The government is ready with amendments to the Constitution (122nd Amendment) Bill on Goods and Service Tax (GST) incorporating the suggestions of a Rajya Sabha select panel, which endorsed most of the clauses in the Bill verbatim and a few with some changes. Sources said the finance ministry will soon seek cabinet approval for making amendments to the Bill, which was passed in the Lok Sabha during the Budget session and is pending in the…
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Captain Amarinder Singh
Captain Amarinder Singh is the son of Yadavindra Singh and Mohinder Kaur, former Maharaja of Patiala. The house of Patiala belongs to the Phulkian dynasty. He attended the Welham Boys’ School and Lawrence School Sanawar and The Doon School, Dehradun. His children include Yuvraj Raninder Singh and Jai Inder Kaur. His wife Preneet Kaur, is an MP serving as Minister of State in the External Affairs Ministry. He served as a captain in Indian Army….
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Manmohan Singh was born to Gurmukh Singh and Amrit Kaur on 26 September 1932, in Gah, Punjab, British India, into a Sikh family. He lost his mother when he was very young and was raised by his paternal grandmother, to whom he was very close. After the Partition of India, his family migrated to Amritsar, India, where he studied at Hindu College. He attended Panjab University, Chandigarh, then in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, studying Economics and got…
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