@EconomicTimes @timesofindia @swaminomics Thank you for this brilliant piece. I hope it reaches those who need it most. I'll do my best in this endeavour.
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@SirKazamJeevi He lost to his delusional sense of entitlement. He never stood a chance. I'm sure soon he'll pan the awards and say he was joking!
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You know what will hurt Trump more?
He lost to a woman
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@aayeff1 @PiyushGoyal O, his memory is alright. It's his party's propaganda he's spewing.
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@PiyushGoyal You should take a memory job. GST was for a long time planned & developed by the INC & UPA. But not to become the one Modi introduced hurriedly in July 2017.
Also, remember Modi bitterly criticized GST as CM of Gujarat.
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The Congress needs a memory jog!
Before GST, India's indirect tax system was a chaotic web; every state had its own rates, levies, and procedures. Businesses struggled with cascading taxes, endless paperwork, and high compliance costs. In short, doing business in India had become expensive and exhausting.
It was PM @NarendraModi ji who understood these challenges and delivered what Congress only talked about - a single national market with common rates and procedures.
Since then, GST has created a transparent system that curbed evasion, expanded the tax base, largely formalised the economy, delivered record revenues, empowering states, and boosting investor and business confidence.
Now, the #NextGenGST Reforms mark another leap forward. These reforms are not just about reducing tax rates, but about creating a virtuous cycle of growth. Lower prices will lead to higher demand and household savings, and reduced input costs will make MSMEs more competitive.
This is true cooperative federalism and citizen-centric reform, strengthening businesses and aligning India with its global growth ambitions. But for the Congress, a rising Bharat will always be an impediment to its narrow agenda of dynastic politics and failed economics.
Jairam Ramesh@Jairam_Ramesh
The Prime Minister addressed the nation today to claim sole ownership of the amendments made to the GST regime by the GST Council, a constitutional body. The Indian National Congress has long argued that the GST has been a Growth Suppressing Tax. It is plagued with a high number of tax brackets, punitive tax rates for items of mass consumption, large-scale evasion and misclassification, costly compliance burdens, and an inverted duty structure (lower tax on output as compared to inputs). We have been demanding a GST 2.0 since July 2017 itself. This was a key pledge made in our Nyay Patra for the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. The current GST reforms are inadequate. Outstanding issues include – • The widespread concerns of MSMEs - the major employment generators in the economy - must be addressed meaningfully. Apart from major procedural changes, this involves further increasing the thresholds that apply to interstate supplies. • Sectoral issues that have surfaced — for instance in textiles, tourism, exporters, handicrafts and agricultural inputs — must be tackled. • States should be incentivized to move towards the introduction of state-level GST to cover electricity, alcohol, petroleum, and real estate as well. • The key demand of the states made in the true spirit of cooperative federalism — namely, the extension of compensation for another five years to fully protect their revenues— remains unaddressed Whether this round of GST changes--delayed by 8 years--will actually boost the private investment that is essential for higher GDP growth remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the trade deficit with China has doubled in the last five years to cross $ 100 billion. And Indian business is crippled by fear and oligopolisation that is leading many to resettle abroad.
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Can anyone tell me why I am such an emotional person? Yes I am going through menopause but I cry sooooo much...even when things aren't that deep! I want to turn off my tear ducts or whatever they are.
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@zoo_bear @RShivshankar And even if he was dancing , he's still true to his job - then and now. Unlike godi journalists who sold their soul.
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@RShivshankar Hello @RShivshankar, The first video is edited. That's not President Zelenskyy dancing. Here's the original video.
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PERFORMERS. BUT WHO HAS WRITTEN THE SCRIPT?
Ukraine got comedian Zelenskyy
Nepal may end up with rapper "Balen"
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@NishantSahdev @mid_day @sundaymidday Thanks for this. Echoes what many of us are thinking nowadays. With the government not speeding up enough to take note and act, our future may be doomed. On another note, humans need to be united more than ever to deal with this.
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@SirKazamJeevi I still don't get this. What god like thing has he done in their lives that they keep howling and calling him god? By god, even god must be wondering up there. Kya nautanki hai!
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When Modi travels overseas, his handlers & PR team only focus on India media coverage, because the sole objective is to project Modi as a global messiah to domestic voters
Example: Modi lands in the UK. As of 9 AM India time, no mention of this on BBC’s main website front page
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Oops… Modi might have already planned a visit to these countries.
Garima@j_garima_j
“AI will take your jobs” Meanwhile the job I aspire to have:
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@SirKazamJeevi If only these words were in their dictionary, they wouldn't have been megalomaniac. Sigh!
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Why are all tyrants & megalomaniacs so scared of comedy, humor, satire and sarcasm?
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You think Modi has his Birth Certificate document?
If not, how does he qualify to vote then?
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Moral of the story: we NEED a retirement age for politicians... globally.
Rajat Sharma@RajatSharmaLive
उम्र सिर्फ नंबर है, 79 साल के Trump ने दुनिया को हिलाया हुआ है, 74 साल के मोदी ने भारत को जगाया हुआ है, 72 साल के पुतिन ने सब को छकाया हुआ है, 72 के शी जिनपिंग ने सब को सताया हुआ है, 86 साल के ख़ामेनेई ने सब को पकाया हुआ है.
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US Court To Proceed Against Indian Billionaire Gautam Adani On Bribery Case apnnews.com/us-court-to-pr…
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Tell me just one thing which has become cheaper in the last 11 years?
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@Sanginamby You have aptly summarized Tharoor. That indeed makes him a unsuitable leader who is slimy and self serving. Intelligence is used not to conduct oneself with integrity and interest of the party and nation, but to wrap oneself with several layers of protection.
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@SketchesbyBoze The world's going crazy fighting and siding religious and territorial wars when we should actually be worried about the new unchecked species we are creating-AI.
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This is always where AI was leading: increased surveillance, the imprisonment of dissenters, automated bombings of civilians in foreign lands. AI is inherently fascist. The tech industry is building the engine of our oppression.
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
JUST IN: OpenAI has won a $200 million contract with US Department of Defense
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