Parliament has cleared the proposal for India’s most transformative tax reform in decades. The Rajya Sabha or Upper House has voted in favour of a national Goods and Services Tax or GST which will convert India into a single market. Here is your 10-point guide to the GST: The GST creates one national tax to replace a slew of complex ones applied by both the Centre and state governments. But […]
Dengue fever is one of the worst widespread viruses, affecting millions of people each year. It is also a leading cause of illness and death in the tropics and subtropics. This monsoon season, the mosquito-borne viral infection has claimed six lives in West Bengal, and nearly 120 cases have been reported in the national capital Delhi, as per reports. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that about half of world’s […]
Suddenly when I am thinking about Rio Olympics and the largest ever Indian contingent, one lasting image that comes to my mind is Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela In Invictus motivating the Rugby team. Almost like the film, I feel this Olympic contingent to Rio and their performance could go a long way as an important milestone as was the South African Rugby team’s performance for Mandela’s first term. Yes […]
The impending exit of Uber, the app-based taxi services provider, from China shows the difference between how China supports its local entrepreneurs and how India doesn’t. China follows a mercantilist policy when it comes to encouraging investment, with the dice loaded heavily in favour of the local incumbent while in India there is no such indulgence. Whether it is Amazon or Facebook or Google or Apple or Uber, local champs […]
Vikram will appear in dual roles in the movie directed by Anand Shankar. ‘Chiyaan’ Vikram is back and this time around in an action-packed drama titled ‘Iru Mugan’ directed by Anand Shankar. Shankar’s directorial debut was Vikram Prabhu starrer Arima Nambi. The trailer has many interesting aspects unveiled: Vikram will appear in dual roles in the movie, one of which might be that of a masked villain and secondly there […]
Chandler, Arizona seems a long, long way from Kovur in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district. Two years ago, it was in Kovur where Avinash Iragavarapu, an MBA graduate from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, joined the YSR Congress’s election campaign in Andhra Pradesh after quitting his job with HCL Technologies Ltd in New Delhi. Political campaigning and strategy, in many ways, were his natural calling. In his college years, Iragavarapu […]
#MonalofSushness : Day 16. Monal of age five had to travel by a bus that seemed very big to her, to school. In her planned small town, no child was supposed to have to do this. But due to temporary lack in space in a near-by school Monal and some of her friends who lived close by, faced this predicament. Travelling by a big school […]
Take it with a pinch of salt!”, is what historian Anita Rane-Kothare, head of the department of Ancient Indian Culture and Archaeology at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, told us, when we asked about whether Ashutosh Gowariker’s Mohenjo Daro would do justice to the historical story of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation. From showing jumping crocodiles to women wearing feathery headgear, Gowariker is facing flak for showing distorted facts about the […]
A spice that every Indian household is all too familiar with and without which every dal tadka is incomplete, ajwain is derived from a herb plant that originated in our very own country. Ajwain seeds vary from being slightly olive green to brown in colour. All parts of this herb have a very strong scent hence it is also known as Ugragandha in Sanskrit. The seeds have a bitter and […]
Indian Railways took another step towards connecting the North East with the rest of India through a good railway network on Saturday – by laying the foundation for Imphal station and announcing commencement of work on the country’s longest rail tunnel as well as world’s tallest girder rail bridge. The tunnel will be built on the Jiribam-Tupul-Imphal new broad gauge railway line in Manipur. The 111-km long line already has […]
