commencement of the first session of each year the President shall address both Houses of Parliament assembled together and inform Parliament of the causes of its summons.” Originally, the Constitution required the President to address both Houses of Parliament at the commencement of “every session...
1 - Parliament passed Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India, (Amendment) Bill - 2019 Parliament has passed the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India, AERA (Amendment) Bill- 2019. The bill increases the threshold of annual passenger traffic for major airports from 15 lakhs to ove...
The move now awaits approval from Greece's Parliament. A longstanding dispute between the two countries led to the move, because a region of Greece bordering the Macedonian republic is also called Macedonia. The change of name, if cleared by Athens, would pave the way for the small republic ...
1 - Parliament passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019 The Parliament has passed the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial (Amendment) Bill, 2019. The Bill seeks to amend the Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act, 1951. It has a provision to remove the President of...
The European Parliament and European Council still have the proposal under consideration. See EC Press Release, Speech by President von der Leyen at the EP Plenary on the social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine – reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act, ...
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Yom Hashoah was officially founded by an act of Israeli parliament in 1951, immediately following the founding of the state itself. It was purposefully established on Jewish date of the 27 Nisan (April/May) to begin a week of commemoration leading into Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day), concluding...
The article presents summaries of several bills related to the U.S. International Tax Rules including the H. R. 99, the Fair and Simple Tax Act of 2009, prepared by Dreier (R-CA) and one co-sponsor, the H. R. 1058, the Seniors Financial Security Act of 2009, prepared by Franks (...
Once passed in both houses, Presidential assent is also mandatory for the bill to become an Act. Such Bills can be introduced and discussed only on Fridays. Number of private member bills has been capped to 3 per session of Parliament.Admissibility...
But a bill criminalizing controversial speech is not all that unusual for a Canadian Parliament that has actually gotten rather comfortable with devising new limits on what Canadians can say. Below, a guide to all the speech-limiting bills proposed or passed by the 44th Parliament since it con...