Lok Sabha

China-India: Differences Asia is home to two of the biggest countries in the world in regards to population. Those countries are no other than India and China. These two countries both have a population of 1.3 billion, and are often regarded as very similar countries. However, India has a population of 1.324 billion, while China has a population of 1.379 billion. They may be on the same continent, but they're both poles apart. China and India are two countries that appear to be similar, but in…

The Estimate Committee (1960)1 of the Lok Sabha concluded that the renewal expense ratio had been coming down but had not reached the level of the best–managed insurers. The Committee also hoped that with improved management, the Corporation would not only catch up with but also improve on the renewal expense ratio attained by the erstwhile leading insurance companies in India. Mohsin (1966)2 suggested that the requirements of the financial system in India and the interest of the policyholders…

“I was happy when Mr Modi spoke, he’s a great orator. I was depressed when I read the 40 page Action Plan,” says Ravi Kiran, the blunt speaking co-founder of Venture Nursery, an angel-backed start-up accelerator. Amidst the euphonious speech delivered by the Prime minister Narendra Modi at a New Delhi 's Vigyaan Bhawan for the Startup India workshop, there was also the existence of the thought obviating that maybe there is too much money chasing too few ideas. The Prime Minister divulged the…

The Government intends to operationalize the bill in April 2016. However, the Bill is currently hung up in the Rajya Sabha where the opponents of the Bill have been raising their concerns regarding three key aspects of the Bill: • Scrapping of the one percent additional IGST on inter-state movement of goods – The opposition has been arguing that this shall have cascading…

In 1642, when King Charles I entered the House of Commons seeking the arrest of the five Members alleged to have supported the Scottish invasion against his reign, he not only created Parliamentary history, but also laid the foundation of what is known today as ‘Parliamentary Privilege’. In response to King Charles I’s questions about the whereabouts of these Members, the Speaker William Lenthall famously remarked that “I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the…

INTRODUCTION Chetan Baghat was born on 22 April 1974 in New Delhi in a Punjabi family. He attended Army public school from 1978 to 1991 in New Delhi. During 1991to 1995 he studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Chetan Baghat studied his masters at the Indian Institute of management (IIM), Ahmedabad. In IIM he was named ‘The Best outgoing student’. In IIM, he fell in love with Anusha and eventually married her. The couples have twins Ishaan and Shyam.…