Despite housing sales figures for the second quarter of 2026 suggesting a slowdown, additional data from the same period presents a contrasting narrative.
As nation-State's power to tax, regulate technology & oversee work erodes, its role as default provider of public goods—and case for home-biased investing—comes under growing pressure.
The bench allowed a fresh order if the tax department examined the facts independently, after it found the GST notice was uploaded on the portal with undeleted AI instructions.
Annual GST collections hit a record Rs 23.11 lakh crore in 2025-26. The taxpayer base has grown from 60 lakh registrations in 2017 to 1.65 crore today.
The Union government has consistently defended the PROG Act on grounds of public health, consumer protection, prevention of addiction, money laundering and financial fraud.
The Supreme Court ruled that where money is involved, distinction between games of skill and gambling loses relevance. Court also says fundamental rights don’t apply to gambling and betting.
On Tuesday, distillers met Excise Minister R.B. Timmapur & officials in Vidhana Soudha, a day after Karnataka Excise (Excise Duty & Charges) (2nd Amendment) Rules, 2026 were rolled out.
No matter what some Pakistani experts might say, India's gap is not the same as Pakistan's disconnect when it comes to the tax base. Start with the latest official numbers.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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