What is the Rajya Sabha for?

Edit Indian Express 05 Jun 2016
The Rajya Sabha should ideally be the chamber where the federal nature of the Constitution gets its play ... Since the federal parts of the 1935 Act were never implemented, the original Council of States never came about ... There are contests at the margins when a party has a fraction of the required votes left to trade with other parties ... Great Britain is not a federation despite the devolved parliaments....

11 candidates crossed poll expenditure limit

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016
The election commission will serve notices to 11 candidates who contested in the assembly elections from Thiruvananthapuram district for exceeding campaign expenditure limit of Rs 28 lakh ... According to expenditure observer of the commission, Hareendran had spent the highest amount ... If the collector disagrees with the same, the candidate can forward it to the election commission for the final order....

Conduct RS elections as scheduled, Congress urges EC

Edit The Times of India 05 Jun 2016
KPCC president G Parameshwara on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the Election Commission (EC) urging to conduct the Rajya Sabha polls as per schedule on June 11 ... trading, as portrayed by the sting operations by TV channels," he claimed....

Eknath Khadse may face judicial probe

Edit Indian Express 05 Jun 2016
Although Fadnavis is yet to formally decide the terms of reference and the nature of investigation, sources said that the inquiry would most likely be under the Commission of Inquiry (COI) Act ... An investigation under the COI Act will allow the investigation panel to summon witnesses and complainants to present evidence....

Fed Voter Unfazed; We’re All Really Libertarians: Saturday Wrap

Edit Bloomberg 05 Jun 2016
The Greatest is gone. Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester, a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee, is unfazed by Friday’s weak jobs report and said a “gradual upward pace of the funds rate is appropriate.” ... U.S ... NextEra Energy and Hawaiian Electric elected not to walk away from their $2.6 billion merger agreement even though Hawaii’s utilities commission declined to act on the deal before the companies’ deadline ... U.S ... ....

LDF open to views on women’s entry to Sabarimala temple

Edit The Hindu 05 Jun 2016
Surendran said the government would go ahead with its decision to restore the provisions of the 2007 Act entrusting recruitment to establishment posts in devaswom boards to the Kerala Public Service Commission. The government had drafted special rules based on the Act, but these were not notified owing to the change of government in 2011....

ACT funds hope to emulate Secret City success

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 05 Jun 2016
Canberra will again be on show on the small screen on Sunday night, and the ACT government wants to ensure the nation's secret capital continues to enjoy wide exposure.  ... The base funding matches that provided to ScreenACT in the 2015-16 ACT budget, while $285,000 was granted in 2014-15....

Rubio: We Must End Abuse Of Cuban Refugee Benefits (Marco Rubio)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jun 2016
2441, the Cuban Immigrant Work Opportunity Act, which would end automatic eligibility for welfare and refugee resettlement benefits for all Cuban immigrants, unless they can prove they are were actually persecuted ... All it says is you will no longer automatically qualify for federal benefits ... 'People ask about the Cuban Adjustment Act and the 'wet-foot, dry-foot' policy ... soil, and then they can appeal to the Cuban Adjustment Act....

FCC offers hope for consumers' seeking online privacy protections

Edit The Mercury News 05 Jun 2016
Proposed rules by the Federal Communications Commission would give consumers more knowledge and control over personal data collected by their broadband service providers ... ....

Dar pins hopes on economy growth

Edit Dawn 05 Jun 2016
This does not include a series of measures announced by the federal government for the upgradation of various employee groups and compensatory duties, the finance ministry official said ... The governments of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan would jointly shoulder an impact of Rs25-26bn to treat their employees and pensioners on a par with their federal counterparts....

Tiger temple scandal exposes the shadowy billion-dollar Asian trade

Edit The Observer 05 Jun 2016
This [raid in Thailand] was just the tip of a trade that spans south-east Asia and sees so-called tiger sanctuaries and farms secretly selling tiger parts and products on the black market for enormous profit,” she said ... The authors of a 2014 report, commissioned for Cites (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), the world regulator of trade in protected wildlife, said....

Speed Networking for International Business: regional roadshow (ECA - Export Council of Australia)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jun 2016
Managing International Freight Risks Protecting your intellectual property rights Finance for success Free Trade Agreements. This event is an absolute must for all companies engaged in international business, established and emerging, to learn important facts about international trade and to network with industry peers....

Telecoms Policy and the EU in 2016

Edit Huffington Post 05 Jun 2016
Ms Layton has been a fearless advocate for the modernisation of our telecoms rules and with this report she tackles head on the unavoidable issues that need to be debated, unafraid to critique the European Commission's approach up to now. I have also at times been a critic of the European Commission's approach to telecommunications policy....
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