Ipsa announced that members of parliament can submit expenses for food, decorations, and beverages that do not contain alcohol in 2018. Members of parliament from all parties have voted against the guidance. One member called it “bonkers” in the midst of a crisis about the cost of living. The expenditures watchdog of Parliament is getting … Read more
Some senior Conservative MPs have said that the government may need to reconsider its tax-cutting proposals in order to calm the financial markets and stabilize the economy. The warnings were issued before the prime minister’s scathing appearance before a gathering of Tory backbenchers. Some senior Conservative MPs have said that the government may need to … Read more
Chinese police have broken nearly 3,700 cases involving organised crime related to natural resources and arrested 4,700 criminal suspects since last year. Local public security organs have worked with appropriate authorities to boost measures to battle. According to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), by the end of May, Chinese police had broken nearly 3,700 … Read more
Four Members of Parliament (MPs), including two former ministers, have been questioned by Sri Lanka Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over last week’s violence against protestors at two demonstration sites in Colombo, the country’s main city, according to local media. According to sources, a CID team arrived at the Parliament Complex on Wednesday to question … Read more
Sri Lankan police detained two governing party MPs on Wednesday for allegedly inciting mob violence that shook the country for days and killed nine people last week, authorities said. Criminal investigators questioned the members of parliament, both from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s party, on Tuesday evening and held them overnight, a police officer said on condition … Read more
After authorities enforced a social media blackout to control popular dissent, armed soldiers in Sri Lanka halted a Sunday opposition march that broke a weekend curfew to protest the island nation’s deteriorating economic problems. The South Asian country is experiencing catastrophic food, gasoline, and other vital shortages, as well as record inflation and debilitating power … Read more
ISLAMABAD: The Special Committee on Development of erstwhile FATA on Tuesday raised concerns over the “complex and vague” compensation process for the rehabilitation of destructed markets, shops, houses in the tribal districts. The director-general of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Relief, Rehabilitation and Settlement department briefed the lawmakers about the rehabilitation efforts launched by the provincial government. He said … Read more
Prime Minister Imran Khan lashed out at a lawmaker from his party during a meeting of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s parliamentary members on Monday. PTI lawmaker Noor Alam Khan, from Peshawar, had raised the issue of inflation and criticized the incumbent government on the Assembly floor earlier, which did not go down well with the premier. … Read more
