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Fifteenth Finance Commission
The FifteenthFinance Commission (XV-FC or 15-FC) is an Indian Finance Commission constituted in November 2017 and is to give recommendations for devolution of taxes and other fiscal matters for fivefiscal years, commencing 2020-04-01. The commission's chairman is Nand Kishore Singh, a senior member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since March 2014, with its full-timemembers being Ajay Narayan Jha, Ashok Lahiri and Anoop Singh. In addition, the commission also has a part-timemember in Ramesh Chand. Shaktikanta Das served as a member of the commission from November 2017 to December 2018. Constitution The FifteenthFinance Commission was constituted by the Government of India—after getting ceremonial approval from President of India—through a notification in ''The Gazette of India'' on 2017-11-27. Nand Kishore Singh was appointed as the commission's chairman, with its full-time members being Shaktikanta Das and Anoop Singh and its part-time members being Ramesh Chand a ...
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State Emblem Of India
The State Emblem of India is the national emblem of the Republic of India and is used by the union government, many state governments, and other government agencies. The emblem is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka, an ancient sculpture dating back to 280 BCE during the Maurya Empire. The statue is a three dimensional emblem showing four lions. It became the emblem of the Dominion of India in December 1947, and later the emblem of the Republic of India. History Following the end of British occupation on 15 August 1947, the newly independent Dominion of India adopted an official state emblem on 30 December 1947. The emblem consisted of a representation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath enclosed within a rectangular frame.Constituti ...
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Government Of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, consisting of 28 union states and eight union territories. Under the Constitution, there are three primary branches of government: the legislative, the executive and the judiciary, whose powers are vested in a bicameral Parliament, President, aided by the Council of Ministers, and the Supreme Court respectively. Through judicial evolution, the Parliament has lost its sovereignty as its amendments to the Constitution are subject to judicial intervention. Judicial appointments in India are unique in that the executive or legislature have negligible say. Etymology and history The Government of India Act 1833, passed by the British parliament, is the first such act of law with the epithet "Government of India". Basic structure The gover ...
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Livemint
''Mint'' is an Indian financial daily newspaper published by HT Media, a Delhi-based media group which is controlled by the K. K. Birla family that also publishes ''Hindustan Times''. It mostly targets readers who are business executives and policy makers. It has been in circulation since 2007. Of the five business dailies published in India, Mint rose to the number two position immediately after its launch and has remained there (behind The Economic Times ever since. It publishes a single national edition that is printed and distributed in New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad and Chandigarh. Unlike most mainstream newspapers from India, Mint is not published on Sunday. It instead offers its readers Mint Lounge every Saturday, a weekend magazine focused on intelligent lifestyle, fashion, food, books, science and culture. Mint's editorial coverage and its style of presentation is noted for its refreshing clarity and accessibility - facets ...
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The Hindu Group
The Hindu Group is an Indian publishing company based in Chennai. Its first publication was ''The Hindu'', a daily newspaper that began publication in 1878. Hindu Group Publications The Hindu Group publishes a number of newspapers and magazines and other journals. * ''The Hindu'' - National Daily Newspaper * ''The Hindu Business Line'' – Business Daily * ''Sportstar'' – Weekly Sports magazine * ''Frontline'' – Fortnightly features magazine * Survey of Indian Industry – An annual review on Indian Industries * Survey of Indian Agriculture – An annual review on Indian Agriculture * Survey of the Environment – An annual review of the Environment * '' Indian Cricket'' – An annual record book on Cricket * The Hindu Index – Monthly and Cumulated Annual * Special Publications under the series The Hindu Speaks on Libraries: Information Technology, Management, Education, Religious Values, Music, ... * From the pages of The Hindu—The Last 200 Days of Mahatma Gandhi * ''The ...
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Business Line
''Business Line'' or ''The Hindu Business Line'' is an Indian business newspaper published by Kasturi & Sons, the publishers of the newspaper ''The Hindu'' located in Chennai, India. The newspaper covers priority industry verticals, such as Agriculture, Aviation, Automotive, IT, in weekly specials. The paper is printed at 17 centres across India, reaching metros as well as emerging Tier I and Tier II cities. Business Line has a daily circulation of 1,17,000 copies, per the Audit Bureau of Circulation in 2016. See also *List of newspapers in India , there were over 100,000 publications registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India. India has the second-largest newspaper market in the world, with daily newspapers reporting a combined circulation of over 240 million copies . There are ... References External links * 1994 establishments in Tamil Nadu English-language newspapers published in India The Hindu Group Newspapers published in Kolkata Business newspa ...
