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Nitin Gadkari seeks 10 pc additional GST on diesel vehicles as pollution tax

Nitin Gadkari seeks 10 pc additional GST on diesel vehicles as "pollution tax"

12 Sept 2023 1:00 PM IST
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday said he will seek a "pollution tax" in the form of additional GST of 10 per cent on diesel vehicles and...
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Extravagance feeding off adversities
"Thomas Manuel’s Opium Inc." | Extravagance feeding off adversities

Author: Thomas Manuel

Publisher: HarperCollins

Price: 595

Opium Inc: How A Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire’ is not just a magnum opus on opium,...

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On that frightful day
"Jallianwala Bagh" | On that frightful day

Author: VN Datta

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

Before Dyer’s arrival, eight speakers, including Abdul Aziz, Dr Gurbax Rai and Rai Ram Singh, had...

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Musicians of Mayhem
"Escaped : True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London" | Musicians of Mayhem

Author: Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 399

The rift between Nadeem and Gulshan was no secret. The cassette king and the reigning musical czars...

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An unvarnished account
"Life in American Politics & Diplomatic Years in India" | An unvarnished account

Author: Richard Celeste

Publisher: Har-Anand Publications

Price: 995

At five am on Wednesday, March 6th, 1985 my phone rang. I picked up immediately. “Governor,” Marvin...

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For a greater good
"Bike Ambulance Dada" | For a greater good

Author: Biswajit Jha

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 250

Now that Karimul had a bike, he was no longer dependent on his cycle to ferry a patient. The bike...

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First signs of trouble
"The Banker Who Crushed His Diamonds" | First signs of trouble

Author: Furquan Moharkan

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 350

In September 1957, a Punjabi family in Delhi was blessed with a baby boy—a boy who would go on to...

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Wakeup call
"Celebrating Small Victories: My Journey Through Two Decades of AIDS Response" | Wakeup call

Author: J.V.R. Prasada Rao

Publisher: Notion Press

Price: 600

The book ‘Celebrating Small Victories: My Journey Through Two Decades of AIDS Response’ traces the...

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Path-breaking decisions
"The Presidential Years: 2012-2017" | Path-breaking decisions

Author: Pranab Mukherjee

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Price: 695

The internal process of decision-making varies from government to government, and PM Modi has...

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Of light and darkness
"The Long Shadows of Life" | Of light and darkness

Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo

Publisher: HarAnand

Price: 495

The Long Shadows of Life is a collection of seventy-one poems of, an Iranian-Canadian philosopher,...

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Politics of citizenship
"ON CITIZENSHIP" | Politics of citizenship

Author: N Ram, Romila Thapar, Gautam Bhatia and Gautam Patel

Publisher: Aleph Book Company

Price: 499

India might have awakened to ‘life and freedom’ at the stroke of the midnight hour separating 14...

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Stories of steel and gunpowder
"The Maharaja of Jodhpur's Guns" | Stories of steel and gunpowder

Author: Robert Elgood

Publisher: Niyogi Books

Price: 4500

The Mehrangarh Museum Trust at Jodhpur has preserved the historic monuments and artefacts of the...

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Crisis on multiple fronts
"Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis" | Crisis on multiple fronts

Author: Arun Kumar

Publisher: Penguin

Price: 499

By mid-March, the government realized that a lockdown had become inevitable to control the spread of...

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Routine cop drama

"Spenser Confidential" | Routine cop drama

Director: Peter Berg

Star Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger

There are films that sink under the urge to be too ‘cool' with narrative structure, and Spenser...

All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

"The Marvelous Mrs Maisel 3" | All about Marvelous Ms Brosnahan

Director: Amy Sherman-Palladino

Star Cast: Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Marin Hinkle, Tony Shalhoub, Kevin Pollak

It must be the law of averages, really, how Season Three pales in comparison to Season two, which in...

A fun on the run

"Jumanji: The Next Level" | A fun on the run

Director: Jake Kasdan

Star Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart

The odd bunch is back again, in the oddest game you have known. Jumanji: The Next Level keeps things...

Royal rush returns

"The Crown Season 3" | Royal rush returns

Director: Benjamin Caron, Christian Schwochow, Jessica Hobbs & Sam Donovan

Star Cast: Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Tobias Menzies

Season three of ‘The Crown’ could well be the trickiest of all that we have seen so far, many had...

Of Shashi Tharoor’s wit and little else

"One Mic Stand" | Of Shashi Tharoor’s wit and little else

Director: Sapan Verma

Star Cast: Shashi Tharoor, Bhuvan Bam, Taapsee Pannu, Richa Chadha

Skip to episode five and watch Shashi Tharoor and Kunal Kamra’s gigs if you are in speedwatching...

Humour in a time warp

"Motichoor Chaknachoor" | Humour in a time warp

Director: Debamitra Biswal

Star Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Athiya Shetty

The biggest killjoy for a joke is a situation where you have figured out its punchline long before...

Faulty in parts

"Made In China" | Faulty in parts

Director: Mikhil Musale

Star Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Boman Irani, Mouni Roy

Made In China is symptomatic of what’s often happening in Bollywood right now. They have a concept...

An engaging sequel

"Maleficent" | An engaging sequel

Director: Joachim Ronning

Star Cast: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil is the sequel to the 2014 released, dark fantasy adventure film,...

‘Posham Pa’ doesn’t tempt us to invest in its scummy characters

"Posham Pa" | ‘Posham Pa’ doesn’t tempt us to invest in its scummy characters

Director: Suman Mukhopadhyay

Star Cast: Mahie Gill, Sayani Gupta, Ragini Khanna

It is heartbreaking to see how much Sayani Gupta and Mahie Gill have invested into their characters...

A tribute to the era of 80’s

"Pranaam" | A tribute to the era of 80’s

Director: Sanjiv Jaiswal

Star Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Sameksha Singh, Vikram Gokhle

The Eighties films in Bollywood were all about revenge and drama, when the hero-turned-villain was...

Super 30 anything but super

"Super 30" | Super 30 anything but super

Director: Vikas Bahl

Star Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Mrunal Thakur, Pankaj Tripathi

The film is a biopic of Patna-based educationist Anand Kumar (played by Hrithik Roshan), a math wiz...

A Shahid canvas

"Kabir Singh" | A Shahid canvas

Director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga

Star Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Arjun Bawa

A Hindi remake of the popular Telegu film Arjun Reddy, director Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s Kabir Singh,...

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