Services provided by Indian information-technology (IT), marketing, and consulting companies to foreign clients may not always draw integrated goods and services tax (IGST) if a ruling by the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR s) Telangana Bench becomes a precedent.
The AAR gave its ruling on a specific case of referral services provided by the Hyderabad-based Center for International Admission and Visas (CIAV) to foreign universities and colleges for admitting Indian students.
How India’s second wave became the worst COVID-19 surge in the world
The sudden spike in cases has brought the nation s healthcare system to its knees. There are no hospital beds, no oxygen, no medicines. And then there are the variants.
ByNilanjana Bhowmick
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New DelhiDuring the past few weeks, Indian social media has been inundated with SOS messages: hospitals tweeting about dwindling oxygen supplies and physicians watching helplessly as patients perish from preventable deaths. A journalist pleading for but denied a hospital bed took to Twitter to log his deteriorating condition till he died. Overwhelmed crematoria are working
Express News Service
HYDERABAD: India has the world s second largest number of Covid-19 cases but when it comes to genome sequencing of the novel coronavirus, the country s performance is shocking.
Of the more than 1.01 crore cases reported in India, only 4,238 novel coronavirus samples or just about 0.04 percent of all cases have been sequenced till now, as per the database of novel coronavirus genomes sequenced worldwide available with the GISAID Initiative.
Even this number is not evenly spread across the country s geography. While Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu have recorded third and fourth highest number of Covid-19 cases, a meager 3 and 36 virus samples have been sequenced from these states.