CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk DDN, December 22,2011 In an unprecedented tongue-lashing against the powerful military, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said "no institution can be a state within a state" and warned that "conspiracies" are being hatched to "pack up" his democratically-elected govt. People will have to decide whether they want "elected people or a dictatorship", he added as talk of a rift between his government and the ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA) news desk DDN,  December 22,2011 Parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to amend law governing Prasar Bharati, ensuring that recruitments done between November 1997 and October 2007 will be considered as deemed deputation till retirement.  The Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Amendment Bill, 2010, already passed by Rajya Sabha, was approved by the Lok Sabha by voice vote on Tuesday. Intervening in the discussion on the bill, during ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES (INDIA)  news desk DDN, December 22,2011 The Congress top brass, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and party chief Sonia Gandhi met New Delhi on Thursday ahead of the introduction of the new Lokpal Bill. The meeting of the Congress Core Group was held at a time when some parties like the RJD, SP and BSP protested against exclusion of minorities from the anti-graft bench of the proposed ombudsman. Besides ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk DDN, December 22,2011 The Parliament on Thursday approved a bill to give Scheduled Tribe status to six communities of Manipur and substitute the name of one in the list of Arunachal Pradesh. The Rajya Sabha on Thursday passed the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order (Amendment) Bill 2011 to give ST status to Inpui, Rongmei, Liangmai, Zeme, Thangal and Mate communities of Manipur and substitute Galong with Galo ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk DDN, December 22,2011 Constitution 111th amendment bill relating to professional management of co-operative societies was passed in Lok Sabha after various amendments to it were voted upon. Bill seeks to insert a new Article 43B in the constitution to facilitate more transparency in cooperatives. The Bill was moved by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. It aims at improving the working of the multi-state cooperative bodies to provide benefits ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk DDN, December 22,2011 Amid stiff opposition to the Lokpak Bill from Team Anna, government on Thursday said discussion on the Bill should take place inside Parliament and considered inside the House. "You should let things happen in the House... let us not do anything outside the House. Whatever happens must happen in the House," Law Minister Salman Khurshid told reporters outside Parliament. He was asked about ...