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Fruit pulp, juice-based carbonated drinks not akin to water, attract 12%, not 28% GST, says Gauhati HC

Shishir Sinha

Fruit pulp or fruit juice based drinks or carbonated drinks would attract 12 per cent GST and not 28 per cent, Gauhati High Court has said. This could give various companies a sigh a relief as many ...[Continue Reading]

BusinessLine

over 1 year ago

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How post-9/11 Islamophobia sparked a Muslim political awakening in NYC

Arya Sundaram

Just a few days after the 9/11 attacks, then-16-year-old Faiza Ali was wearing a hijab at a Rite Aid near her home in Midwood, Brooklyn, when a screaming woman told her to leave. The woman pushed Ali ...[Continue Reading]

Gothamist

1 day ago

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A Democratic Blue Wave Could Hit Governors Races, Too

Ed Kilgore

Democrats have reason to hope that a blue wave in the midterm elections, fed by Donald Trumps unpopularity, will help them flip the House and maybe even the Senate this year. National dynamics are ty ...[Continue Reading]

New York Magazine

1 day ago


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Destroying Books to Build a Mind

Francesca Mancino

Petras, the bookstore owner in Toronto, said that she was generally comfortable selling to undercover buyers, but that she would never sell them a book with interesting marginalia or an important pro ...[Continue Reading]

The New Yorker

1 day ago


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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart

Jay Caspian Kang

Since then, the panic about tanking has waxed and waned. If there was a high-water mark, it was between 2013 and 2015, when Sam Hinkie, a former finance and management-consulting professional, took o ...[Continue Reading]

The New Yorker

1 day ago


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Write Things Down

Ben Thompson

It was Merlin Mann and his 43folders website who introduced me to David Allen and Getting Things Done. Getting Things Done, a book which I have gifted multiple people, is first and foremost a philoso ...[Continue Reading]

Stratechery.com

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