By Shailesh Pathak Good public policy always listens to good ideas, from activists and non-activists. However, sometimes well-meaning activists inadvertently strengthen those committing a fraud against the poor. An example is the anti-Aadhaar opposition after the Aadhaar Act 2016, till the Supreme Court’s 1448-page 2018 judgement terming it an ‘empowering’ tool ...
By Sudhir Kapadia In what could veritably be ground-breaking for the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) 2.0 project, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released the Model Global Anti-Base Erosion (GloBE) Rules on 20 December 2021. The Model Rules come close on the heels of the October 2021 ...
A recent letter from the UGC to the 45 central universities, urging rationalisation of courses offered based on demand, has sparked protests from, among others, teachers’ unions. But the matter calls for a more circumspect assessment. First, given India’s youth bulge and the need to channelise state resources towards making ...
Hughes Communications India (HCIPL), a majority owned subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems and Bharti Airtel have formed a joint venture to provide satellite broadband services in India. The agreement was initially announced in May 2019 and all statutory approvals regarding the tie-up, including those from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) ...
The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has said that the Indian arm of Chinese mobile manufacturer Xiaomi has evaded customs duty of Rs 653 crore via undervaluation of imports. Acting on intelligence, the DRI had launched an investigation against Xiaomi India and its contract manufacturers, the finance ministry said in a ...