has pledged to fund 50…

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Four years on, the party has tightened its candidate selection standards and wants to reassert itself as a force in state politics by winning back Northcote, wresting Richmond from Labor and taking up more bench space in upper room red…

The Rajya Sabha has passed the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill 2022, after discussion during the second half of the day's session. The House also on Wednesday passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) (Amendment) Bill 2022 which…

A youth from Sikar in Rajasthan ran to Delhi and joined protests by army aspirants at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday over the delay in the recruitment process. Suresh Bhichar started his run on March 29 and reached Delhi on April 2, covering a…

Three experienced and apolitical department secretaries left the government after the landslide election.The sources in the August 2021 story, who spoke anonymously because they still work for the government, said power had been…

NEW DELHI: Seven key bills including “Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill” and “Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Bill” have been placed on the agenda of the Rajya Sabha for the last week of the current budget session. Six of the…

Pakistan's National Assembly is due to begin debate on Thursday on a no-confidence motion tabled against the country's populist Islamist Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Pakistani-led coalition government Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI—Pakistani…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (left) arrives for an informal European Council meeting on Ukraine and Russia at the European Council building in Brussels on February 17, 2022. Photo: VCGThe German Social Democrats (SPD) won a clear victory…

New Delhi, March 25 (IANS): Amid the controversy over the recently released film "The Kashmir Files", the Rajya Sabha Secretariat!--start>…

Responding to a question raised in the Upper House of Parliament, Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said the government…

Senior Congress leaders Anand Sharma and Manish Tewari, both members of a group pushing for internal reforms, met with party leader Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday, highlighting the growing engagement between the so-called G-23 and the party…

GUWAHATI/RAHA: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday claimed that suspended Congress MLA Sashi Kanta Das will vote for the BJP-led NDA candidates during the Rajya Sabha biennial elections in the state. Two Rajya Sabha seats…

GUWAHATI: The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) led by Badruddin Ajmal finally gave its support to the Congress in one of the two seats of the Rajya Sabha (RS) of Assam, whose election must have place on March 31. The BJP and its…

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A new report indicates that over 99% of bitcoin volume comes from cryptocurrency transactions over $100,000, IntoTheBlock wrote Friday, March 11. These “big deals” show that crypto being an uncorrelated asset class may not be a popular…

By ABDULKADIR KHALIF Somalia's parliamentary elections are still dragging on, just days away from the self-imposed and extended March 15 deadline.And one of the contentious constituencies is Garbaharey in Gedo, Jubbaland, where a…

A Russian airstrike devastated a maternity in the besieged port of Mariupol and injured at least 17 people, Ukrainian officials said, prompting international condemnation from Washington, London and the Vatican, among others.The bombing of…

Uber plans to launch an in-app donation button to allow US customers to donate to the International Rescue Committee to help Ukraine. Plans are underway to make in-app donation features available to Uber users in more countries in the…

Will AK Antony get another Rajya Sabha term? Thiruvananthapuram: All eyes are on 81-year-old Congress veteran AK Antony if he will get another term in the Upper House as he and two others are from Kerala – K.!-->!-->…

A fire was reported Friday morning at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials. (CNP of Zaporizhzhia)Ukrainian authorities have said a fire that broke out at a nuclear power plant on…

On February 28, 2022, the results of the constitutional referendum held the day before were announced in Belarus - and this will have significant and sometimes perverse consequences for the country's political system. Belarus' new…

To share Tweeter To share E-mailMedia Affairs10 denies allegations of intimidation of a political journalistTV broadcaster Network 10 has dismissed claims by a political reporter Tegan George was bullied while working in Parliament, asking…

news, latest news, Camden Haven resident Janet Cohen is calling for the Voluntary Assisted Death Bill to be urgently debated and passed by the NSW Upper House. "It's over now," she said. "It's certainly not a foregone conclusion that he…

File photo: Upper Consultative House of the Egyptian Parliament. Al Ahram The bill, which was returned by the House of Representatives, was approved by the Senate Financial and Economic Affairs Committee on February 13. A report prepared…

