India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves one-third of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, ending a 27-year impasse over the bill amid a lack of consensus amon...
11. Implement with all seriousness the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 and Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal diagnostics (Regulation) Act, 2002. 12. Respect the customary laws that give property right to women. 13. Increase the Maternity leave from six months to eight months and...
Q 24. What can be the maximum number of members of the Lok Sabha? Who was the first President of India? The Constitution was framed by the Constituent Assembly of India, established by the members of the provincial assemblies elected by the people of India. Dr Sachidanand Sinha was the ...
As India moves to reserve a third of seats for women, global progress towards gender equality remains slow. Of the 47 countries holding elections last year, seven saw women elected or appointed to at least 40 per cent of seats in a lower, upper or single chamber - Costa Rica, Sweden, Se...
Define The Long Parliament. The Long Parliament synonyms, The Long Parliament pronunciation, The Long Parliament translation, English dictionary definition of The Long Parliament. n 1. the Parliament summoned by Charles I that assembled on Nov 3, 1640, w
S/He exercises direct influence on the conduct of business. The office of leader of the house is not mentioned in the Constitution but in the Rules of the House. Leader of the Opposition: The leader of the largest Opposition party having not less than one-tenth seats of the total strength...
In the mid-1980s, Muslims accounted for 11% of India’s population, and had 9% of seats in parliament; today they are 14% of the population and have less than 5% of seats in parliament. Nine out of 10 members in parliament are Hindus, who make up 80 percent of India’s...
Total parliamentary seats for different states, members in vidhan sabha and vidhan parishad. Lok sabha and Rajya sabha in India
Europeans went to the polls June 6-9 to elect 720 members of the European Parliament (EP). What we know for sure: 1) Far-right parties gained seats at the expense of the Greens and the centrist Renew Europe faction; and 2) European policymaking just got more complicated, creating more ...
Labour strategists banked on the belief that public disgruntlement with the Conservatives would spill over into Labour winning at least some traditionally Tory seats, and in that they were successful. But this was just the first order outcome. The second order outcome is how these candidates-...