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    India’s tax system needs an overhaul to widen base and lower rates

    The income-tax department’s reported move to seek sworn declarations from all those Indians whose names appeared in the Panama papers on whether they held undisclosed offshore accounts is ill-conceived. Not all foreign accounts and foreign...

    Let cash-rich PSEs buy out sick ones

    The government is reportedly mulling buyback of shares by cash-rich central public sector enterprises (PSEs), so as to meet the disinvestment target of Rs 56,500 crore for this fiscal. The share buyback is a terrible...

    Fixing India’s drug quality problem

    Official estimates say 4.5% of the drugs sold in India are substandard, others say three times as much. Substandard medicines can delay recovery, lead to drug resistance or even kill. In India, 58.2% of the...

    A tough Italian Job for PM Modi

    By Pranab Dhal Samanta Italy is an unusual candidate as an Indian foreign policy problem. But like it or not, in current circumstances, the country ranks right up there as both a diplomatic challenge and...

    Want GUJCOCA? Confession as evidence has few takers

    By Aman Sharma When other evidence or witnesses are not available and we have just a theory to go by, confession becomes the biggest evidence. This assertion, by a senior police officer played by Tabu...

    See you later, aggregator

    By Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah In a recent Instavaani poll published by Mint, over two-thirds of the people polled in metros supported the ban on surge pricing. Further, the poll suggests that people support...

    BJP paying price for its past non-cooperation on GST: Kerala LDF's contender Thomas Isaac

    GST is a destination-based tax. If the transaction is in Kerala, Kerala will get the benefits. However, there are certain issues that need to be settled, like those raised by Congress

    Must look at outsource market from a more holistic perspective: Anant Gupta, HCL

    "I think the BFSI segment is going through a challenging time as they look at pressures around compliance."

    Government has taken favourable steps to revitalise road sector: Jayant Mhaiskar, MEP Infra

    "MEP and its Spanish partner Sanjose have received a letter of award from Ministry of Roads and Surface Transport for a project of Rs 826 crores under hybrid annuity."

    POKE ME: The social security measure seems doomed with budgetary cutbacks and frequent wage hikes

    BLOGS

    Economic Times

    A tough Italian Job for PM Modi

    Economic Times

    Want GUJCOCA? Confession as evidence has few takers

    Economic Times

    See you later, aggregator

    Economic Times

    Kryptonite & men of steel

    Economic Times

    Capital issues

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    India’s tax system needs an overhaul to widen base and lower rates

    ET Edit

    Let cash-rich PSEs buy out sick ones

    Economic Times

    Child or Disciple?

    Vikram Doctor

    Enactment of a feast

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    It’s a democracy derby!

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    CITINGS

    Capital issues

    Economic Times, April 28, 2016

    By Ashish Chandarana at al Capital projects are an essential contributor to chemical company growth: witness the half-dozen new ethylene crackers being built on the US Gulf Coast. Such large-scale projects get a lot of...

    Global trend

    Economic Times, April 27, 2016

    By Alec Ross The era of globalisation will unleash a wave of technological, economic and sociological change as formidable as the ones that shook my hometown in the 20th century and the changes brought on...

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    OPINION

    Kryptonite & men of steel

    Economic Times, April 28, 2016

    By Anuvab Pal As a rule, a comedian should never come close to a furnace that takes in boiling iron ore. It is about as red hot and molten as an audience that isn’t laughing at...

    Roadrunner, Roadrunner

    Economic Times, April 27, 2016

    By Amitabh Kundu Before the traffic ‘solution’ in terms of banning odd and even-number cars on the roads of Delhi on alternate days for a fortnight every month is tried out, questions need to be answered...

    Three things government and RBI can do to keep the feel-good factor going

    Economic Times, April 27, 2016

    By Soumya Kanti Ghosh, Chief Economic Advisor, SBI and C Venkat Nageswar, CGM (Global Markets), SBI Time flies thick and fast. The first month of the current fiscal is almost over, even as we have...

    Unexpectedly, CPSE ETF has proven to be an interesting idea

    Economic Times, April 26, 2016

    By Dhirendra Kumar In March 2014, a special mutual fund to help the government disinvest in the public sector companies was launched. The original idea was that this would be a new way for the government...

    Corrections likely to keep crude under $50

    Economic Times, April 26, 2016

    By Kishore Narne The focus of global markets is firmly back on crude oil as the sharp rally in prices over the past few weeks has influenced sentiment across global markets. A big reason for the...

    Is the regulator Sebi anti-retail and anti-IFAs?

    Economic Times, April 26, 2016

    By Manoj Nagpal Last month, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) set the cat among the pigeons when it announced enhanced disclosure of commissions that mutual fund distributors earn. Independent Financial Advisors (IFAs)...

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    There’s a Dragon in the Sea

    Economic Times, April 26, 2016

    By Sanjeev Sanyal China’s growing geostrategic presence in the Indian Ocean is now more than visible: the dual-use port in Gwadar, the naval base in Djibouti and so on. Interestingly, Chinese empires have tried to...

    How to avoid a bad trip

    Economic Times, April 26, 2016

    By Dinesh S Thakur When Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced the ambitious ‘Make in India’ agenda on August 15, 2015, he was careful to include a second mission statement: ‘Zero Defect, Zero Effect’. “We...

    Caste division, Dalit sensitivity tricky hurdles for BJP

    Economic Times, April 26, 2016

    By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Since January, the Bharatiya Janata Party is faced with a serious challenge among two communities whose support was instrumental for its jawdropping performance in 2014. Continued backing of the two, firstly the...

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    • Appropriated from the trade union office!
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