Created: 24 Feb. 2022 07:59 Disgraced former senator Curtis Richardson attends the trial court hearing (photograph Kyle McNeil)An elderly woman who is fighting to collect $19,000 in back rent from a!-->…

SEVERODONETSK, Ukraine — For days, Viktoria Gudyatskaya listened nervously as fighting escalated along the front lines in eastern Ukraine near her home in the town of Novoaidar. The resounding shelling became so insistent that on Tuesday…

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Average UK house prices rose 10.8% in the year to December 2021, compared to 10.6% in November 2021, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. Between the start of 2016 and the end of 2019 there was a general slowdown in!-->…

With a new leader at the helm, the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan intends to field an equal number of female candidates in the Upper House ballot this summer, making it the!--googleon:index-->…

Prominent Indian citizens, including Christians, have demanded the repeal of all anti-conversion laws in the country, ucanews.com reported. "Wherever the Anti-Conversion Act, ironically officially called the Religious Freedom Act, has…

Through Express press service BENGALURU: Several prominent citizens and intellectuals have, through a petition, demanded the repeal of all anti-conversion laws in India, amid the planned tabling of the Right to…

The news comes after the president suggested he was ready to step down, with his son likely to become the successor.Turkmenistan will hold a snap presidential election on March 12, a Central Election Commission official said after President…

Environment, Forestry and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday informed the Rajya Sabha that tigers are dying for a myriad of reasons such as poaching, old age, health problems, electrocution and fights between them.…

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Why would anyone want to kill James Blue? The respected father-of-three was shot multiple times at point-blank range last month as he waited for the delivery of a household appliance outside a house he had recently bought…

Tensions are running high again between the Democratic Constitutional Party of Japan and the Japanese Communist Party. After the electoral damage suffered by the CDP in the Lower House election last October, when the party fielded…

The Rajya Sabha made full use of its available time, without any forced adjournments, in the first week of the budget session, officials said. The Upper House of Parliament has made full use of the available time of 15 hours 17 minutes in…

Mahua Moitra at Lok Sabha on Thursday.The government has written to the Rajya Sabha Secretariat to ban an MP's Provisionally Accepted Question (PAQ) in the Upper House on "India's position in the Democracy Index", seeking the reason why…

'Our import with China is four times higher than export,' Mallikarjun Kharge told parliament (File)New Delhi: Participating in the debate on the motion of thanks to the President's speech, the Congress on Wednesday criticized…

Omicron's push filled Brooklyn hospitals last month, including Brookdale Hospital Medical Center.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesThe Omicron wave is receding in states where the highly contagious variant arrived later, and some…

Slovenian lawmakers will vote on a measure on Monday forcing banks to repay hundreds of millions of euros to foreign currency borrowers, with lenders warning the move would hurt their operations in the Alpine nation.Slovenia was one…

Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry thanked the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and its Senate Opposition Leader Yousuf Raza Gillani for their "support" of the SBP Amendment Bill 2021 . The upper house of parliament on Friday approved the…

Jan 27, 2022 | 07:37 IST Luizinho adamant about not challenging Fatorda Team HeraldPANJIM: Former Chief Minister and National Deputy Chairman of the All India Trinamool Congress Party (AITC), Luizinho Faleiro, has reportedly declined…

Government-backed incumbent President Taketoyo Toguchi was comfortably re-elected mayor of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture on January 23. His rival, who had the backing of Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki,!--googleon:index-->…

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's cabinet approval rating stood at 55.9%, down 4.1 points from the previous survey in December, a Kyodo News survey showed on Sunday, as the Japan is grappling with recent outbreaks of…

Vaccine advisers from the World Health Organization (WHO) today updated their COVID-19 vaccine prioritization guidelines, which support booster shots in high priority groups and refined their recommendations for the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine,…

Back when Bethany and Paul Trust owned a two-bedroom coop in Jackson Heights, Queens, they filled the place with two adopted cats. “Two adults and two cats were perfect for this space,” Ms. Trust said. When their first daughter arrived a…

