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    Opinion - Page 8

    Spotlight on prospective GST rate cuts pushes current sales into the dark

    TK Arun
    20 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST

    The proposed GST revision requires a clear definition of luxury, distinction between premium and luxury goods; while online gaming deserves a rational tax framework

    Effective September 22, Goods and Services Tax (GST) has become a two-tier structure of 5 and 18 per cent
    Opinion
    Trump-Putin talks: Implications and what it means for peace in Ukraine
    Opinion

    Trump-Putin talks: Implications and what it means for peace in Ukraine

    18 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
    Why Uttarakhands UP-style conversion law raises concern
    Opinion

    Why Uttarakhand's UP-style conversion law raises concern

    17 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
    A year after RG Kar horror, anger, discontent still on the boil
    Opinion

    A year after RG Kar horror, anger, discontent still on the boil

    17 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
    PM Modis I-Day speech: Clear bid to placate RSS ahead of its centenary

    PM Modi's I-Day speech: Clear bid to placate RSS ahead of its centenary

    16 Aug 2025 12:18 PM IST
    Onus is on EC to prove voter ineligibility, not the citizen

    Onus is on EC to prove voter ineligibility, not the citizen

    14 Aug 2025 6:09 PM IST
    Rahul Gandhi

    Vote theft row: Rahul shows why Opposition Leader's role is vital

    14 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
    Kashmir books

    Inside the blacklist: 25 books banned in Jammu and Kashmir for inciting 'secessionism'

    14 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
    India’s stray dog crisis: Why SCs new directive is impossible to implement

    India’s stray dog crisis: Why SC's new directive is impossible to implement

    13 Aug 2025 3:06 PM IST
    Stray dogs

    Our streets are meant for walking, not for dogs

    13 Aug 2025 3:02 PM IST
    Supreme Court

    Vote theft controversy: Why the Supreme Court must step in

    13 Aug 2025 6:20 AM IST
    How Sonia candidly sounded alarm on ‘ideological coup’ to remake India

    How Sonia candidly sounded alarm on ‘ideological coup’ to remake India

    10 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Jagdeep Dhankhar

    Not giving Dhankhar a farewell a sorry reflection on India’s public culture

    9 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Judges on vacations, cases pending

    What our judges should learn from Narayana Murthy and Subrahmanyan

    8 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Donald Trump, Narendra Modi

    ‘Modi’s friend’ Trump’s 50 pc tariff blows hole in India’s foreign policy

    KS Dakshina Murthy
    7 Aug 2025 2:56 PM IST

    India cannot afford to antagonise either Trump or Putin by aligning with one of them. At the same time, it is not in a position to oblige both

    Gaza

    Palestine, Mahatma Gandhi and Indian judiciary

    3 Aug 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin

    Putin-Trump tango turns into fisticuffs; Modi trapped in between

    2 Aug 2025 6:23 PM IST
    Narendra Modi, Donald Trump

    Modi must pay a price to tackle the new challenges from Trump’s US

    31 July 2025 5:41 PM IST
    India-US trade deal

    Why India should stand up to Trump, emerge a better economy

    31 July 2025 7:35 AM IST
    Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar

    Is EC’s Bihar SIR a ploy to unseat Nitish, put BJP in the saddle?

    28 July 2025 10:05 AM IST
    gaza mother with malnourished child

    No room for corpses: Israel’s Himalayan sins in Gaza touch a new low

    27 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Bihar SIR

    Bihar electoral roll revision: Elitist and arbitrary, SIR!

    26 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Silk Board Junction Bangalore Bengaluru

    Bengaluru to undergo tunnel road bypass ‘surgery’, prognosis is scary

    23 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Ashoka University Assistant Professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad

    Prof Mahmudabad case: Is SC lurching from one absurdity to another?

    19 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    Trump always chickens out T-shirt

    Why America's trading partners should wait for Trump to chicken out

    18 July 2025 3:14 PM IST
    Congress MP Shashi Tharoor

    Why Shashi Tharoor’s take on the Emergency is deeply flawed

    15 July 2025 6:29 PM IST
    NOS funding cuts signal systemic exclusion of Dalits, minorities from educational opportunities

    NOS funding cuts signal systemic exclusion of Dalits, minorities from educational opportunities

    13 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    RSS-Bhagwat meeting

    Will Bhagwat retire at 75 and put pressure on Modi to follow suit?

    12 July 2025 9:23 AM IST
    People take part in a protest demanding the end of the war and immediate release of hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip

    How weakened Hamas faces destruction similar to LTTE in 2009

    11 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
    India diplomatic balancing act Dalai Lamas succession, Sheikh Hasinas shadow politics

    India walks tightrope over Dalai Lama succession, Hasina’s shadow politics

    10 July 2025 6:30 AM IST
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