Tag: indian government

Over 120 crore people are enrolled in Aadhaar and India is adding one the size of Singapore each week to Aadhaar. Advanced countries and mostly smaller ones have it like social security numbers, and given India's size, it should provide much greater benefits. So what are these:  for businesses it… Read More

Different taxes and fees are critical and the main source for income or revenue for the central government. So from where and how does it gets its money: 1) Income Taxes generates over 23% - of the countries 120+ crore population, only 2 crore returns are filed and around 1.5… Read More

Kairna in UP, which lies north of Delhi and Meerut got its bad name as it was reported that hundreds of Hindu businessman and local population had fled their homes and livelihood due to numerous cold blooded daylight murders of its community by gangs - which naturally sent shock waves. It… Read More

By law, property left behind by those who left India for Pakistan or China and took up respective citizenship during partition are treated as enemy property. So far, nearly 9,500 enemy properties have been confirmed with a estimated value of Rs. 1 lakh crore which are to be auctioned by the Indian Government -… Read More

Before the current government, Indian businesses and corporate houses had the unwritten assurance that if they failed or defaulted on their loans, the government of India would step in and provide relief or support. Companies borrowing excessively or gave loan guarantees to enable other companies to borrow. With Indian parliament… Read More

With consumer complaining that some businesses, shops, malls, restaurants adding GST to the MRP and jacking up the price (some real confusion but some fleecing the consumer), government is taking confusion out of this. For example, some shops were adding GST to purchase and some were not. Now for all products… Read More

The government now plans to spend heavily on massive infrastructure development, nearly Rs. 7 lakh crores to build and upgrade roads and bridges, to boost the economy and to create employment. The plan is to build nearly 90,000 kilometers of roads to connect 17 states and 40+ major metros-economic corridors. It includes super highway,… Read More

Supreme Court almost came to passing a judgement to ask the Government to not deport the nearly 1 lac Rohingyas Muslims who entered India illegally. This was till Government of India's lawyer asked them not to pass any judgment due to larger consequences. Firstly, several people feel that it is not appropriate… Read More

Our Finance Minister released Google's payment App - Tez. One is left to wonder why the Government had to release a private and that too a non-Indian company's product - a payment App in this case? This action could be viewed as an endorsement or a preference. Google does not need any more… Read More

Our Home Ministry told Parliament that there is a massive police personnel shortfall in India. There is a more than 5 lakh shortfall between an authorized strength of nearly 23 lakhs, there are only a little more than 17 lakh staff or a shortfall of nearly 25%. The shortfall and vacancies are… Read More

Prime Minister Modi had 14 million fans in May 2014 when the current Lok Sabha election results were declared, currently he has 42 million fans or a 3 fold increase in 3 years. At this rate, we can soon expect even 100 million fans or more. And there are crores… Read More

Both are successful people and have come up the hard way and continue to work very hard. President Trump has never been in government, while PM Modi has been a social worker, an an elected representative, a Chief Minister (arguably one of the most successful) and now the prime minister… Read More

Indian Government must give the Indian Army the full freedom to do whatever to protect its troops, fight terrorists and take revenge. In recent days, Pakistani army tortured and mutilated the bodies of Indian soldiers, then 5-6 terrorists visited the home of a Army officer in Kashmir and shot him… Read More

USA under the new government is working on making changes to the critical H1-B visas that Infosys and several other Indian IT companies have benefited. To presumably deflect this political pressure, Inforsys has announced plans to hire more than 10,000 US locals in programming, artificial intelligence and R&D and setup… Read More

Can you imagine - suddenly western countries, who have enough problems of their own, have started worrying about the collapse and growing irrelevance of our opposition parties. They were champions of the Congress for decades and were really excited about the AAP, but were almost always unfairly and highly critical… Read More