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A prime minister is the most senior minister of cabinet in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. In many systems, the prime minister selects and may dismiss other members of the cabinet, and allocates posts to members within the government. In most systems, the prime minister is the presiding member and chairman of the cabinet. In a minority of systems, notably in semi-presidential systems of government, a prime minister is the official who is appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives of the head of state.
In parliamentary systems fashioned after the Westminster system, the prime minister is the presiding and actual head of government and head of the executive branch. In such systems, the head of state or the head of state's official representative (i.e. the monarch, president, or governor-general) usually holds a largely ceremonial position, although often with reserve powers.
The prime minister is often, but not always, a member of parliament and is expected with other ministers to ensure the passage of bills through the legislature. In some monarchies the monarch may also exercise executive powers (known as the royal prerogative) that are constitutionally vested in the crown and may be exercised without the approval of parliament.
The House of Commons is the name of the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada and historically was the name of the lower houses of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and North Carolina. Roughly equivalent bodies in other countries which were once British colonies or federations thereof include the United States House of Representatives, the Australian House of Representatives, the New Zealand House of Representatives, and India's Lok Sabha.
In the UK and Canada, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the respective upper house of parliament. The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons usually becomes the prime minister. Since 2010 the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has had 650 elected members, and since 2015 the House of Commons of Canada has had 338 members. The Commons' functions are to consider through debate new laws and changes to existing ones, authorise taxes, and provide scrutiny of the policy and expenditure of the Government. It has the power to give a Government a vote of no confidence.
Question time in a parliament occurs when members of the parliament ask questions of government ministers (including the prime minister), which they are obliged to answer. It usually occurs daily while parliament is sitting, though it can be cancelled in exceptional circumstances. Question time originated in the Westminster system of the United Kingdom, and occurs in other countries, mostly Commonwealth countries, who use the system.
In practice, the questions asked in question time are usually pre-arranged by the organisers of each party; although the questions are usually without notice. Questions from government backbenchers are either intended to allow the Minister to discuss the virtues of government policy, or to attack the opposition. A typical format of such a government backbencher's question might be "Could the Minister discuss the benefits of the government's initiative on <issue>, and is the Minister aware of any alternative policies in this area?"
Prime Minister's Questions (often abbreviated to PMQs and officially known as Questions to the Prime Minister) is a constitutional convention in the United Kingdom, currently held as a single session every Wednesday at noon when the House of Commons is sitting, during which the Prime Minister spends around half an hour answering questions from Members of Parliament (MPs).
PMQs forms an important part of British political culture. Due to the natural drama of the sessions, it is among the best-known parliamentary business in the country, with tickets to the Strangers' Gallery (the public gallery) for Wednesdays being the most sought-after parliamentary tickets.
Although prime ministers have answered questions in parliament for centuries, until the 1880s questions to the prime minister were treated the same as questions to other Ministers of the Crown: asked without notice, on days when ministers were available in whatever order MPs rose to ask them. In 1881 fixed time-limits for questions were introduced and questions to the prime minister were moved to the last slot of the day as a courtesy to the 72-year-old prime minister at the time, William Gladstone, so he could come to the Commons later in the day. In 1953, when Winston Churchill was prime minister, it was agreed that questions would be submitted on fixed days (Tuesdays and Thursdays).
A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. A natural number greater than 1 that is not a prime number is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because 1 and 5 are its only positive integer factors, whereas 6 is composite because it has the divisors 2 and 3 in addition to 1 and 6. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic establishes the central role of primes in number theory: any integer greater than 1 can be expressed as a product of primes that is unique up to ordering. The uniqueness in this theorem requires excluding 1 as a prime because one can include arbitrarily many instances of 1 in any factorization, e.g., 3, 1 · 3, 1 · 1 · 3, etc. are all valid factorizations of 3.
