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MPs recommend extension of magistrates' powers

Edit The Guardian 19 Oct 2016

New report calls for strategy to tackle ‘low morale’ in judiciary and fall in numbers becoming justices of the peace ... Magistrates’ powers should be increased so that they can sentence convicted defendants to up to one year in prison for a single offence, a House of Commons committee has recommended ... The Conservative MP Bob Neill, who chairs the committee, said....

Haryana government finally sets fresh rules for selection of law officers

Edit The Times of India 19 Oct 2016

The new norms, however, have not only ignored the SC ruling for consultancy of judiciary but have fully empowered a special committee, headed by the AG, for selections. Other members of the committee include ... SC had laid down the procedure directing the two states to constitute a search committee that would recommend a panel of names to the chief justice of the high court, who shall revert with his views after consulting other judges....

Meeting of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Government of Japan)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Oct 2016

Meeting of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives on the Trans-Pacific Partnership ... Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attended a meeting of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives on the Trans-Pacific Partnership....

No excuse for dodging questions about use of military drones

Edit The Independent 19 Oct 2016

“That is a hypothetical question.” This was the defence deployed by the Government in its response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights, made up of representatives from both Houses of Parliament, which wanted to know what the Government’s policy was on the use of lethal force outside armed conflict. The committee, chaired by Labour’s former deputy ......

Hondo: Grey day! Grey day!

Edit New York Post 19 Oct 2016

The Nobel committee reportedly still hasn’t been able to get in touch with Bob Dylan to inform him he has won the prize for literature ... The house in Austria where Hitler was born is being razed, ......

'Strong leadership and clear plan' needed for Brexit says thinktank

Edit The Guardian 19 Oct 2016

The Institute for Government has found that MPs and peers are already running 31 separate inquiries into the impending Brexit – even before the election of MPs to a new Brexit select committee ... The report has been released before Thursday’s election of new chairs for select committees ... Twenty-one MPs from every party in the House of Commons except Ukip and the Greens, will sit on the new Brexit select committee....

Quake survivors sans land ownership papers left in a lurch

Edit The Himalayan 19 Oct 2016

Earthquake victims queue infront of Rastriya Banajiya Bank, to receive the first installment of housing grant, in Kharanitar of Nuwakot district, on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 ... Lack of coordination among government line agencies could deprive a significant number of quake survivors in 11 affected districts outside Kathmandu Valley of government housing grant....

Comment on FBI, State Dept. officials say no talk of email quid pro quo by yobo

Edit Star Advertiser 19 Oct 2016

Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif will definitely get to the bottom of this. Collusion, corruption and the Clinton/Obama administration ... ....

Even crucial infrastructure has been built on lake land

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016

Stadiums, parks, roads, temples, cemeteries, waste processing units, private farm lands and apartment complexes, defence and large research institutions have come up on tank bed land, shows the detailed list of encroachments published by the Joint Committee on tank bed encroachment ... However, the point to ponder for the committee, say experts, is the large number of houses, layouts, slums and apartments....

Notice issued to 12 YSRCP MLAs

Edit The Times of India 19 Oct 2016

The privileges committee of AP state assembly on Tuesday issued notices to 12 legislators of the YSRCP in connection with unruly scenes in the House during the ......

Government must work against global corruption, MPs say

Edit Belfast Telegraph 19 Oct 2016

While committee welcomed the lead taken by former prime minister David Cameron in hosting the London anti-corruption summit earlier this year, it said Britain needed to "get its own house in order" ... "It is clear from the evidence we received that companies and individuals in the UK, Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories play a major role in facilitating global corruption," the committee said....

Hitler House Won’t Be Demolished? Shrine For Neo-Nazis To Be Remodeled Despite Austria’s Intention Of ...

Edit Inquisitr 19 Oct 2016

The house where Adolf Hitler was born will not be torn down, as was indicated earlier by Austria’s interior minister, Wolfgang Sobotka ... Andreas Großschartner, an Interior Ministry spokesperson had made it clear the empty house will soon be demolished, reported New York Times ... “The Hitler house will be torn down.” ... Hitler's house will be remodeled, not torn down ... Hitler’s Childhood House....

Privileges panel serves notice on 12 YSRC MLAs

Edit The Hindu 19 Oct 2016

The Privileges Committee of the Andhra Pradesh Legislature has served notice on 12 YSR Congress MLAs who created ruckus in the Assembly during the monsoon session last month ... The members were summoned to appear before the Committee on October 25 and 26 to present their standpoint....

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