People, Positions and Obituaries · 22 May 2026

Medha Vishram Kulkarni Nominated Chairperson of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change

Exam-focused facts from the 22 May 2026 current affairs briefing.

Key facts

  • Rajya Sabha Chairman C P Radhakrishnan nominated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member Medha Vishram Kulkarni as chairperson of the department-related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Technology, Environment, Forests and Climate Change on May 18.
  • Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla appointed BJP member Sudheer Gupta as Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2026.
  • The Rajya Sabha members of the Joint Committee on Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill 2026 are Vinod Shridhar Tawde, Sujeet Kumar, Ujjwal Deorao Nikam, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Vivek K Tankha, R Girirajan, S Niranjan Reddy, Sanjay Kumar Jha and Masthan Rao Yadav Beedha.
  • The Lok Sabha members of the Joint Committee on Corporate Laws (Amendment) Bill 2026 are Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Mukeshkumar Chandrakaant Dalal, Sudheer Gupta, Baijayant Panda, Nishikant Dubey, Tejasvi Surya, P P Chaudhary, Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, Shashank Mani, Varun Chaudhry, Sudha R, Dhanorkar Pratibha Suresh, Rahul Kaswan, Dimple Yadav, Mahua Moitra, Dayanidhi Maran, Magunta Sreenivasulu Reddy, Supriya Sule, Devesh Chandra Thakur, Anil Yeshwant Desai and Naresh Ganpat Mhaske.