Special Privileges For Mps

Politicians are often perceived to be hankering for perks and privileges because of the offices that they hold. But on Tuesday, some lawmakers appeared to protest the decision to set up dedicated courts to quickly decide criminal courts against them. One parliamentarian even suggested that such courts might run afoul of the constitutional guarantee...

The Supreme Court has put an end to the privileges enjoyed by jailed RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin and ordered that the controversial politician be shifted from a jail in Bihar's Siwan district to the national capital's Tihar Central Jail. The top court, that had heard petitioners complain about intimidation of witnesses at Mr Shahabuddin's insta...

A panel of parliamentarians met representatives of India's private airlines on Monday to discuss a matter of much urgency. Could they please, they asked, have seats reserved exclusively for them on private carriers like Indigo, Jet Airways and SpiceJet?

Special privileges that have become so ubiquitous range from substantive to the frivolous. Politicians and bureaucrats do not have to stand in line for anything, live in heritage buildings, move around in cars with red beacons.

Airports and private airlines have been asked to give special privileges to parliamentarians after some of them complained of "discourteous behaviour" by officials.

Airports and private airlines have been asked to give special privileges to parliamentarians.

Politicians are often perceived to be hankering for perks and privileges because of the offices that they hold. But on Tuesday, some lawmakers appeared to protest the decision to set up dedicated courts to quickly decide criminal courts against them. One parliamentarian even suggested that such courts might run afoul of the constitutional guarantee...

The Supreme Court has put an end to the privileges enjoyed by jailed RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin and ordered that the controversial politician be shifted from a jail in Bihar's Siwan district to the national capital's Tihar Central Jail. The top court, that had heard petitioners complain about intimidation of witnesses at Mr Shahabuddin's insta...

A panel of parliamentarians met representatives of India's private airlines on Monday to discuss a matter of much urgency. Could they please, they asked, have seats reserved exclusively for them on private carriers like Indigo, Jet Airways and SpiceJet?

Special privileges that have become so ubiquitous range from substantive to the frivolous. Politicians and bureaucrats do not have to stand in line for anything, live in heritage buildings, move around in cars with red beacons.

Airports and private airlines have been asked to give special privileges to parliamentarians after some of them complained of "discourteous behaviour" by officials.

Airports and private airlines have been asked to give special privileges to parliamentarians.