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Saturday, December 28, 2024
TopicVijayadashami

Topic: Vijayadashami

Mountaineer who climbed Everest twice to be 1st woman chief guest at RSS’ Vijayadashami event

Functionaries say inviting mountaineer Santosh Yadav as chief guest is ‘not an isolated event’ and that the RSS plans to boost ‘nari shakti’ even within its organisational set-up.

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India’s GST system is now a mess. Those who designed it also are confused

The root cause of GST’s complexity lies in the multiplicity of rates. Time and again, experts recommended a simple dual-rate system. They were all ignored.

Surging growth, FDI & foreign trade. Data shows impact of Manmohan Singh’s 1991 liberalisation reform

Appointed as finance minister under prime minister PV Narasimha Rao, Singh enacted slew of reforms that broke shackles of overregulation & protectionism.

Defence Acquisition Procedure to undergo complete revamp in 2025—defence ministry’s year-end review

Efforts are underway to make DAP 2020 ‘amenable to service requirements’. Ministry lays out the plan for next 15 yrs, which includes 500+ schemes to boost fighting capability acquisition.

Manmohan Singh has a legacy beyond 1991. Nuclear deal with US shows his strategic vision

Manmohan Singh’s success lay in making a decisive and historic shift towards the West. It was also audacious, in my book even more so than the 1991 reform, given how little support it had within Congress and UPA.