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Administering food security
The delay in the National Advisory Council NAC finalising its proposals for food security legislation seems to stem from the realisation that legislation is easy, execution is difficult. Once a right to food law is in place, the governments at the Centre and in the states will be expected to deliver, failing which there could be serious political backlash. Identifying the beneficiary is one problem, delivering food to the beneficiary is the second and bigger problem. It is now clear that the unique identity card developed by the Unique Identification Authority of India UIDAI would form the basis for choosing the beneficiaries of the right to food law. The main objective of doing so, evidently, is to distinguish between genuine and bogus beneficiaries of both the public distribution system PDS and the food security law. The number of fake ration cards in existence today is shockingly large.
2010-09-05 21:42:17
Tribunal dimensions 'force of attraction' rule
The challenges for foreign law firms in India seem unending. Late last year, the Mumbai High Court had ruled that foreign law firms are not allowed to practice in India on non-litigation areas. Though unrelated, recently the Mumbai tax tribunal in the case of Linklaters LLP has held that the UK law firm was taxable on the entire income from services rendered to its Indian clients, irrespective of the place where the services were rendered .
2010-09-05 21:36:17
NCP builds commercial presence in US
The Nationalist Congress Party NCP, led by Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, has become the third major political party from India after the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party to establish a presence in the United States, but the first to do so as a for-profit group.
2010-09-05 21:44:17
Permanent establishment significant for foreign COs companies
The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements DTAAs signed between India and other countries determine the tax liability of a foreign enterprise in India. As a matter of fact the provision of DTAAs which India has signed with other countries, e.g. tax treaty with South Africa will supersede the domestic tax law of India and Africa.
2010-09-05 21:45:17
In Nepal crisis, India believes Centrists are key
Even a sixth round of voting for a new prime minister is unable to produce a majority consensus on anyone.
2010-09-05 21:39:17
Q: Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director, International Energy Agency
Promoting energy-efficient technologies to reach the Blue Map scenario of 50 per cent reduction from 2005 energy-related emission levels by 2050 is the aim of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, a non-government organisation advising 28 member-countries. Its executive director, Nobuo Tanaka, who in his earlier role as a Japanese diplomat oversaw the implementation of Japans international nuclear energy policy and led negotiations of bilateral nuclear agreements, spoke to Jyoti Mukul and Sudheer Pal Singh on Indias energy challenges.
2010-09-05 21:45:17
Most Japanese want Naoto Kan to stay as PM: Polls - Times of India
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2010-09-05 20:37:28
In Britain, Labour Politicians Call for a Second Look at a Phone Scandal
Downing Street s chief communications officer, Andy Coulson, is being accused again of encouraging reporters to illegally intercept messages from the cellphones of public figures when he was editor of The News of the World.
2010-09-05 20:12:21
India, Russia to develop 6,000kmph cruise missiles
India will soon become the first country to have cruise missiles with hyper speed of over 6,000 km per hour, as an agreement for their joint development will be signed with Russia during the visit of president Dmitry Medvedev in December.
2010-09-05 20:00:00
India, Pak defence & spy chiefs need to talk: Experts
Defence service chiefs and intelligence chiefs of India and Pak should set up regular dialogue and contact as an essential part of confidence building between the neighbours, think tanks in the two countries suggested after a meeting.
2010-09-05 20:00:00