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Indo-Asian News Service
Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is a private Indian news agency. It was founded in 1986 by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the "India Abroad News Service" and later renamed. Their main offices are located in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The service reports news, views and analysis from the subcontinent about the country, across a wide range of subjects, to subscribers via the Internet. While IANS is primarily known as a wire service in English and Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ..., it also has a publishing division that currently produces newspapers and periodicals for other clients in the media industry. IANS also operates a mobile news service. References Further reading * News agencies based in India Mass media companies established in 1986 ...
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Business Standard
''Business Standard'' is an Indian English-language daily edition newspaper published by Business Standard Private Limited, also available in Hindi. Founded in 1975, the newspaper covers the Indian economy, infrastructure, international business and trade, stock and currency markets, corporate governance, and a range of other financial news, opinions and insights. The main English-language edition comes from 12 regional centers, Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Pune, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, and Kochi, and reaches readers in over 1,000 towns and cities across India. History The newspaper's initial owner had been the Kolkata-based ABP Group. Circulation was rising, but losses were rising, possibly to above Rs 50 crore, and ABP could not support it. ABP hoped that the government would allow Financial Times to take an equity stake in Business Standard Limited and bring in funds. In 1997, ''Business Times'' was purchas ...
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Press Information Bureau Of India
Press may refer to: Media * Print media or news media, commonly called "the press" * Printing press, commonly called "the press" * Press (newspaper), a list of newspapers * Press TV, an Iranian television network People * Press (surname), a family name of English and origin * Press Cruthers (1890–1976), American Major League Baseball player * Press Maravich (1915–1987), American basketball player and coach * Press Taylor (born 1988), American football coach Music * The Press (band), a New York City Oi! band * ''Press'' (album), by MU330 * "Press" (Paul McCartney song) * "Press" (Cardi B song) Sports and fitness * Bench press * Overhead press, the act of lifting a weight above the head * Full-court press, a tactic in basketball Other uses * Machine press, a machine tool that changes the shape of a work-piece by the application of pressure * "the Press", colloquial name for pressganging, a 17th- to 19th-century Royal Navy method of forced conscription * ''Press'' (TV serie ...
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The Gazette Of India
''The Gazette of India'' is a public journal and an authorised legal document of the Government of India, published weekly by the Department of Publication, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. As a public journal, the ''Gazette'' prints official notices from the government. The gazette is printed by the Government of India Press. Ordinary gazettes are regularly published weekly on a particular day of the week whereas extraordinary Gazettes are published every day depending upon the urgency of the matters to be notified. Publication The publication of gazette is executed as per the government of India (allocation of business rules) issued from time to time by the cabinet secretariat. The Department of Publication is headed by the controller of publications with the assistance of two assistant controllers, one financial officer and an assistant director. The gazette employs more than 270 people under the supervision of the Ministry of Urban Development, headquartered in Nirma ...
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President Of India
The president of India ( IAST: ) is the head of state of the Republic of India. The president is the nominal head of the executive, the first citizen of the country, as well as the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces. Droupadi Murmu is the 15th and current president, having taken office from 25 July 2022. The office of president was created when India officially became a republic on 26 January 1950 after gaining independence on 15th August 1947, when its constitution came into force. The president is indirectly elected by an electoral college comprising both houses of the Parliament of India and the legislative assemblies of each of India's states and territories, who themselves are all directly elected by the citizens. Article 53 of the Constitution of India states that the president can exercise their powers directly or by subordinate authority (with few exceptions), though all of the executive powers vested in the president are, in practice, exercised by t ...
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Shaktikanta Das
Shaktikanta Das (born 26 February 1957) is serving as the current & 25th governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). He was earlier a member of the FifteenthFinance Commission and India's Sherpa to the G20. Das is a retired 1980batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Tamil Nadu cadre. During his career as an IAS officer, Das served in various capacities for Indian and Tamil Nadu governments, including as Economic Affairs Secretary, Revenue Secretary, Fertilizers Secretary. He has also served as India’s Alternate Governor in the World Bank, ADB, NDB & AIIB. He has represented India in various international forums like the IMF, G20, BRICS, SAARC, etc. Early life and education Born in Bhubaneswar, Das was schooled at the Demonstration Multipurpose School, Bhubaneswar, and then obtained bachelor's ( BA) and master's degrees ( MA) in history from the St. Stephen's College at the University of Delhi. He was awarded D.Litt. by Utkal University in 202 ...
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Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi, the incumbent Indian prime minister. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies have historically reflected a traditional Hindu nationalist ideology; it has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. After The Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party; it defeated the then-incumbent Indian National Congress in the 1977 general election. After three years in ...
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