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When a ‘vegetarian’ Union minister tucked into mutton at a BJP Eid bash

ThePrint Team -
Pre-Truth – snappy, witty and significant snippets from the world of politics and government.

New IRS data says 72% of Indians now have LPG stoves, bolsters Modi govt claim

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The latest Indian Readership Survey claims a 3 per cent increase since 2017 in the share of population that can read and understand English.

A judge who loves golf and Barack Obama’s IAS invitee: Here are India’s Lokpal members

ThePrint Team -
Eight years after social activist Anna Hazare launched his movement to seek a Lokpal, India's first Lokpal was approved by the President Tuesday.

IRS officer Sushil Chandra appointed election commissioner, 2019 team now complete

Sanya Dhingra -
IIT graduate Sushil Chandra is an IRS officer of the 1980 batch and is currently the CBDT chairperson.

IRS officers reclaim their turf in ED, led for 15 years by IAS & IPS officers

Ananya Bhardwaj -
Current Enforcement Directorate S.K. Mishra, a former income tax officer, is pushing for vacant posts to be filled by IRS officers.

K.V. Chowdary, first IRS officer to serve as CVC, is no stranger to controversy

Remya Nair -
K.V. Chowdary is said to have been as close to the power centres in UPA as he is in NDA.

Top angel investor & former IRS officer says civil servants throttling India startup scene

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Venktesh Shukla, a leading angel investor, says India's civil services officers are the ‘worst’ to devise startup policies.

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

Sanya Dhingra -
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).
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Vijay is winning nickname war in Tamil Nadu. He’s attacking Brand Stalin with ‘uncle’ taunt

Gautham PS -
If Stalin ignores the taunt, it spreads unchecked. If he responds, he legitimises Vijay. Either way, the Tamil Nadu politics binary bends.

I will keep attacking India even though my missiles reach nowhere: Pakistani General X

Give Trump a Nobel already. He has united Modi, Xi and Putin

Economy

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Defence

Trump to sign executive order to rebrand Pentagon, reviving historic ‘Department of War’ name

Javaria Rana -
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defence the ‘Department of War’, in...

National Interest

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

Shekhar Gupta -
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.

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