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Delhi HC seeks Centre’s response as plea questions exclusion of visually impaired from vehicle GST relief

Currently, this benefit is only extended to persons with orthopaedic physical disabilities having a benchmark disability of 40 percent or more.

For Modi govt’s ill-thought-out policies, civil servants haven’t been blamed enough

Modi’s ‘Minimum Government, Maximum Governance’ slogan was meant to reduce bureaucratic discretion. Unfortunately, the reality has been the opposite.

Not all food inflation coming from bad place, says RBI Monetary Policy Committee’s Ram Singh

RBI Monetary Policy Committee member Ram Singh says Budget 2025 provides opportunity for govt to show it is doing its part to address growth-inflation dynamics.

Dashing through the snow, in a freebie-laden sleigh & packaged food for thought

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

How she likes her popcorn: Fresh, hot & taxed

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Watch CutTheClutter: Popcorn & the bureaucratic entanglements of GST

In Episode 1578 of #CutTheClutter, Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta discusses why simplifying GST is crucial to reforms in India's tax system.

Time to break out the (caramelised) popcorn

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

GST is boomeranging on the idea; it’s encouraging evasion by taxmen

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

‘1,285 cr’ fraud unearthed by Delhi CGST Dept, accused sold Apple electronic products

Arrested accused Kapil Arora made sales of Rs 1,285 cr worth of iPhones & laptops between 2018-19 and 2024-25 but showed tax authorities sales of Rs 22 crore, say Delhi authorities.

Chemistry of curd to physics of paratha, GST rates on food are a multi-disciplinary tangle

Issue of GST on food items is in news again after hotel owner’s viral interaction with Finance Minister Sitharaman last week. But complexities highlighted go back further in time.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.