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Customs Using Cutting-Edge Tech To Detect Illicit Trade: CBIC Head
NEW DELHI: India’s Custom authorities are “actively deploying” cutting-edge technologies including big data analytics, artificial intelligence, image analytics to detect fraud and curb illegal trade, Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) Chairman Sanjay Agarwal said on Monday. “The Indian customs administration is combining domain expertise with innovative...
Indian Railways Urgently Needs A Full-Time Minister
By Nantoo Banerjee Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not derive much comfort from the fact that Indian Railways, the government’s single biggest public connect, is in bad shape. India’s railway network, recognised as one of the world’s largest railway systems under single management, carries some 24 million passengers daily....
Cessation Of Israel-Hamas Hostilities Is The Need Of The Hour
By Girish Linganna As Israel ratcheted up its ground offensive on Saturday (October 28, 2023), relentlessly pounding Gaza with airstrikes to back up a night of intense bombing, the north of the Gaza Strip was assailed “on a magnitude never witnessed before” and there was “total chaos” in the...
Gandhi’s Experiment With Truth Has No Relevance For RSS Or Modi
By Arun Srivastava Some political commentators hold the view that Palestinians should have followed the Gandhian path and also implicitly accuse them that they never followed the Gandhian path. However, their suggestion also applies to the Israel. The Israeli rulers should have followed the Gandhian path, and boy how...
Amit Shah Facing Angry Crowds During Poll Campaign In Madhya Pradesh
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Union Minister of Home Affairs and the second most influential leader in the BJP, Amit Shah, only next to PM Narendra Modi, has perhaps rightly perceived the general voters’ annoyance in Madhya Pradesh against the ruling double engine government, both in the state and the...
Kerala Blasts Aftermath Show Global Politics At Local Crossroads
By Sushil Kutty The bomb blasts in Kerala are a reminder that war – anywhere in the world – is never far from politics. The Kerala blasts along with the conflagration it triggered has had a serious impact on politics in India. There is now a Centre-State battle on...
What Palestine Teaches The Western Teachers Of Politics And Law
By Afreen Faridi Liberal legal and political theory, morality and institutions which uphold the Westphalian human rights charter have dug their grave in Palestine. Magna Carta, Bill of Rights, Universal Declaration of Human Rights … are dead. They have time and again failed to be useful to the Global...
P Vijayan-Led Kerala Rejects NCERT’s Bid To Replace ‘India’ With ‘Bharat’
By P. Sreekumaran Kerala has said an emphatic “No” to the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)’s attempt to replace ‘India’ with ‘Bharat’ in the social sciences textbooks for schools. This is in response to the recommendation made by a panel set up by the NCERT that...
Tipra Motha Of Tripura Approaches BJP For Seat Sharing In Lok Sabha Polls
By Satyaki Chakraborty Tipra Motha (TM), the powerful tribal party of Tripura has approached the BJP for an alliance to share the seats in the Lok Sabha election in 2024. Tripura has two seats in Lok Sabha including one as reserved. TM wants to contest the reserved seat and...
Against Ruling BJP, Efforts Begin For Opposition Unity In Assam
By Ashis Biswas Opposition parties in Assam, showing a greater commitment to achieve an anti-BJP consolidation than the Congress, ignored the latter’s gamesmanship to begin their long-awaited seat-sharing talks for the Lok Sabha polls in 2024. However, despite a broad agreement among the 14 parties coming together under the...
President-Elect Arevalo Of Guatemala Facing Us Resistance Before Take Over
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Bernardo Arévalo’s victory in the first round of presidential voting on June 25 this year surprised Guatemalans, as did the emergence of his Seed (Semilla) political party. Roadblocks engineered by established political forces threatened his candidacy in the second round of voting, on Aug....
India To Become $30-Trillion Economy By 2047: NITI Draft Vision Document
NEW DELHI: India is estimated to be a $30 trillion developed economy by 2047, preliminary results from the Centre’s vision document which is being prepared have shown, Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam said on Sunday. The Vision India@2047 document is likely to be released by PM Modi in the...
Govt Asks All Private Companies To Demat Shares By September 2024
MUMBAI: The government has mandated all private companies, other than small companies, to dematerialise their shares by September 30, 2024. The move is expected to boost transparency and oversight of the financial system. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), in an amendment dated October 27, inserted a new clause...
India Seeks To Tax Goods Part Of Cross-Border Digital Trade
NEW DELHI: India has proposed that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) clearly define what constitutes goods and services in relation to cross-border electronic transmissions such as content streaming. The suggestion, made by senior Indian officials at a meeting of WTO member countries in Geneva last week, is aimed reaching...
K-Factor In Full Play In Housing Segment
MUMBAI: The K-factor, visible in many sectors of the economy, is at play in the housing space as well. Housing sales were at six-year high in the September quarter, however, the sale of affordable housing units declined 10%, as buyers in the segment continued to be troubled by the...
India Pitches For Clear Definition Of E-Commerce Trade In Goods, Services In WTO
NEW DELHI: India has asked the WTO members to work on a clear definition of e-commerce trade in goods and services as it would help provide developing countries a policy space to make decisions on the fast-growing sector, an official said. At present, there is a difference of understanding...
Indian Economy Will Be Seriously Impacted By War Only When Arab Nations Join
By Subrata Majumder The peculiarity of Hamas-Israel war is that unlike other wars or conflict, India do not succumb to the direct impact of the war. It is the spillover impact, which causes concern. Israel is not a major trading partner or major foreign investor in India. Neither, Palestine...
Emotional Response To Murthy’s Call For 70 Hours Work Disguises Real Problems
By K Raveendran Infosys founder Narayana Murthy’s call to the youth of the nation to declare ‘this is my country, I want to work for 70 hours a week’ has created such a storm that it has elicited response from every section of the society, including the veteran technocrat’s...