WARSZAWA - A measure that would give school administrators and superintendents the power to remove books, lessons and ban students from attending LGBTQ+ events or clubs claiming to have been passed by the lower house of Poland's parliament…

ISLAMABAD: Lack of quorum and protests in the Senate on Friday made its session lackluster and prompted the president to wrap it up without dealing with a substantive agenda. The upper house convened under the chairmanship of Senator…

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Members of the Senate have assured the country that they will debate the content of the controversial Political Parties (Amendment) Bill 2021 with the seriousness it deserves. Aware of the major differences caused by the bill during the…

The government of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is unlikely to submit a bill amending the rules on how to welcome foreigners threatened with deportation to a parliamentary session from this month for fear of a…

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" UPDATE: Live coverage of the deadly fireA fire raged through a townhouse in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia on Wednesday morning and killed 12 people, including eight children - a tragedy authorities are calling one of the worst…

A day before the nomination for the National Assembly elections, the main political parties decided on their candidates.Elections for the 20 members of the upper house are scheduled for January 26, and nominations must be submitted by…

KARNATAKA BECAME THE The ninth state in the country to introduce a bill to make forced conversion an acquaintance and non-bondable offense. The “Karnataka Religious Freedom Right Protection Bill, 2021” was adopted by the assembly at the…

The dawn of a new year is a customary and solemn occasion to reflect on the past and decide on the way forward, with a difference based on experience and lessons learned. Such reflection and a new resolution are more apt and timely to…

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Two senators from the PTI also oppose this decision Minister assures House that nothing to be done will harm education sector Senator Ijaz Chaudhry says salaries and pensions of employees will be managed by the ministry ISLAMABAD:…

LOxford Street in Ondon is undergoing a painful reinvention as some of its biggest names close their doors. House of Fraser is slated to leave in January, while Debenhams, Topshop, French Connection and Gap are already closed. While there…

ISLAMABAD: A resolution condemning the horrific mob attack and murder of a Sri Lankan citizen in Sialkot was tabled and unanimously passed in the upper house on Friday. Priyantha Kumara, 48, was employed as an export manager in a…

The Congress party on Wednesday accused the Union government of deliberately suspending the most vocal lawmakers NEW DELHI: Congress has denounced the Union government for refusing discussions on issues such as revoked farm laws and other…

MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Cold weather often brings donations of coats, gloves and hats.But sometimes essential clothes are overlooked. Nonprofits like the Janzen House rely on donations of basic clothing like socks and underwear to…

ROME - Archbishop of Sydney Anthony Fisher drew on his own experience with the disease to oppose a euthanasia bill currently before an Australian parliamentary committee, asking those charged with the investigation to take seriously the…

WARSAW, Dec. 17 (Reuters) - The upper house of the Polish parliament on Friday nominated its candidates to become members of the central bank's Monetary Policy Council next year when most of the cohort's six-year terms expire current,…

On the 13th day, both houses were adjourned early due to separate ongoing protests. Today, the Lower House will discuss the Biodiversity Bill (Amendment) 2021 and the Appropriation Bill (No.5) 2021.Rajya Sabha will continue his discussion…

In the 75-member upper house, the BJP has so far depended on the JD (S) for support in passing the bills, but that could change with the saffron holding tally now rising to 38 . “Having a majority in both houses of the legislature is a kind!-->…

Phew! What an end-of-season thriller the Formula 1 race was last night. Max Verstappen with 395.5 points (10 wins, 18 podiums) edged Lewis Hamilton (8 wins, 17 podiums) to become the 2021 world champion. So much adrenaline, yes, but so…

SHIVAMOGGA: Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister KS Eshwarappa said the BJP government would secure a majority in the upper house and sanction every bill, including the anti-conversion bill, during the session winter which will…

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and the Grand Mufti of Australia are among dozens of people who will oppose voluntary assistance in dying during a parliamentary inquiry in New South Wales. The NSW upper house is investigating the bill,…