India’s Strategic Dilemma: How to Respond to a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan
India needs to consider the political and military consequences of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan and formulate a policy to support Taiwan's freedom
Category Public Policies, Programs and Schemes
Anti-Doping Bill 2022
The National Anti-Doping Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on December 17 2021. After being referred to the Standing Committee on Education, Women, Children, Youth, and Sports for recommendation on March 23 2022, the bill was finally passed in the lower house on July 22, 2022, and in the upper house on August 03, 2022.
GST and Its Failures: Explained
GST has been in operation since July 1, 2017. In the six years that have elapsed, has it fulfilled the promises that its proponents had vociferously claimed for it. It was billed as the second freedom since it was supposed to unify the `fragmented’ Indian market. That was the parallel drawn with 1947 which brought together the states to form India as a union of states.
Video: Himanshu Shekhar | Reporting Parliament, & Laws & Policies | Special Lecture | LPPYF Law and Public Policy Youth Fellowship IMPRI
Video: Himanshu Shekhar | Reporting Parliament, & Laws & Policies | Special Lecture | LPPYF Law and Public Policy Youth Fellowship IMPRI LPPYF Law and Public Policy Youth Fellowship | An Online National Summer School Program | A Two- Month Online…
GST Council’s Decision Could Kill India’s Online Gaming Industry
The decision of the GST Council to levy a GST of 28 percent on the entire turnover of online gaming is plain wrong. It is bad in principle, against settled jurisprudence, harms a burgeoning industry with enormous potential for jobs and innovation, and, most perversely, carries an inbuilt algorithm to depress overall tax collections. It should not stand.
Onion Prices: A Perennial Problem
In response to the exponential hike in onion prices in the mandis (wholesale fruit and vegetable bazaars) and retail markets, the Union Government reintroduced stock limits on October 23 on traders and wholesalers by invoking a provision of the newly-amended Essential Commodities Act of 1955. Before this, to ease rising prices, the Government had banned export of the bulb and relaxed import norms to increase the stocks available for retail trade.
Video: Adv Flavia Agnes | Women’s Rights & Legislative Reforms | Distinguished Lecture | LPPYF Law and Public Policy Youth Fellowship
Video: Adv Flavia Agnes | Women’s Rights & Legislative Reforms | Distinguished Lecture | Day 12 LPPYF Law and Public Policy Youth Fellowship LPPYF Law and Public Policy Youth Fellowship | An Online National Summer School Program | A Two- Month…