The property of being prime (or not) is called primality. A simple but slow method of verifying the primality of a given number n is known as trial division. It consists of testing whether n is a multiple of any integer between 2 and . Algorithms much more efficient than trial division have been devised to test the primality of large numbers. These include the Miller–Rabin primality test, which is fast but has a small probability of error, and the AKS primality test, which always produces the correct answer in polynomial time but is too slow to be practical. Particularly fast methods are available for numbers of special forms, such as Mersenne numbers. As of January 2016, the largest known prime number has 22,338,618 decimal digits.
Actors: Mukesh Khanna (actor), Rati Agnihotri (actress), Mithun Chakraborty (actor), Ilayaraja (composer), Vishwajeet Pradhan (actor), Kanwaljit Singh (actor), Aseem Sinha (editor), Darshan Jariwala (actor), Dev Malhotra (actor), Anup Soni (actor), Jaya Bhattacharya (actress), Balwant Bansal (actor), Smita Sinha (actress), Anand Abhyankar (actor), Shankar Sachdev (actor),
Plot: An all-boys group from Allahabad's St. Joseph's College is thrilled when a new-comer from Mumbai, Vaishnavi, joins them. Most of the students' time is spent in college, then in coaching classes, and finally they return home to stern parents who want them to complete their homework and ensure they secure good marks and become doctors, engineers, and IAS officers. Some even go to the extent of forcing their children to take up Science instead of Arts - killing whatever talent and initiative their children may have. Unable to handle the pressure as well as convince his parents to let him take arts - Navneet Singh kills himself. Devastated by his death, his friends approach Advocate Sanjay to sue not only Navneet's but also their respective parents. The Police refuse to register a complaint, and Sanjay files this matter in a Trial Court naming the parents as well as the Government of India as defendants. Many other students approach him and add themselves as plaintiffs- bringing the total to over one Lakh nine thousand. The argument from the Government is that this is a personal issue, strongly supported by parents who assert that they only want a better future for their children. With the media and politicians taking an interest in this scenario - the debate taking place is how will an already overburdened and openly corrupt judicial system - that has matters pending for decades - will address - leave alone resolve - this issue within the students' lifetime.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Anu Malik (composer), Veerendra Saxena (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (producer), Vrajesh Hirjee (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Raju Sundaram (miscellaneous crew), Raveena Tandon (actress), Manoj Bajpayee (actor), Mohan Agashe (actor), Pramod Moutho (actor), Amol Palekar (actor), Vijay Raaz (actor), Nandita Das (actress), Dinesh (miscellaneous crew), Salim Ghouse (actor),
Plot: Aks is the story of a hunter and his prey. A cop and a killer. Aks is the story of Manu Verma and Raghuvan. The story begins in the heart of Budapest. The Indian Defence minister is on a routine foreign visit. He reveals the true details of his diplomatic trip to his head of Security Manu Verma by informing him about the floppy which has valuable information that could affect the very destiny of the nation. On the other hand Intelligence sources have revealed to Manu Verma that a lone assassin long feared for his ruthlessness has been paid to eliminate the Defence minister. The shadowy figure is called Raguhvan, Manu Verma reaches the Indian Defence Minister just moments too late to save him and finds the statesman in a pool of blood Raguhvan has struck and vanished into thin air. Now the hunter becomes the hunted as Manu Verma tries to find Raghuvan. When he does find him something unexpected happens, which changes both Manu and Raguhvan forever.
Keywords: dark, film-with-ambiguous-title, ghost, mirror, reflectionActors: John Clayton (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Max Cullen (actor), Arthur Dignam (actor), Richard Carter (actor), Paul Chubb (actor), John Doyle (actor), Peter Gwynne (actor), Peter Whitford (actor), Graham Shirley (miscellaneous crew), Les Dayman (actor), Frank Thring (actor), George Whaley (actor), Jane Harders (actress), Colin Croft (actor),
Plot: Dramatization of the 1932/33 Test cricket series between England and Australia. Played in Australia, the series gained notoriety in Australian and worldwide cricketing history for the fact that the English team (headed by captain Douglas Jardine) applied a bowling technique called "leg theory", or more commonly, Bodyline. This technique involved bowlers bowling the ball directly at the batsman's body, and resulted in many of the Australian team receiving numerous bruises and injuries, with batsman Bert Oldfield sustaining a cracked skull. The series generated much anger and resentment towards the English team within Australia and seriously damaged Anglo-Australian cricketing relations at the time.
