ナレンドラ ダモダルダス モディ नरेन्द्र दामोदरदास मोदी Narendra Damodardas Modi 1950 9 17生 18代インド首相 前グジャラート州首相
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the virtual SCO Summit on Friday. PTIRezaul H Laskar
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New Delhi : The world community must decide collectively on recognising the new regime in Kabul in view of questions about its legitimacy because the change of power in Afghanistan was “not inclusive” and done “without negotiation”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday.
In his virtual address to a joint meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) and Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) that was convened in Dushanbe to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, Modi said the international community must ensure Afghan soil is not used to spread terrorism.
He called on SCO members to develop “strict and common norms” based on the principle of zero tolerance towards terror to counter any terrorism emanating from Afghanistan’s territory. The norms should include a code of conduct to prevent cross-border terror and terror financing and a system for their enforcement, he added.
Earlier in the day, Modi said in another virtual address, this one to the SCO Summit, that the developments in Afghanistan highlighted challenges faced by the region, including the impact of growing radicalisation on peace and security.
India has watched warily since the Taliban took over Afghanistan on August 15 following the collapse of the Ashraf Ghani government. The establishment of a hardline setup by the Taliban that includes several key members of the Haqqani Network and the presence in Afghanistan of thousands of fighters from Pakistan-based groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) are among India’s key security concerns.
Along with its partners, India has called for the creation of an inclusive government in Afghanistan that protects the rights of women and minorities. India has also insisted Afghan soil must not be used to plan or carry out terror attacks against other countries. Modi reiterated these concerns in his address to the SCO-CSTO meeting.
Modi listed four issues that he said should be the focus of regional cooperation on Afghanistan – the new regime put in place in Kabul, the spread of terrorist and extremist ideologies if instability continues in Afghanistan, the possibility of the uncontrolled flow of drugs, illegal weapons and human trafficking, and the serious humanitarian crisis in the war-torn country.
He said that the “change of power in Afghanistan was not inclusive and has taken place without negotiation”, and that this raises “questions about the acceptability of the new regime”. The representation of all sections of Afghan society, including women and minorities, is important, he said. “Therefore, it is essential that the world community decides on the recognition of the new regime in a thoughtful and collective manner. India supports the central role of the UN on this issue,” Modi said, speaking in Hindi.
Modi warned that continued “instability and fundamentalism” in Afghanistan would lead to the spread of terrorist and extremist ideologies around the world, and that “other extremist groups may be encouraged to seek power through violence”.
All countries must work together to ensure that Afghan soil isn’t used to spread terrorism in any country, and SCO members should develop “strict and common norms” on this issue based on zero tolerance for terrorism, he said. These norms, which should include a code of conduct to prevent cross-border terror and terror financing, could become a template for global anti-terror cooperation.
SCO’s Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) mechanism can help monitor any flow of drugs, illegal weapons and human trafficking from Afghanistan. “A large amount of advanced weapons remain in Afghanistan. Due to these, there will be a risk of instability in the entire region,” Modi said.
“From this month, India is presiding over the council of [RATS]. We have developed proposals for practical cooperation on this topic,” he said.
All countries must work together to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Afghanistan, which is facing a serious humanitarian crisis, Modi said. People have been hit by the interruption of financial and trade flows and the Covid-19 pandemic, and India stands ready to deliver food and medicines to “our Afghan friends”, he added.
In his address to the SCO Summit, Modi also said the grouping should develop a joint approach to fight radicalisation and extremism, and called for developing a network between moderate, tolerant and inclusive Islamic institutions in the member states.
“The 20th anniversary of SCO is a suitable occasion to think about the future of the SCO. I believe the biggest challenges in this region are related to peace, security and trust deficit and the root cause of these problems is increasing radicalisation,” Modi said, speaking in Hindi.
“Recent developments in Afghanistan have made this challenge more apparent. The SCO should take an initiative on this issue,” he said, recalling Central Asia’s historic role as a “bastion of moderate and progressive cultures and values”.
