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More public schools dish up 3 meals a day
Too often it is after the fact that teachers discover their students are worrying less about math and reading and more about where the next meal comes from.So Doug White, principal of Garfield Elementary School in inner-city Kansas City, was relieved when his school, like many across the country, began offering dinner to students enrolled in after-school child-care or tutoring programs.With breakfast

Dems, GOP look to play offense after payroll fight

Bruised from the payroll tax cut brawl, congressional Republicans want to change the subject and push legislation they say would create jobs by promoting transportation and energy projects,

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Vinayak Chatterjee: Seven infra expectations from Budget 2012

Coming as it does at the beginning of the 12th Plan, and given the downbeat mood, there is genuine expectation from Budget 2012-13 that there will be far more action-orientation and policy-setting

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Negative list is no plus for GST

A proposal to introduce a list of categories to be exempted from the service tax is likely to be announced in the upcoming Budget, but it may fail to give a push to the long-pending Goods and Services

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Controlled foreign firms: Is this last resort?

The Union Budget 2012 is expected to introduce Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) provisions. The intent is to tax passive income earned by a foreign company even if it is not repatriated or

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A uniform tax regime would help us scale up much faster

India is set to be an economic powerhouse. We have talent, world-class education and a growing breed of entrepreneurs that’s set to put the country on the world map. While already benefiting

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