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The Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is an Indian multinational public sector life insurance company headquartered in Mumbai.It is India's largest insurance company as well as the largest institutional investor with total assets under management worth ₹ 52.52 trillion (US$610 billion) as of March 2024. [4]
Pages in category "Lists of landforms of Fiji" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.
The Vola ni Kawa Bula, commonly known as the VKB, is the official Fijian register of native landowners. It is known in English as the Native Land Register. By law, all indigenous Fijians who are now to be known as iTaukei [1] are entitled to be enrolled as members of the VKB, which is in the charge of the Native Lands Commission. [2]
Suva Central Business District in the 1950s Suva, Fiji, c. 1920. In 1868, when Suva was still a small village, the Bauan chieftain, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, granted 5,000 km 2 (1,900 sq mi) of land to the Australian-based Polynesia Company, in exchange for the company's promise to pay off debts owed to the United States.
The Qoliqoli Bill was a piece of legislation proposed in Fiji in 2006. The bill proposed to transfer proprietary rights of qoliqoli areas (beach, lagoon and reef) from the State of Fiji to the qoliqoli owners, who are Fijians. Others such as hotel owners would be required to make payments to the ethnic Fijians holding the rights.
Each province has a provincial council which may make bylaws and impose rates (local taxes), subject to the approval of the iTaukei Affairs Board a government department. . The board must also approve the appointment of the Roko Tui, or executive head of the provincial council, who is usually a high chief, although in recent years, commoners have sometimes been cho
Fiji hoped Trump would reconsider his decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement because the Pacific Islands bore the brunt of the climate crisis, the statement said.
The Great Council of Chiefs in its most recent form was established under Section 116 of the now-defunct 1997 Constitution, but it actually predated the Constitution by many years, having been established by the British colonial rulers as an advisory body in 1876, two years after Fiji was ceded to the United Kingdom.