Keywords: australia, batsman, batting, bowler, bowling, cricket-the-game, leg-stump, negative-bowling, tv-mini-seriesActors: John Ewart (actor), Norman Kaye (actor), Bruce Spence (actor), Wallas Eaton (actor), Vincent Ball (actor), Bill Kerr (actor), Rob Steele (actor), Brian May (composer), Barry Newman (actor), Sean Scully (actor), Ray Marshall (actor), Tony Wager (actor), Noel Trevarthen (actor), Carole Skinner (actress), Brian Anderson (actor),
Plot: A journalist sets out to report on a minor earthquake in the Australian outback, and finds that the tremor was a result of a small nuclear explosion - part of an extortion threat that has the government fearing nuclear blackmail. With the help of local reporters, and despite the harassment of the security agencies, he sets out to avert the crisis.
Keywords: australian-outback, one-word-title, punctuation-in-titleActors: Gary Bayer (actor), Gary Bayer (writer), Jerry Houser (actor), Doc Duhame (actor), James Blendick (actor), Sarah Rush (actress), Jon Locke (actor), D. Paul Thomas (writer), D. Paul Thomas (director), D. Paul Thomas (actor), Peter von Berg (actor), Valentina Quinn (actress), Candis Waters (miscellaneous crew), David Reilly (actor), Daniel L. Quick (producer),
Plot: College professor Stephen Miles (Gary Bayer), his wife, a young girl, and a drifter (Jerry Houser) are suddenly faced with a society where money is worthless, food is scarce, your neighbor is your enemy and oppression reigns. The four must survive a world of earthquakes, natural disasters, looters, corrupt officials and the Anti-Christ in power.
Keywords: 666, antichrist, apocalypse, assassination, baptism, bible-prophecy, christian, christian-film, christianity, churchActors: Corinne Orr (actress), Kiyoshi Kobayashi (actor), Ichirô Nagai (actor), Hidekatsu Shibata (actor), Kôji Yakusho (actor), Shinobu Ôtake (actress), Daisuke Ryû (actor), Earl Hammond (actor), Katsuji Mori (actor), Tokuko Sugiyama (actress), Samuil Marshak (writer), Ray Owens (actor), Masato Yamanouchi (actor), John Bellucci (actor), Kimio Yabuki (director),
Plot: Anya, an orphaned girl, lives with a cruel old woman and her daughter in their small house by the woods. On New Year's Eve, the queen announces that she wants galanthus brought to her on New Year's Day; she will reward him or her who can bring her the flowers with a basketful of gold coins. The old woman and her daughter hear these news and send Anya during a terrible snowstorm into the woods to collect the flowers. Anya has no option but to obey and is sure that she will die in her attempt to find the flowers, a mission that seems impossible; it's the 31st of December and there are no flowers of any kind in the woods during this season. In the woods, Anya meets the Spirits of the Twelve Months and in reward for her kindness and good nature, the Spirit of April proposes helping the girl by presenting her with one hour of spring during which she can pick the flowers and return home safely. When this is done, the Spirit of January makes the girl promise that she will never tell anyone about this encounter, and the Spirit of April gives her one more gift, a magic ring that will summon the spirits' help should she ever be in trouble. Upon returning home, Anya is thanked by the queen for bringing her the flowers, but the young queen, who is no more than another orphaned girl of Anya's age, insists on knowing where the flowers came from. Anya then struggles between keeping her promise to the spirits or holding on to her own life.
