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Sri Lanka: One Year of National Unity Government An Assessment
September 2 , 2016 Anushree Ghisad
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It is said that if Presidential Elections held in Sri Lanka in January 2015 was a referendum, the 2015 General Elections that followed was in a way electoral validation the results of that process.

Sri Lanka, Neighbourhood Studies

Tags : National Unity Government , Sri Lanka , United National Party

ASEAN-India and ASEAN Summits: Opportunity and Challenges for ‘Acting East’
September 2 , 2016 Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF Maj Gen (Retd.) P K Chakravorty
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The month of September 2016 commences with a number of important summits. The first would be the G-20 summit, followed by a series of ASEAN related summits including the 11th East Asia Summit and 14th A...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Acting East , ASEAN Summits , ASEAN-India

Offshoots of New Financial Governance
August 30 , 2016 Rajesh Singh
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There has of late been speculation that the Modi Government could usher in substantial changes in the country’s fiscal governance through three methods: First, by revising the financial year from the pr...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Modi Government , NITI Aayog , Policies & Perspectives , Railway Budget

Big Business and Small Families
August 28 , 2016 Prof R Vaidyanathan
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Throughout sixties/seventies advertisements in print and visual media in the west projected “happy” families consist of husband /wife one boy one girl may be a dog. Happy family will not have mother-in-...

Economic Studies

Tags : Civilization , Post–contraceptive

Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN): Caution Should be the Key Word
August 27 , 2016 Prof R Vaidyanathan
Views: 6716
A New Regime of Taxation

Economic Studies

Tags : Goods and Services , GSTN , Input Tax Credit , Tax Network

Sedition versus free speech: The conflict goes on
August 23 , 2016 Rajesh Singh
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A clamour to repeal the law dealing with sedition gains ground every time the police somewhere in the country files a case under the provision. The most recent example of this has happened in Bengaluru,...

Governance and Political Studies

Tags : Bengaluru , Kashmir , Policies & Perspectives

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