-Scroll.in Everyday politics dominates the discourse amongst the state’s large population of Hindu Bangladeshi migrants. “Has anyone ever thought of us here?” said 64-year old Mohadev Majumdar. “We got tortured there. And are now having to beg here. What will CAA do? We don’t have hope from any party.” In 1971, a teenaged Majumdar fled what was then East Pakistan after his father was shot dead by the army. While technically India closed...
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India moves to deport 14-year-old Rohingya girl but Myanmar refuses
-Scroll.in The teenager had requested to be sent to Bangladesh instead of Myanmar as her parents lived there. Myanmar on Thursday refused to allow entry to a 14-year-old Rohingya girl who was taken to a border town for deportation by Indian authorities, citing inappropriate circumstances, the Hindustan Times reported. Had the process been completed, the girl would have been the FIRst Rohingya national to be deported after the Myanmar military staged a coup...
More »GST mop-up hits a record in March -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu The indirect tax collections were 27% higher than that in March 2020. The gross GST collections in March hit a record of ₹1,23,902 crore, the Union Finance Ministry said on Thursday. This is the sixth month in a row that GST revenues have remained above ₹1 lakh crore. “The GST collections for March have created a record; it has never been so high. We have crossed the record collections by a...
More »Second surge puts children, younger adults at high risk, say experts -Bindu Shajan Perappadan
-The Hindu Multiple super spreader events happening in schools, colleges, offices, public transport. The second surge of COVID-19 puts children and younger adults at high risk with the situation being very grim especially in rural and tribal areas which were spared in the FIRst wave, warn experts even as the country has been witnessing a steady rise in cases and with the government on Thursday opening up vaccination to all persons 45...
More »Government withdraws order on rate cut on small savings schemes -Vikas Dhoot
-The Hindu This is the FIRst time that the Centre has scrapped the notified interest rates on small savings schemes after switching to a quarterly interest rate setting system in April 2016. Hours after notifying significant cuts in small savings instruments’ returns for this quarter, the government has backtracked on these sharp cuts. This is the FIRst time that the Centre has scrapped the notified interest rates on small savings schemes after...
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