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Government announces Rs.50,000 crore overhaul of export tax refund scheme - Gireesh Chandra Prasad and ASIt Ranjan Mishra

-Livemint.com * Scheme for remission of duties of taxes on export products will replace Merchandise Exports from India Scheme (MEIS) scheme, said FM * The new scheme which will benefit all products including textiles is more beneficial to the industry, the minister said at a briefing Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday announced a slew of measures including a new attractive scheme to refund the duties and taxes on exports that will replace...

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How No Food Waste works to redistribute surplus food to the needy in Tamil Nadu -Nahla Nainar

-The Hindu The world sits up and takes notice when surplus food feeds the hungry, instead of ending up in the bin, say volunteers of No Food Waste How often do we think of surplus food that has gone untouched at a wedding banquet, restaurant or office canteen. What happens to the leftovers? Coimbatore resident G Padmanabhan and his friends Sudhakar Mohan and N Balaji began No Food Waste (NFW) in 2014 with...

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Development matters, but so does identity -Rajeev Bhargava

-The Hindu Disturbing a federal system that protects the complexity of human identities could pave the way for conflict It is sometimes claimed that once ordinary people benefit from economic development, they automatically set ASIde issues related to their identity. Such a view was found not only in materialist theories that gave explanatory primacy in human life to economic factors but also among leaders of social and political movements. Nehru, for instance,...

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Kashmir clampdown is driving up apple prices, you could soon be paying Rs 200-250/kg -Samyak Pandey

-ThePrint.in Apples from Kashmir start coming to Delhi in the last week of August, but the communication & transport restrictions have skewed the supply this year. New Delhi: Apple prices are likely to double in Delhi’s retail market in a month’s time because of the severe disruption in the supply chain from Kashmir, traders at Delhi’s Azadpur Mandi, ASIa’s largest wholesale market for vegetables and fruits, told ThePrint. Apples from Kashmir start coming...

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Policing in India Report: Prevalence of gender bias and inequality -Ditsa Bhattacharya

-Newsclick.in SPIR 2019 notes that representation of women in the Indian police continues to be very poor, at just 7.28%. One in four male police personnel is highly biased against women in police, according to the Status of Policing in India Report (SPIR) 2019. The report is based on surveys conducted by Common Cause, Tata Trusts, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), and Lokniti, and was published on August 27,...

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