MPs should no longer decide whether colleagues who break Parliamentary sleaze rules should be sanctioned, the head of the public standards watchdog has said.On Tuesday, Lord Evans of Weardale, the chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life( CSPL), wrote to a Parliamentary committee to recommend that the system be made “ entirely independent of MPs.” Giving evidence to MPs at a hearing hours later, Lord Evans, a former head of MI5, added that the change was necessary due to the “ growi

Several major companies announced investment plans for Madhya Pradesh on the inaugural day of the Global Investors Summit 2025 in Bhopal on Monday( February 24).... Investment roadmap FMCG major Dabur India has pledged to invest Rs 550 crore over the next couple of years.... CEO Mohit Malhotra highlighted that the company already has Rs 1, 000 crore invested in Madhya Pradesh, making it their largest investment in India....

Boris Johnson will receive the ￡2, 212 pay rise given to all MPs in April, Downing Street has confirmed. The 2.7% increase in MPs’ pay will come in as voters across the country face a cost of living squeeze, with rising energy bills and a hike in National Insurance. Downing Street said Mr Johnson has no way of refusing the automatic increase in his pay as MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip and will not cut the amount he gets for his job as Prime Minister to counteract the rise. The Independent Pa

PETALING JAYA: Statutory declarations( SDs) from 11 Umno MPs retracting their support for the Perikatan Nasional government and Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin as Prime Minister have been sent to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, says Umno president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.“ There are enough SDs from Umno MPs expressing their withdrawal of support for Muhyiddin as Prime Minister which I have presented to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.“ This shows that his leadership has lost the majority( support) and hi

Former House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has defended the backbench Labour MP who was kicked out of the chamber for calling Boris Johnson a liar.Mr Bercow said Dawn Butler was entitled to claim the prime minister had lied – calling for “ absurd ” parliamentary rules to be changed so MPs can accuse one another of lying in the chamber.Ms Butler was told to leave the Commons for one day last week after she refused to withdrawn her claim thatMr Johnson had “ lied to the House and the country over

WhatsApp Facebook Twitter Email Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Dec 29: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji has forwarded queries to Minister of Defense Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali about the contracts signed with Kay and Associates Inc since 2007 for the maintenance of F-18 aircraft.... Al-Turaiji said the company has extended its businesses in different military sections through Kuwait Air Force under direct contracting, away from fair competition.... He urged his colleagues to support the bill in the interest of re

KOTA KINABALU: The various initiatives outlined under the 12th Malaysia Plan( 12MP) can help bridge the development and economic gap between Sabah and the peninsula, says a senior business lecturer.Dr Rafiq Idris, who is with Universiti Malaysia Sabah Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, said the 12MP tabled by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob clearly showed the Federal Government’s commitment to the effort.He said this was evident with at least 50% of the total federal b

Three leaders of Aam Aadmi Party( AAP) Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal and Sanjeev Arora on Monday took oath as Rajya Sabha members from Punjab. All the three AAP leaders were elected unopposed from Punjab in March as no other political party had nominated any candidate the state for the Rajya Sabha elections. Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu administered the oath to the newly-elected AAP members of Rajya Sabha in his chamber at Parliament House. While Chadha is a senior lead

Conservative MPs have condemned their own party’s new online adverts attacking Labour MPs over immigration, warning they will stoke hatred and put all politicians at greater risk. Tory backbenchers have raised fears about personalised ads targetting Yvette Cooper and other frontbench Labour politicians – telling the public they voted “ to keep illegal migrants in Britain ”.... Some Tories criticised the potentially inflammatory ads in a private WhatsApp group where MPs share graphics on social

The Isis-supporting terrorist who killed Sir David Amess will spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering the MP and plotting attacks on other politicians.... “ Sir David had done nothing whatsoever to justify the attack on him, ” he said.... The family of Sir David described his murder as “ beyond evil ”....