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Prior to the roll-out of the Goods and Service Tax (GST) from July 1, 2017, states had substantial power to levy origin-based indirect taxes and levies such as sales tax or VAT, octroi, entry tax, entertainment tax, etc. GST introduced a consolidated levy of destination-based taxation across the nation, with the erstwhile system of fragmented taxes and levies being subsumed within its ambit.

The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena are no longer handshaking friends and won’t be unless the Shiv Sena returns to the earlier nuptial arrangement – BJP on top! The two have been at war since after Uddhav Thackeray dumped his dead father’s legacy and went secular than thou to form government in Mumbai with support from Sharad Pawar’s NCP and Sonia Gandhi’s Congress.

A Perfect Crime, a new four-part documentary series on Netflix about the 1991 assassination of German politician Detlev Rohwedder, surprisingly offers critical viewpoints about German reunification.

The Indian judiciary is one of the most powerful, however, its power hasn’t been used to hold the state accountable in recent times. In India, it performs a function with and for the state. Indian courts no longer work as a shield for the people, they work in close alliance with the executive. India is witnessing a new kind of committed judiciary that works for the aid of state goals.

LUCKNOW: The forthcoming by-elections for seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will be the testing time for Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi.

The thousands of migrant workers who have re-migrated to the cities and their earlier places of work, before fleeing to their native place in the wake of onslaught of the corona epidemic, have started coming back to Bihar to participate in the electioneering.

US think-tank Freedom House has catalogued the abuse of power by governments all over the world in the name of fighting the coronavirus pandemic and heading the table is India. Perhaps a point of consolation is that the likes of United States, the United Kingdom and China are keeping company.

The 40,000-plus rally at the Bagh-e-Jinnah in Gujranwala, near Lahore, on Sunday , the 13th anniversary of the twin blasts in Karsaz, targeting the homecoming procession of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto killing around 200 people , under the banner of Pakistan Democratic Movement comprising 11 opposition parties, has seemingly unnerved the Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi, especially due to the high-voltage speech by the former PM and supremo of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) Nawaz Sharif. Delivered from London virtually, he came out all guns blazing against those who ‘selected’ Imran Khan as PM and named the Chief of Army Staff Qamar Javed Bajwa and Director General of Inter-Service Intelligence General Faiz Hameed for short-circuiting the last general election and ensuring the installation of Imran Khan as PM.

The road to Tamil Nadu Assembly poll, still six months ahead, for May 2021, is full of uncertainties though the ruling AIADMK has decided its Chief Minister Mr E Palaniswami will lead the party seeking a third successive term in a post-Jayalalithaa era. In this, it fondly hopes alliance with BJP and the Modi charisma could work out in its favour.

With less than two weeks to go for the Presidential elections in USA scheduled on November 3, talks have started about what is going to be the impact of the coming to the White House of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice-President on the India-U.S relations. All indications suggest that unless, there is a major change in the opinion of the voters in the crucial swing states in the last minute before November 3, the Democratic candidate will have a clean sweep of the electoral college by getting much more than the required majority of 270 votes.