by Pranjit Agarwala
The confidentiality clause in the Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty (DTAA) does prevent the Government of India from making public the identity of account holders without prima-facie evidence of wrong-doing. It, however, does (...)
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The Confidentiality Clause And Fighting Black Money At Home
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Foreign Currency Derivatives — A Sophisticated Loot?
27 December 2014by Vahidha Nizam
A sophisticated loot of more than one lakh crores of rupees through ‘foreign currency derivatives’, is alleged to have been aided and abetted by the Indian banks. Under the garb of a benign taxonomy ‘foreign currency derivatives’ (...) -
Dimensions of Progressive Politics: The Indian Context
27 December 2014by T.K. Oommen
What is reckoned as ‘progressive’ depends on the benchmark from which we start and the combination of factors which we take into account. The 20th century witnessed three models: (1) Capitalism, multi-party democracy and (...) -
India’s Foreign Trade Deficit, Rupee Slide and the Fraud of Modern Economics
27 December 2014, by B P MathurThe intense pressure being applied on India to sign the WTO’s trade facilitation agreement, sidetracking India’s legitimate concern of food security, shows the hard reality of international economic relations. Indian policy-makers fail to (...) -
Gandhi’s Champaran Struggle
27 December 2014, by Girish MishraTwo epoch-making events took place in 1917. The first was the Bolshevik Revolution in November that ended the Czarist rule over Russia and heralded the dawn of socialism in the world. The second event that did not immediately appear very (...) -
Imaging the Hindu Rashtra
27 December 2014, by A K BiswasPart-I
Equality, Human Dignity victim of Hindu Rashtra
“Know that a Brahmana of ten years and Kshatriya of a hundred years stand to each other in the relation of father and son; but between those two the Brahmana is the father.”1 —Manu, Ch. II. 135 (...) -
Incisive Analysis of India’s ‘Skewed’ Rise in Contemporary Times
27 December 2014by Nirupam Sen
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Indians in a Globalising World ranks with the best of Dilip Hiro’s books and with the best of (...) -
Yugoslavia — What Happened To It? Can It Re-emerge? : Interview with Branislav Gosovic
27 December 2014(Branislav Gosovic, who holds a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is a retired UN career official. From 1991 to 2005, he was in charge of the Secretariat of the South Centre, an intergovernmental think-tank (...) -
Fifteenth India-Russia Economic Summit: Advantage Russia
27 December 2014by R.G. Gidadhubli
The 15th India-Russia summit meeting held in New Delhi on December 11, 2014 has reiterated close and cordial strategic ties built and sustained by both the countries during the last few decades. Twenty agreements have been (...) -
Plain-speaking with Obama may Help
27 December 2014, by M K BhadrakumarThe remarks by the US deputy spokesperson Marie Harf at the State Department press briefing in Washington on December 5 regarding the terrorist attack on the Indian Army base in Uri in Jammu and Kashmir were rather curious, to say the least. (...)