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India will allow fully foreign-owned insurance companies, with the lower house of parliament clearing the amendment bill on Tuesday. The legislation, approved by cabinet last week, also introduced several reforms aimed at expanding the insurance industry in India and improving governance.
The lower house of India's parliament has passed the bill proposing a new legal framework for India's nuclear sector - including clearing the way for private sector participation - and discussions have begun in the upper house.
India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a new Indian parliament in a ceremony steeped in religious symbolism -- but boycotted by opposition ...
A remarkable fact about Indian politics since independence is that no party, or pre-poll coalition, has ever won a majority of the nationwide vote in the 17 national elections between 1951-52 and 2019. Even the Indian National Congress fell short of the ...
Addressing the issue in the ongoing winter session of Parliament, Minister of State in the Ministry of External Affairs, Kirti Vardhan Singh, highlighted the severe delays in US visa processing, parti
Operation Parakram was India's large-scale military mobilisation following the 2001 Parliament attack, aimed at pressuring Pakistan to act against terror groups. The deployment lasted nearly ten months and brought the two countries close to war.
The Indian Parliament faced a serious security breach on the 22nd anniversary of the 2001 Parliament attack on December 13. Two individuals, Sagar Sharma and Manoranjan, jumped into the Lok Sabha chamber from the visitors’ gallery during Zero Hour and ...