The Indian Parliament, which will see 55% additional seating capacity for MPs in its new building, has been no stranger to seat additions and modifications in the past 68 years since the first Lok Sabha. The Lok Sabha chamber, used as the Legislative Assembly long before independence, had only 145 …
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MUMBAI: ‘Biden from Mumbai’. This is how the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, likes to remind the gentleman that he had written him a congratulatory letter in 1972, shortly after being elected as one of the youngest American senators at the age of 29. The envelope of the …
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