Direct tax collection needs more attention

Income tax accounts for 27 per cent of the total revenue of the country. In the budget speech of FY18, the Finance Minister contemplated on raising this share to 50 per cent -- a difficult task and ambitious target but not impossible. In that speech he also stated a three-prong...

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Number of UAV start-ups on rise in developing countries

Around the dawn of the 21st century, the world is gradually getting used to a new set of tech terminologies, starting from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones), big data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) to start-ups. We are also at the cusp of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), which is likely...

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