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Important decisions have been taken Saturday in the 31st meeting of GST Council regarding ITC eligibility criteria, exemptions issue and rate rate rationalization. Six items were downgraded from the 28 percent tax slab while 33 items from 18 percent. Services provided to Basic Savings Bank Deposit (BSBD) account holders...
Far Right Advances In Spanish Regional Elections
By Conn Hallinan In what seems a replay of recent German and Italian elections, an openly authoritarian and racist party made major electoral gains in Spain’s most populous province, Andalusia, helping to dethrone the Socialist Party that had dominated the southern region for 36 years. Vox (Voice)—a party...
NATO-Trump Row Over Afghan Troops Withdrawal
By Sankar Ray Keeping NATO-allies blindsided, US President Donald John Trump announced withdrawal 7,000 out of 14,000 troops from Afghanistan – one of the decisions disagreeing with which Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis put in his papers. However, the chief executive office at Kabul heaved a sigh of...
Attack On Privacy: Back To Square One
By K. Raveendran Authoritarian regimes tend to think they are for ever. And they create draconian rules to drive their agendas, but without realising that they could some day be at the receiving end of their own evil when they change places, which is unavoidable in any democratic set-up....
Kamal Nath Effects Massive Bureaucratic Shake-Up
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: Even before his ministry is in place chief minister Kamal Nath has taken several important decisions. Besides waiving farmers’ loans, a massive bureaucratic shake up has been effected. Out of 52 district Collectors 24 have been given marching orders and many of them are believed...
40 To Do An Alamo On Sabarimala
By Sushil Kutty Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican General who led the siege of the Alamo in the 1830s, got hit by a cannon shell on his ankle, leading to the amputation of a leg, which he ordered buried with full military honours. He seems to...
Promote Generic Drugs With Effective Quality Control
Dr Arun Mitra The issue of cheap drugs and their quality has always been a cause of concern. With more than 40 percent of our population living below poverty line, if a patient needs medicines he or she has to pay more than half of her/his earning. As...
Cm Kamal Nath’s Race Against Time To Secure Congress Base
By Harihar Swarup Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath is a canny political strategist. He knows that he has no time to loose as 2019 Lok Sabha elections are not far away. The alacrity with which CM has announced the new government’s two decisions—farm loan wavers and limiting...
How RLSP’s entry makes Bihar’s Grand Alliance stronger
Lok Sabha seats sharing among parties in Bihar’s Opposition Grand Alliance seems to be intensifying following the exit of Upendra Kushwaha’s Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) from NDA and joining hands with Rahul Gandhi-led Congress party. Bharatiya Janata Party offered just two seats, below expectation of five, to RLSP...
More And More Homeless Are Dying In Britain
By Peter Lazenby Deaths of homeless people have been branded a “national tragedy” after shock figures revealed today that the number has leapt by almost a quarter in the last five years. Almost 600 people sleeping rough or in emergency accommodation died last year in England and Wales,...
Family War On Lalu’s Turf And Its Fall-Outs
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Rahul Gandhi Can Undertake A Padayatra In Bastar Region
By Nitya Chakraborty Now that the Congress has won convincingly in the state assembly elections in Chhattisgarh and formed the Government after fifteen years of rule by the BJP headed by Dr. Raman Singh, the time has come for the Congress leadership at both state and central level...
Big Brother Is Bothered His Days Are Numbered
By Aditya Aamir So, if it was not a fake encounter, then it was a genuine encounter. Or, maybe, Sohrabuddin, Tulsi Prajapati and Kauser Bi just upped and set up an encounter with the police and were shot to ribbons. The CBI court, hearing the case, acquitted the...
Fair Wage Is A Question Of Dignity For Anganwadis
By B. Sivaraman In an unusual gesture, Prime Minister Modi chose to personally announce an increase in honorarium for scheme workers like anganwadi workers and accredited social health activists (ASHAs) on 21 September 2018. He even called it a “landmark increase in remuneration”. However, the increase turned out...
Bureaucrats Letter Demanding Yogi’s Resignation Is The Nation’s Call
By Nitya Chakraborty The open letter sent by 83 retired bureaucrats of the country demanding the resignation of the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for his role in dealing with the killing of the police officer in Bulandshahr violence on December 3, is a reflection of the...
BJPs trump card – 2014 was ‘vikas,’ 2019 is ‘welfare’
Ujjwala scheme is the defining legacy of Modi government. It has changed the way rural people in India cooked and create loyal constituency of women voters for Bharatiya Janata Party. Other welfare schemes like construction of toilets and housing construction too have been worked with improved and fast delivery....
Reforming The European Union Is An Impossible Dream
By Robert Griffiths British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn told some uncomfortable truths to Europe’s social democratic parties in Lisbon last week. He urged the congress of the Party of European Socialists to “work together to help build a real social Europe, a people’s Europe, a Europe that...
Opposition Unity Efforts Lack Steam
By Rahil Nora Chopra The big push that the Congress victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh was supposed to provide to opposition unity has not happened, thanks to an ill-conceived move by DMK leader M K Stalin to unilaterally propose Rahul Gandhi as the prime ministerial candidate of...