Modi also welcomed Iran as a new member state of SCO, and Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar as new dialogue partners, saying the expansion reflects the grouping’s growing influence.
The current members of SCO are China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan. Afghanistan, Belarus and Mongolia have observer status with SCO, while dialogue partners include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Turkey.
Modi addressed both the meetings in Dushanbe virtually while external affairs minister S Jaishankar participated in person and held meetings with several leaders.
包括的ではないAfパワー変化：SCOへのモディ
Narendraモディ総理大臣は金曜日にバーチャルなSCOサミットにアドレスする。PTI
Rezaul H Laskar
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ニューデリー：世界コミュニティは、その合法性についての問題を考慮して、カブールの新しい政権を認めていると集合的に決めなければならない。なぜなら、アフガニスタンのパワーの変化は、「包括的ではない」、およびされた「交渉なしでの」であったからであると、Narendraモディ総理大臣は金曜日に言った。
上海協力組織（SCO）との共同の会への彼の仮想アドレス、およびアフガニスタンの状況を議論するためにドウシャンベで召集されたロシア導かれた集団安全保障条約組織（CSTO）では、モディは、国際的なコミュニティが、テロを広めるためにアフガニスタンの土が使用されないことを保証しなければならないと言った。
彼は、アフガニスタンの領域から出ているどのようなテロにでも対抗するために、0の寛容さという主義のため恐怖に基づいて「厳密なおよび共通のノルマ」を開発するのをSCOメンバーに求めた。ノルマは、国境を越える恐怖およびそれらの強制のための恐怖資金提供とシステムを防止するために、指導のコードを含むべきであると、彼は付け加えた。
より早く日に、別の仮想アドレス、このものにおいてモディがSCOサミットに言った 成長急進化の平和とセキュリティへのインパクトを含み、アフガニスタンでの開発により、領域が直面している挑戦が強調された。
Ashraf Ghani政府の崩壊に続いている8月15日にタリバンがアフガニスタンを引き継いで以来、インドは用心深く見る。ラシュカー・イ・タイバ（賃貸）やJaish-e-モハメッド（JeM）などのパキスタンベースのグループからHaqqaniネットワークのいくつかの主要メンバーと存在を数千機の戦闘機のアフガニスタンに含めているタリバンによる強硬なセットアップの設立が、インドのキーセキュリティ懸念の間にある。
そのパートナーとともに、インドは、女性と少数民族の権利を保護するアフガニスタンの包括的な政府の作成を要求した。インドは、計画を立てるか、または他の国への恐怖攻撃を実行するためにアフガニスタンの土を使用してはならないことも強く主張した。モディは、彼のアドレスにおいてこれらの懸念をSCO-CSTOミーティングに繰り返した。
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Rajeev Jayaswal
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New Delhi : The apex federal body on indirect tax matters, the Goods and Service Tax (GST) Council, on Friday considered bringing petrol, diesel, natural gas and aviation turbine fuel (ATF) within the ambit of GST, but decided against it on revenue considerations.
Briefing the media about the Council’s decisions, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: “It was brought on to the table for discussion. Members spoke very clearly that they wouldn’t want it to be included in the GST.”
She said Council took up the matter as per the directive of the Kerala High Court, and the court will be informed of its decision.
The council, however, reduced tax rates on key Covid-19-related medicines — Itolizumab, Posaconazole, Infliximab, Favipiravir, Casirivimab, Imdevimab, Deoxy-D-Glucose, Bamlanivimab, Etesevimab, and extended duty exemption on other Covid-related drugs: Amphotericin B, Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, and anti-coagulants such as Heparin. The reductions and the extensions of the past reduction will last till December 31.
The Council also readjusted duty on several items, including tax exemption on goods supplied at Indo-Bangladesh border ‘haats’ (market). HT reported the plans to do so on Thursday.
The Council also decided that online food delivery platforms such as Swiggy and Zomato will collect tax on food items from the consumers for ease of tax administration as GST is a levy on consumption. The move will, however, not impact the end consumer, revenue secretary Tarun Bajaj said.
