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For a long time, India’s tax state was proudly muscular: audits, notices, searches, appeals — the visible instruments of coercion and compliance. Over the past three years that posture hasn’t been abandoned so much as repackaged. The Revenue has quietly pivoted from raw extraction toward what is effectively tax-behaviour engineering: deploying near-real-time data, automated outreach…

India and the European Union (EU) have just agreed on a big trade deal. Many people are excited and wondering: When will we get cheaper European wine, chocolate, and cars? The truth is, it may… Source link

Basu by any other would be as verBose SIR is questioning folks from single-engine states with singularly ‘illogical consistency’. Take West Bengal. Having already summoned a Bharat Ratna Nobelman, a cricketer who scalped 462 wickets for India and a diplomat who lied for his country – last week’s targets were those whose surname ‘differed’ from…

“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance”. These lines could aptly apply to Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech in Davos. Canada has woken, and we can say welcome…

There is broad speculation about the reasons behind President Xi Jinping’s actions last week that sent shockwaves through the global strategic community – detention of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) generals, Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli. Zhang was not simply vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), the apex military organisation headed by President Xi Jinping,…

By Ganesh Kolambakar Our spiritual journey begins with the call to live in harmony with dharm. Although dharm is often translated as righteousness, this captures only a fraction of its deeper meaning. Righteousness suggests a moral code, but dharm in Indian tradition, refers to the sustaining order of life, principles that uphold balance within an…

Why some new flyovers make people shake their heads People in Mumbai are once again confused and angry about a strange new flyover. This time, it’s in Mira–Bhayander. The road has four lanes that suddenly squeeze into just two. Imagine four kids running side by side and suddenly being told to fit into two spots…

Mumbaikars grapple with yet another ghastly designed flyover. Engineering failures no longer explain these Is India’s richest city also its most corrupt? Less than two years after the infamous Gokhale Bridge scandal, the metropolis has served up yet another road construction that defies all explanations except the shabbiest. A new flyover in Mira-Bhayander has four…

Post-EU FTA, here’s what India should do to become world’s preferred exporter of skilled manpower Two days after India and EU announced their FTA, how far are we from cheaper European wine, chocolate and cars?… Source link

Something big has happened in China’s military, and it matters to countries like India China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, has removed two very powerful generals from their jobs. One of them, Zhang Youxia, was one of the most senior officers in the Chinese army and also someone very close to Xi. This is surprising because…