It has been more than a year since the inauguration of the GST on July 1, last year. Much has been made of this step to achieve 'uniformity' of tax in the country: 'one country, one tax' is touted as...
2018-07-20 15:06:13.0
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The bugle has been sounded, the countdown to 2019 Lok Sabha polls has started, and make no mistake, this one is going to get downright dirty. The most important electoral issue will not be 'acche...
2018-07-20 15:05:13.0
Around 5,000 milk farmers were arrested from all over Maharashtra within a day after the Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghtana, a farmers' organisation from western Maharashtra, announced the beginning of...
2018-07-20 15:01:54.0
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has taken a path-breaking decision for millions of school children by making it mandatory for schools to allocate at least one period daily for Health...
2018-07-20 14:48:41.0
This is the third article in the series on breaking the rice-wheat duopoly in agriculture and my general thesis that every other agricultural commodity is borne out by the milk producers' agitation...
2018-07-19 17:36:34.0
The recent ban by Maharashtra on the use of plastic for "manufacture, usage, transport, distribution, wholesale, and retail sale and storage, import" has elicited some rather extreme reactions. While...
2018-07-19 17:34:40.0
July 19 comes with a historical landmark for the Indian banking industry. Bank nationalisation by then PM Smt Indira Gandhi has hit half a century. And, as this measure emanating from 'Garibi Hatao'...
2018-07-19 15:41:00.0
Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the United States that now reaps $1 billion annually—a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis...
2018-07-19 15:38:20.0
For ideal risk management in infrastructure finance, it is vital that the capital market infrastructure and the microstructure of the financial market aid such effective risk management. For the...
2018-07-18 16:44:56.0
The seventh review of China's trade policies and practices held under the umbrella of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in Geneva on July 11 to 13, highlighted the Middle Kingdom's growing clout and...
2018-07-18 16:44:54.0
Biofuels have caught global attention in the last decade. They are renewable liquid fuels made from biological raw materials and have proved to be good substitutes for petroleum in the transportation...
2018-07-18 15:48:07.0
The Delhi government's recent addition of introducing Happiness in the Classroom could not have come at a better time. The number of suicide cases headlining newspapers today reflects on the alarming...
2018-07-18 15:46:19.0
