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  1. Maritime shipping and navigation, including shipping and navigation on tidal waters; provision of education and training for the mercantile marine and regulation of such education and training provided by States and other agencies.
  2. Lighthouses, including lightships, beacons and other provision for the safety of shipping and aircraft.
  3. Ports declared by or under law made by Parliament or existing law to be major ports, including their delimitation, and the constitution and powers of port authorities therein.
  4. Port quarantine, including hospitals connected therewith; seamen's and marine hospitals.
  5. Airways, aircraft and air navigation; provision of aerodromes; regulation and organisation of air traffic and of aerodromes; provision for aeronautical education and training and regulation of such education and training provided by States and other agencies.
  6. Carriage of passengers and goods by railway, sea or air.
  7. Posts and telegraphs, telephones, wireless, broadcasting and other like forms of communication.
  8. Trade and commerce with foreign countries.
  9. Elections to Parliament, and the offices of President and Vice-President; the Election Commission.
  10. Salaries and allowances of members of Parliament, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the House of the People.
  11. Powers, privileges and immunities of each House of Parliament and of the members and the committees of each House; enforcement of attendance of persons for giving evidence or producing documents before committee of Parliament or commissions appointed by Parliament.
  12. Salaries and allowances of the Ministers for the Union; the salaries, allowances, and rights in respect of leave of absence and other conditions of service of the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
  13. Audit of the accounts of the Union.
  14. Constitution and organisation of the Supreme Court, and the feed taken therein; persons entitled to practise before the Supreme Court.