If western liberalism brought people ideologically closer, an identity based Weltanschauung has increasingly reversed this process.
Results of the 2014 general election and the subsequent Assembly elections clearly established that Dalit politics is undergoing a change.
GSTN infrastructure has the ability to track every invoice and track indirect taxes and their possible evasion. Direct taxes databases, linked with Aadhaar, can follow or take leads from GSTN to multiply the system’s power to flag tax evasion and evaders.
The Modi government needs to urgently revisit the opaque and draconian cattle trade rules.
India’s biggest fiscal and federal reform since independence will begin its maiden race at the stroke of midnight on 1 July with implementation of the GST.
India can thrive locally — but taking away overseas jobs if Indian corporations are ready to cut down on margins — and pay domestic employers more.
A poorly implemented version of the GST could negatively affect the Indian economy for years to come.
Even as the adverse impact of demonetisation is now fading, a new potential shock to the economy is raising its head — the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax.
It is not who wins the war, but whose narrative finds maximum takers. It is important to find a narrative for Kashmir for it to win over the tactical battles.
Against several odds, what began as the Srinagar conversation has transformed into the Srinagar Consensus, making it arguably the most far-reaching policymaking process in independent India.
India still struggles to understand the alchemy by which access to new technologies, processes and markets is converted into increase in productivity.
The Srinagar conversations need to ensure that the pass-through nature of GST is frictionless.
There is a growing realisation among the majority of the opposition parties that their political survival is now dependent upon their unity.
Siranush Melikyan is an Assistant Professor at the Yerevan State University. ...
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Tigran Yepremyan is the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and an Associate Professor of World History and IR at the Yerevan State University, Armenia. ...
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