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The office of the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir is vacant with no elections held since the former state was reorganized in 2019. Two of the incumbents are women — Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, who has the longest continuous incumbency serving since 20 March 2011 (for 13 years, 123 days) and Atishi Marlena Singh in Delhi.
The Government of India (ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India[1] and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories. The government is led by the prime ...
The Government of India exercises its executive authority through a number of government ministries or departments of state. A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister. Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers ...
Since 1947, India has had 14 prime ministers. [a] Jawaharlal Nehru was India's first prime minister, serving as prime minister of the Dominion of India from 15 August 1947 until 26 January 1950, and thereafter of the Republic of India until his death in May 1964. (India conducted its first post-independence general elections in 1952).
The number 33 comes from the number of Vedic gods explained by Yajnavalkya in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad – the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 2) . They are: 8-Vasu, 11-Rudra, and 12-Aaditya, 1-Indra and 1-Prajaapati. Brown, Joe David, ed. (1961). India.
Siddharth Mohanty. Chairperson, Central Board of Direct Taxes. Ravi Agarwal (IRS-IT) 1 July 2024. Chairperson, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. Sanjay Kumar Agarwal (IRS -Customs & Central Excise) 5 August 2023. President, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Anish Shah.
As of April 2023, India has 167 billionaires, which put the country third in the world, after the United States and China. [1] Mukesh Ambani the chairman and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries, has been the richest Indian for 14 consecutive years. [2] He is currently world's 10th richest person in the world according to Forbes. [3]
The Parliament of India or Indian Parliament, (IAST: Bhāratīya Sansad) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the People). The President of India, in their role as head of the legislature, has full powers to summon and ...