The TMC is India's fourth-largest party by seats in parliament, mainly holding power in the state of West Bengal in the east of the country. Founder of the party Mamata Banerjee has been the state head for more than a decade and is now a reluctant ally of the INC in fighting Mr Modi...
State with the highest number of women-led MSMEs Women ownership of MSMEs Representation of women Share of women in senior management positions Share of women in leadership roles in the education sector Share of seats held by women in national parliament Crime against women Share of cri...
With 240 seats, his party has fallen short by 32 seats and has to rely entirely on smaller regional parties. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), along with many other smaller parties, will help Mr Modi to the crucial halfway mark of 272 seats in parliament. In ...
Voters will elect Members of Parliament to fill 543 seats in the 545-seat lower house of parliament, called the Lok Sabha. The other two seats are nominated by the country's president. The party that wins a majority in the election will form the next government and appoi...
model, in which congressional districts reflect population size while each state has two seats in the Senate, irrespective of population. Perhaps having the Rajya Sabha, or upper house, of the Indian Parliament restructured on similar principles may help restore faith in federalism. But if Modi ...
By Reuters | March 8, 2024, at 7:36 a.m. Save More India's Modi Pledges $15 Billion Spending Splurge as Elections Near More Reuters India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media inside the parliament premises upon his arrival on the first day of the budget session ...
by the President if, in his opinion, that community is not adequately represented in the House. The total elective membership of the House is distributed among the States in such a way that the ratio between the number of seats allotted to each State and the population of the State is, ...
India’s head of state is the president who is elected to a five-year renewable term by an electoral college consisting of the elected members of both houses of parliament and the elected members of the legislative assemblies of all the states. The vice president, chosen by an electoral colle...
TheGovernment of IndiaAct of 1919 (also known as the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms) was based on theMontagu-Chelmsford Reportthat had been submitted to Parliament in 1918. Under the act, elections were held in 1920, the number of Indian members to the viceroy’s Executive Council was increased fr...
AC2 offers padded leatherette seats by day which convert to flat padded bunks at night. AC2 coaches are open-plan with berths arranged in bays of four on one side of the aisle (two upper, two lower, transverse across the car width), and in bays of two on the other side of the aisle...