Centre moots two-rate GST system as part of PM Modi’s ‘Diwali gift’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Diwali gift” to the people of India, of reforms to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system, will likely be across three pillars — structural reforms, rate rationalisation, and ease of living — and could entail a shift to a two-rate GST system from the current five-rate system.
In his longest-ever Independence Day speech, PM Modi emphasises self-reliance, self-respect; warns of attempt to change India’s demography
Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch with policy prescriptions for economic- and security-related reforms for self-reliance in his Independence Day address, stating that for any nation, even today, the yardstick of aatma samman (self-respect) remained aatmanirbharta (self-reliance), while at the same time warning of a conspiracy to change the demographic make up of the country.
PM Modi has dishonoured memory of martyrs by praising RSS in I-Day speech: CPI(M)
