-Livemint.com While all of the post offices in India are supposed to have internet (and be digitized by the end of the year), internet connectivity is non-functional at several units Last month I read an interesting article about India’s postmen. It talked about the changing duties of postmen and the changing role of post offices. By the end of the article I was thinking of a scenario where our close to 2...
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Do not force bankers to do Aadhaar seeding: bank officers' body
-The Hindu Business Line AIBOC questions legality of mandating UID linking of accounts Coimbatore: The All India Bank Officers’ Confederation (AIBOC) wants Aadhaar seeding of accounts put on hold till the Supreme Court comes out with a clear directive. “The government should make it clear to the people that the seeding of Aadhaar is voluntary and not mandatory,” said D Thomas Franco, General Secretary, AIBOC. He said the Aadhaar Act of 2016 was meant...
More »India has imported millions of tonnes of GM food products in violation of food safety laws -Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
-Scroll.in The food safety authority looked away as the environment ministry kept clearing consignments of genetically modified soyabean and canola oils from abroad. Violating laws governing food safety in India, the central government has over the last five years allowed more than 15 million tonnes of genetically modified soyabean and canola oils to be imported into the country for human consumption. That such imports were illegal came to light with the Food...
More »Has hunger INCreased in India in recent years? -Roshan Kishore
-Livemint.com IFPRI’s latest Global Hunger Index shows that under-nutrition has decreased rather than INCreased in India The Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has ranked India at the 100th position among 119 countries in its 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) rankings. India has had a higher rank in previous versions of these rankings. These findings have created an impression that the prevalence of hunger has INCreased in India in recent years. A...
More »Govt planning steps to ease GST compliance burden on SMEs: Hasmukh Adhia -Gireesh Chandra Prasad
-Livemint.com The simplification process may result in some readjustment of GST rates, INCluding a possible reduction in tax of some items that are in the highest tax slab of 28% New Delhi: Policymakers are considering steps to ease the compliance burden related to the goods and services tax (GST) on small businesses and to make product classification for taxation less complicated, said revenue secretary Hasmukh Adhia. The simplification process may result in some...
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