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Victorian Labor MPs head to a retreat on the Mornington Peninsula next week amid mounting pressure on Premier Daniel Andrews and his hand-picked successor Jacinta Allan over their handling of the Commonwealth Games.

Joint committee on the draft Forest Conservation (Amendment) Act 2023 on Thursday has accepted every single amendment proposed by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change and recommended it entirely unchanged, as per its report tabled in Parliament on Thursday. Four Opposition party Members of Parliament- who were on the panel- Congress MPs Pradyut Bordoloi and Phulodevi Netam, Trinamool Congress’ Jawahar Sircar and DMK’s R Girirajan – have expressed their dissent in writing to provisions in the draft Bill.

Towing a suitcase in hand, the billionaire co-owner of Asda hailed down a black cab and made a speedy exit from Westminster last night.

Check out all the latest updates on Parliament Monsoon Session Day 2 here. The monsoon session of Parliament began on Thursday and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla has urged the MPs of all parties for meaningful discussions in the House on issues of national and public interest.As the Monsoon session of Parliament began on Thursday amidst the outrage over the situation in Manipur, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) MP TR Baalu said that he had given notice for the removal of Tamil Nadu governor for "defying" the Constitution.Even though the government was ready for a discussion on Manipur, the opposition disrupted Parliament proceedings and did now allow the debate to take place, the BJP charged on Thursday as it questioned the timing of the surfacing of a May 4 video of two women being paraded naked in the northeastern state.The BJP said that a discussion on the situation in Manipur would have sent out a "meaningful and positive" message to the people of the violence-hit state but the opposition parties did not let it happen because they felt that incidents of "misbehavior" with women in Congress-ruled states as well as the violence during the West Bengal panchayat elections may also come up.RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha gives Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha, demanding to discuss Manipur situation.AAP MP Sanjay Singh gives Suspension of Business Notice under Rule 267 in Rajya Sabha, demanding to discuss Manipur situation.Congress MP Manish Tewari gives Adjournment Motion Notice in Lok Sabha, demanding to discuss Manipur situation.Monsoon Session of Parliament Day 2: Congress MP Manickam Tagore gives Adjournment Motion Notice in Lok Sabha, demanding to discuss Manipur situation.

Towing a suitcase in hand, the billionaire co-owner of Asda hailed down a black cab and made a speedy exit from Westminster last night.

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BJP women MPs from New Delhi visited violence affected districts of West Bengal on Tuesday to gauge poll-violence and atrocities against women during Panchayat polls. The team, appointed by BJP National President J P Nadda, visited North 24 Parganas district's Deganga and is scheduled to visit South 24 Parganas' Baruipur today and spoke to the women victims of violence. The team will submit a report to J P Nadda, following the visit.

AAP government rebutted by sharing a photo of Gambhir in Jaipur. Northeast Delhi MP Manoj Tiwari was in Patna when his constituency was flooded, the AAP party called them 'shameless MPs'. "One is East Delhi MP and the other is from Northeast Delhi.

Mel Stride has urged the MPs not to name the BBC presenter who has been accused of paying money to a teenager for his sexually explicit pictures. Cautioning against parliamentary privilege, he told SKY TV that the facts have changed recently, and the MPs should use the privilege sparingly. The parliamentary privileges include the right to speak in the house freely without coming under the law related to slander.

MPs on Thursday called on the government to ban video-sharing platform TikTok unless it clarifies its links to China, days after the government blamed social media for fuelling recent riots. A Senate commission of inquiry set up to probe TikTok's handling of data and «influence strategy» said in its final report that the firm should be given until January 1 next year to come clean or face a ban in France and possibly Europe.

Brazilian lawmakers have summoned the heads of major crypto exchanges to parliament, with representatives of the trading platforms Binance, Bitso, and OKX all set to attend.

The UK parliament's influential Treasury Committee has questioned the Financial Conduct Authority's supervision of Odey Asset Management in the wake of a string of sexual misconduct allegations against its eponymous founder Crispin Odey.

The all-party parliamentary group for crypto and digital assets has called for urgent measures to regulate crypto in the UK and wants the government to consider appointing a 'crypto tsar' to ensure efforts across various departments with a stake in the sector are coordinated.

The UK Treasury Select Committee has suggested the country regulate cryptocurrency trading as a form of gambling rather than a financial service.

South Korea is edging closer to a central bank digital currency (CBDC) launch, with a new draft law set to create legal terminology for CBDCs.

UK regulators are suffering from a "democratic deficit" which is holding back growth, according to a new report from a high-profile group of MPs.

Russian politicians say they will debate a long-awaited crypto regulation bill before the end of the current parliamentary session.

The Financial Conduct Authority has not worked out the potential costs investors may incur to leave green funds that would no longer qualify for the label under the its new ESG regime.

Concerns around the lack of diversity in the venture capital market have come to light in an investigation launched by the Treasury committee.

Russia's State Duma -- the lower house of the Russian parliament -- approved a controversial new law on Thursday banning LGBTQ "propaganda" to adults.

It’s been seven days since Sam Bankman-Fried said: “FTX is fine. Assets are fine.”