-The Economic Times Yogi Adityanath’s government in Uttar Pradesh opened a pandora’s box of loan waivers and there seems to be no stopping it. The BJP, perceived by many as a reformist party committed to addressing chronic structural issues, is taking populism to new heights. Loan waivers could prove to be a huge drain for the exchequer and might deal a blow to the creation of much-needed infrastructure in agriculture. The chief...
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New crop of leaders -Rasheed Kidwai
-The Telegraph Bhopal: The turbaned, white-haired, kurta-dhoti-wearing "Tauji" figures are there too, but one outstanding feature of the current farmer agitation in Madhya Pradesh are its jeans-clad, smartphone-wielding spearheads. If the veteran "Kakkaji" Shiv Kumar Sharma is the public face of the movement, which lacks a central leadership, much of the spadework is being done by a band of young, bilingual, stats-savvy and largely apolitical agriculture graduates. Their leader Kedar Sirohi, who is...
More »Aadhaar must for I-T returns, pan applications from July 1
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The government said on Saturday that filing income tax returns and applications for permanent account number or pan cards will, from July 1, mandatorily require Aadhaar cards, or at least the applicant's enrolment number for the unique identity (UID). The order came a day after the Supreme Court upheld the law, Section 139AA of the Income Tax Act, that mandates the possession of Aadhaar cards...
More »Farmers protest: In mobilisation, farmer allies turned on govts -Partha Sarahti Biswas, Kavitha Iyer & Zeeshan Shaikh
-The Indian Express As the farm protests in Maharashtra spilled over to MP, with five people killed in police firing in Mandsaur last week, The Sunday Express looks at the economics and politics of the unrest ONE gloomy afternoon this March, a disillusioned Dhanu Dhorde Patil, 43, sat watching his television in Dongaon village, about 2 km from Puntamba in Ahmednagar district, the heart of the recent farmers’ agitation in Maharashtra....
More »Supreme Court upholds law making pan linking with Aadhaar must -Dhananjay Mahapatra
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: In a major victory for the Narendra Modi government that is set on making Aadhaar compulsory for several kinds of transactions, the Supreme Court upheld on Friday the law making the UID number a must for filing income tax returns and its linkage to pan card. In what could cheer up the government, which faced anxious times while defending validity of Section 139AA of the Income...
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