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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicCentral Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Topic: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs

Over 99 cases of economic offences registered against MPs, MLAs in five years

CBI has booked two sitting and nine former MPs and five sitting and two former MLAs in 14 cases. The ED has registered 82 cases against lawmakers.

Under fire for ‘tax terrorism’, Modi govt to clear all dues and refunds by year-end

Move seen as a course correction after opposition slammed govt over frequent 'tax raids' on assesses in the name of black money.

We are the real IRS, don’t call us ‘I-T’, say India’s taxmen

IRS Association, largely comprising officers from the I-T dept, has written to the CBDT that they be referred to as IRS and not as IRS(I-T).

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.