Keywords: based-on-play, blizzard, fairy-tale, fire, foreign-language-adaptation, forest, generosity, keeping-secret, magic-ring, orphanActors: Leela Mishra (actress), Veena (actress), Farida Jalal (actress), Tom Alter (actor), Agha (actor), Farooq Shaikh (actor), Shabana Azmi (actress), David Abraham (actor), Saeed Jaffrey (actor), Richard Attenborough (actor), Amjad Khan (actor), Amitabh Bachchan (actor), Sanjeev Kumar (actor), Victor Banerjee (actor), Satyajit Ray (writer),
Plot: Wazed Ali Shah is the ruler of one of the last independent kingdoms of India. The British, intent on controlling this rich country, have sent general Outram on a secret mission to clear the way for an annexation. While pressure is mounting amidst intrigue and political manoeuvres, Ali Shah composes poems and listens to music, secluded in his palace. The court is of no help, as exemplified by nobles Mir and Mirza, who, ignoring the situation of their country and all their duties towards their families, spend their days playing endless parties of chess.
Keywords: 1850s, 19th-century, animated-sequence, annexation, aristocracy, aristocrat, army, british-army, british-colonial, cherryActors: Vic Morrow (actor), Siegfried Mynhardt (actor), Norman Coombes (actor), Ivan Hall (producer), Ivan Hall (director), George Hively (editor), Sam Williams (actor), Peter van Dissel (actor), Johan Brewis (actor), Bruce Anderson (actor), Gaby Getz (actress), Stuart Parker (actor), DeWet Van Rooyen (actor), Gillian Garlick (actress), Walter Brough (writer),
Genres: Crime, Drama,Actors: Anton Diffring (actor), Owen Crump (producer), Michael York (actor), Elke Sommer (actress), Peter Carsten (actor), Clive Morton (actor), Alexandra Stewart (actress), Ronald Adam (actor), Andrew Keir (actor), Marius Goring (actor), Frazer Hines (actor), Arthur Howard (actor), Arnold Diamond (actor), John Shirley (editor), Owen Crump (writer),
Plot: The outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable position. Although his allegiance is to Britain, his mother was from an aristocratic Bavarian family, and he spent his summers in Germany as a child. When Geoffrey is approached by a German spy who offers him a chance to defect, he reports the incident to his superiors, but instead of arresting the spy they suggest that he accept her offer--and become an Allied agent. In Germany, among old friends, Geoffrey discovers that loyalty is more complicated than he expected, especially when he finds himself aboard the maiden voyage of a powerful new prototype Zeppelin, headed for Scotland on a secret mission that could decide the outcome of the war.
Keywords: air-raid, airship, biplane, blimp, british-intelligence, castle, crown-jewels, gas, german-officer, london-englandActors: David Abraham (actor), Rod Cameron (actor), M.N. Nambiar (actor), Ruby Mayer (actress), Marie Windsor (actress), William Berke (producer), Robert L. Lippert (producer), Orville H. Hampton (writer), William Berke (director), Hiralal B. (miscellaneous crew), Cesar Romero (actor), Carroll Young (writer), Ellis Dungan (producer), Chitra Devi (actress), G. Ramanathan (composer),
Plot: A great white hunter and an Indian princess trek into the Indian jungle to investigate a number of wild animal stampedes which have resulted in the deaths of many people. On their journey, they discover a herd of prehistoric wooly mammoths are responsible for the terror!
Keywords: jungle, prehistoric-timesThe Prime Minister, Theresa May, answered questions from MPs in the House of Commons on Wednesday 2 November 2016. To find out more about this week's questions, including links to the transcript, visit: http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2016/october/prime-ministers-questions-26-october-2016/ Question Time in the House of Commons is an opportunity for MPs to question government ministers about matters for which they are responsible. Prime Minister's Question Time, also referred to as PMQs, takes place every Wednesday that the House of Commons is sitting and gives MPs the chance to put questions to the Prime Minister. In most cases, the session starts with a routine 'open question' from an MP about the Prime Minister's engagements. MPs can then ask supplementary questions on any sub...
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