Administration and management of prisoners is the responsibility of respective State governments and they are competent enough to take appropriate decisions in matters of early release of prisoners, the Ministry of Home Affairs told Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): The famous UK Anthropologist and social scientist Filippo Osella approached the Delhi High court challenging his deportation from Kerala Airport on March 23, 2022.

New Delhi Feb 18 PTI Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Friday said it was most unseemly for the Ministry of External Affairs to summon the envoy of a friendly country like Singapore over remarks by their prime minister to their own Parliament and asserted that we must learn to be less thin-skinnedTharoors remarks came after India on Thursday lodged a strong protest with Singapore over the comments made by its Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that almost half of the lawmakers in the Lok Sabha have criminal charges pending against them and suggesting a decline in the countrys democratic polity from Nehrus IndiaMost unseemly for MEA to summon the HC of a friendly country like Singapore over some remarks by their PM to their own Parliament Tharoor said in a tweetHe Lee was making a general largely accurate point Given the stuff our own pols utter we must learn to be less thin-skinned the former minister of state for external affairs saidWe should have handled the matter with a statement saying we heard with interest the PMs remarks But we dont comment on other countries internal matters nor on debates in foreign Parliaments urge everyone to follow the same principle Far more effective less offensive Tharoor said in another tweetSingapores high commissioner to India Simon Wong was called to the Ministry of External Affairs and he was conveyed that the comments were uncalled for and that India objected to them strongly according to sourcesIn his nearly 40-minute speech the Singaporean prime minister had talked about how a democratic system needs lawmakers with integrity and invoked Indias first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to stress how democracy should work in the city-state PTI ASK DV DV

Islamabad [Pakistan], January 16 (ANI): Political change is visible in Pakistan with the sudden outburst by Defence Minister Pervez Khattak against federal Minister Hammad Azhar and Prime Minister Imran Khan at the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI ) Parliamentary party meeting.

New Delhi [India], December 2 (ANI): Airlines have been advised to allocate the preferred seat to Member of Parliaments (MPs) during air travel, said Minister of State for Civil Aviation General VK Singh in Lok Sabha on Thursday.

New Delhi Nov 26 PTI Leaders of various opposition parties will meet here in the morning of November 29 to ensure unity and synergy among themselves during the upcoming winter session of ParliamentThe winter session of Parliament starts on November 29 and will continue till December 23Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to the floor leaders of various political parties in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha on Friday urging them to participate in the meeting of opposition leaders for discussing the issues to be taken up during the upcoming Parliament sessionThe winter session commencing from November 29 2021 is very crucial for all of us for raising important issues I am convening a meeting of floor leaders of all opposition parties both in Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha on Monday November 29 2021 at 945 am in my room in Parliament House Kharge wrote to the leaders of the partiesHe said the meeting will help work unitedly in raising critical matters of peoples concerns in ParliamentKharge also thanked them for their support and cooperation during the monsoon session which facilitated opposition unity in raising topical issuesKharge told reporters that the Congress has drawn up a list of issues to be raised during the upcoming session of Parliament including price rise and inflationHe said it is important for opposition parties with different ideologies to fight against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP togetherVarious opposition parties will try and come together to fight and defeat the BJP in Parliament he saidKharge said the Congress will fight on the issue of farm laws and all parties are together on many issues to take on the governmentDeputy leader of the party in the Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma said the Congress is the central pillar of opposition in the countryWe have a constitutional duty which we recognise we are conscious of that as the main opposition party of this country There are expectations of people that we will take up issues which concern our citizensWe will raise issues and oppose the government where we feel it is necessary to do so It has always been and remained our sincere endeavour to reach out to other parties in the opposition our own allies and others who hold similar views on some of the wrong decisions of the BJP government its policies and its functioning and that is what happens in a democracy and we hope that we will see this session in the same spirit Sharma told reporters when asked about opposition unityThe monsoon session of Parliament was washed out due to opposition unity over the Pegasus spyware snooping controversyBoth the Congress and the BJP have issued whips to its MPs in the Rajya Sabha to ensure their presence on the first day of the winter session of Parliament when the bill for a repeal of three farm laws would be brought by the governmentThe Congress has issued a whip to its Lok Sabha MPs too for ensuring their presence in the House on November 29 the first day of the session PTI SKC RC

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], September 8 (ANI): Dogra Front staged a protest on Wednesday against separatist leader Masarat Alam Bhat being appointed as Hurriyat's Chairman in Jammu.

Vienna [Austria], September 7 (ANI): Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Tuesday said that the international community needs to push for global and national reforms in order to make a more just and equal world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.