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Anthony Albanese’s aged care push is smart policy. It’s the right thing to do too, but it does not address the fundamental problem of a privatised system and its profit-takers.
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The agreement will help in taking bilateral trade from USD 27 billion to USD 45-50 billion in next five years, Minister Piyush Goyal said
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The key reasons behind such a huge mopup are continued recovery in the economy and anti-evasion drive by the GST authorities
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The interest rate has not been revised since the first quarter of 2020-21
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These increase increases are the steepest single-day rise since the daily price revision was started in June 2017
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The Union Budget 2022-23 had proposed taxing crypto assets at the rate of 30 per cent, effective from April 1
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With investigators still sifting through the wreckage of a tragic Boeing 737 crash in southern China, a critically acclaimed Netflix documentary shows the aircraft’s manufacturer should be scrutinised as closely as its operator and flight crew. Marcus Reubenstein examines the deteriorating safety culture at the aviation behemoth.
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If the Morrison government really wants us to believe it will ship 70,000 tonnes of Australian coal straight by the Russian navy in the Black Sea, bang through a war zone, it is proving very reluctant to share even the slightest detail of how it might accomplish this feat of ridiculousness.
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Big Tobacco and Big Pharma have for years been headline grabbers but it’s “sweet as” for the global giants fuelling obesity and Type 2 Diabetes with their sugar-laden food and beverages. As far as the Morrison government is concerned any sugar tax proposal is “dead in the cola.”
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Colombo,
Sri Lanka’s deteriorating foreign-exchange shortage has seriously impacted the energy and education sector, which largely depends on imports.
Sri Lankan government admitted on Monday that it has run out of cash to buy paper and fuel. Gas stations across the country have out of fuel and examination in the schools has been postponed while, worsening the foreign reserves crisis has crippled the island nation’s economy.
Sri Lanka’s current economic situation does not even have sufficient US dollars to pay for two shipments of fuel. The fuel shipments have arrived today, but we are unable to pay for it, Sri Lanka’s Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said.
Last week, state-owned refinery Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said that CPC out of money to procure supplies from abroad. The CPC suffered USD 415 million losses in 2021 due to the sale of diesel at prices fixed by the government. Energy minister warned about the approaching fuel shortages due to the dollar crisis twice in January and once earlier this month.
The fuel shortage has led to long queues at understocked pumps across the country. Gammanpila estimated that the only way out of this mess is by increasing the retail prices of fuel. The minister also urged the government to reduce the customs duty on fuel imports in order to pass the benefits to the public.
Earlier this month, Sri Lanka bought 40,000 metric tons of diesel and petrol from major Indian Oil Corporation to meet the urgent energy requirements in the economic crisis. India a committed partner and a true friend of Sri Lanka. The High Commissioner Gopal Baglay handed over 40,000 MT fuel consignments by Indian Oil Company, a statement issued by the Indian High Commission.
The delivery of the fuel by India came amidst the announcement of Sri Lankan Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa’s visit to India in a fortnight to formalize India’s economic relief package for the country facing a serious forex crisis. Last month, India announced a USD 900 million bail out to Sri Lanka to build up its tired foreign reserves and for food imports, amid a shortage of almost all essential commodities in the country.
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LPG prices had gone up by close to Rs 100 per cylinder between July and October 6, 2021, before criticism halted the revision in rates
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The ABC had a choice this week: amplify Murdoch’s toxic “Mean Girls” coverage, or publish the truth, that is that News Corp is a political organisation which is exploiting the death of Kimberley Kitching for political purposes. It made the wrong choice. The ABC needs new management. Michael West reports.
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Improved human rights | A chant for Putin | Dame Caroline Haslett | Boycotting P&O
During his trip to Saudi Arabia, Boris Johnson praised the country’s improved human rights record (Boris Johnson upbeat on Saudi oil supply as kingdom executes three more, 16 March). As only three men were executed during his visit there, compared with 81 at the weekend, is that what Johnson means by an improving human rights record?
Jim King
Birmingham• During the Vietnam war, when Lyndon B Johnson was US president, demonstrators chanted daily outside the White House: “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” The same question would no doubt be asked of Putin by Russians (Survivors leaving basement of Mariupol theatre after airstrike, say officials, 17 March), if they did not live yet again under a repressive dictatorship.
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The UK needs to reduce its reliance on Russian oil. But the answer is not a kingdom that has just staged its largest mass execution
- Maya Foa is the director of the human rights charity Reprieve
Did Boris Johnson feel a flicker of alarm when the news broke that Saudi Arabia had executed 81 men just days before his in trip to meet Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman? The prime minister is not famed for being a man of conscience, but he has a solid grasp of optics. He surely knows that shaking hands with an autocrat who has just overseen a mass killing will harm Britain’s moral standing on the global stage, at a time when this could not be more important.
Since Jamal Khashoggi was lured into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 and murdered, western leaders have mostly stayed away from the kingdom and avoided photo ops with the crown prince.
Maya Foa is the director of Reprieve, a legal charity that works against grave human rights abuses
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Why would the ABC put barriers like a log-in in the way of Australians’ enjoyment of its cultural treasure house?
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British PM hopes to persuade Gulf state to raise oil and gas production to reduce reliance on Moscow
Boris Johnson has compared Vladimir Putin to a drug dealer who managed to hook western nations on Russian supplies of oil and gas, ahead of a trip to the Middle East in an attempt to diversify the sources of Britain’s energy imports.
The UK prime minister urged European countries to “get ourselves off that addiction” and said he wanted support from “the widest possible coalition” to help offset the pressures caused by spiralling oil and gas prices.
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The report saw upside risks of 0.5 per cent of GDP to the fiscal deficit target of 6.4 per cent of GDP for FY23
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There was something epic about Shane Warne’s life, and even its sad, hugely premature end. Cricket will not see his like again. But why is that so? Mark Sawyer dons the whites and examines the real legacy of the master bowler.
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The post An open letter to non-Indigenous people who work in Indigenous affairs appeared first on IndigenousX.
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The IPO is offer for sale (OFS) by Government of India and there will be no fresh issue of shares by LIC
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The 30-share BSE Sensex opened on a weak note and further tumbled 432.36 points
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The government was looking to sell 5 per cent stake in LIC this month, which could have fetched over Rs 60,000 crore to the exchequer
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The stocks have tumbled for the third straight day on negative cues from the global equities amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict
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The government was expecting to garner Rs 63,000 crore by selling 5 per cent stake in the life insurance firm
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International crude oil prices shot above USD 110 a barrel for the first time since mid-2014
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Besides, surging international crude prices and unabated foreign capital outflows weighed on investor sentiment
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The February mop-up was impacted by the Omicron wave that swept through the country
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The loss of momentum in GDP growth in the third quarter was mainly due to the waning of the favourable base effect
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The Play Pass feature will be rolled out across the country during the week
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Subramanian was questioned for days in Chennai before the agency decided to arrest him, the officials said
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