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GST, which will replace more than a dozen central and state levies like factory-gate, excise duty, service tax and local sales tax or VAT, is Indias biggest tax reform in the 70 years of independence. (Phtoto: Representational/PTI)

Are the GST tax slabs logical?

The Goods and Services Tax has seven slabs: 0 per cent, 0.25 per cent, 3 per cent, 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent...

12 Nov 2017 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Does PM Modi have an ideology?

The question is not whether the UPA was better at governance than the NDA, Chidambaram is accepting his government's...

5 Nov 2017 12:02 AM IST

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday directed the Indian High Commission in Islamabad to issue visa to a Pakistani child for medical treatment in India. (Photo: File | PTI)

Sushma's e-durbar: Today's Adl-e-Jahangir

We have no real coherent foreign policy on Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh or Myanmar.

29 Oct 2017 12:38 AM IST

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India's bogus cricket patriotism

The BCCI as a private body has every right to decide who should play or not play for it.

22 Oct 2017 12:54 AM IST

One-day cracker ban isnt the solution

One-day cracker ban isn't the solution

The factory put polyester yarn through a process called texturising, which made the plasticky yarn more wearable.

15 Oct 2017 12:38 AM IST

People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: AFP)

When Muslims do it, it's called terrorism

India's law against terror is called Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and was legislated by the Vajpayee government in...

8 Oct 2017 12:46 AM IST

People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo: AFP)

When Muslims do it, it's called terrorism

India's law against terror is called Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) and was legislated by the Vajpayee government in...

8 Oct 2017 12:46 AM IST

File photo of senior BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Arun Jaitley after a BJP Parliamentary Party meeting in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Keep arrogance aside, focus on facts

Today, we can see that much of that arrogance has unfortunately come to the Bharatiya Janata Party.

2 Oct 2017 12:36 AM IST

Jagannatha temple

Hindus, proud of their own prejudice

A board in many languages outside Jagannath's temple says that only Hindus are allowed.

24 Sept 2017 12:08 AM IST

A Rohingya refugee carries two children in buckets as they arrive at Shah Porir Dwip in Teknaf, Bangladesh, on Saturday. Nearly 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmars Rakhine state into Bangladesh in the 15 days since new violence erupted, the United Nations said on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Good immigrants, bad immigrants?

As a great democracy, we must be responsible and uphold the rights of those who come to us seeking shelter.

17 Sept 2017 12:13 AM IST

File photo of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya (Photo: PTI/)

Old policing ways are not working

India's conviction ratios are well below 50 per cent. The majority of Indians who commit crime, even serious crime, get...

10 Sept 2017 12:21 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St.Petersburg. (Photo: AP)

Note ban failed, yet it's advantage Modi

When the government refers to demonetisation and terrorism it is talking about violence in Jammu and Kashmir.

3 Sept 2017 12:23 AM IST