Sitharaman said the Council decided to exempt GST on import of muscular atrophy drugs like Zolgensma and Viltepso for personal use from 12% to zero as these medicines cost crores of rupees.
While tax concessions on Covid-related drugs have been extended by three months, the exemptions given previously on related medical equipment will end on September 30.
As a result of the tax rejig, consumers will get relief on retro fitment kits for vehicles used by the differently-abled. Fortified rice kernels supplied in welfare schemes will also become cheaper.
GST on medicine keytruda, used in treatment of cancer, has been reduced from 12% to 5%, and tax on biodiesel supplied to oil marketing companies for blending with diesel has been reduced from 12% to 5%.
Import of leased aircraft has also been exempted from payment of integrated GST (IGST). IGST is levied on inter-state transfer of goods and services and it is shared between the Centre and the state. All imports are treated as inter-state supplies and accordingly IGST is levied on them in addition to the applicable custom duties.
Tax rationalisation, mainly undertaken to correct duty anomalies so that manufacturers get full input tax credit, made few items costlier.
They are -- ores and concentrates of metals such as iron, copper, aluminium and zinc as they have been moved from 5% slab to 18%.
Specified renewable energy devices and parts will now attract 12% GST instead of 5%.
Items such as cartons, boxes, bags, packing containers of paper currently attracting 12-18% will now be put in 18% tax bracket.
GST on waste and scrap of polyurethanes and other plastics, all kinds of pens, railway parts, locomotives and miscellaneous goods of paper like cards, catalogue, printed material are now shifted from 12% to 18% slab, according to an official statement.
Sitharaman said the Council also decided to correct long-pending issue of inverted duty structure suffered by footwear and textiles sectors.
“GST rate changes in order to correct inverted duty structure, in footwear and textiles sector, as was discussed in earlier GST council meeting and was deferred for an appropriate time, will be implemented with effect from January 1, 2022,” she said.
Briefing the Council’s decision Sitharaman said while the statutory five-year period for compensating states for their revenue losses would end on June 30, 2022, the government would continue compensation cess till April 2026 to service principal and interests on money already borrowed to compensate states.
At the time of introducing the new indirect tax regime, the GST law assured state governments a 14% increase in their annual tax revenue for five years and the Centre committed to meeting any shortfall in revenue through the cess levied on luxury goods and sin products such as liquor, cigarettes, aerated water, automobiles, coal and other tobacco commodities.
The government raised money from market in 2020-21 and 2021-22 to compensate states for shortfall in the protected revenue as compensation cess was inadequate due to devastation impact of Covid-19 pandemic on businesses.
The decision on including fuel in GST has been most widely watched since these products hit record highs in the past year with the centre and states raising their levies on it, as a measure to make up for the revenue lost due to the pandemic.
As a result, central and state levies on petrol and diesel are over 50% of their retail prices.
Santosh Dalvi, partner and deputy head of indirect tax at KPMG India said, “Amidst revenue concerns expressed by states, the decision to defer inclusion of petroleum products within the ambit of GST will affect petroleum industry and consumers with continual cascading of taxes.”
“The big decision to extend the period of GST Compensation Cess till March 2026 in order to service borrowed principal and interest will affect sectors suffering from such cess which expected relief after five years,” he said.
MS Mani, senior director at consulting firm Deloitte India said, “The multiple rate changes announced indicates that the GST Council is willing to alter rates in cases where the rates are leading to an inverted duty structure or where there are other valid reasons for changing the rates.”
“While food delivery services would constitute e-commerce services, sufficient safeguards need to be taken in subjecting them to GST to ensure that smaller food outlets are protected and consumers do not end up paying more,” he said.
Kristalina Georgieva. AP FILEZia Haq
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NEW DELHI : The World Bank Group has junked, due to irregularities, its “Doing Business Reports”, after an external investigation showed senior former bank leaders including then World Bank chief executive Kristalina Georgieva had been working with economists to upgrade China’s 2018 ranking.
According to the Doing Business 2018 report, China had a score of 65.3 with a global ranking of 78, the same notch as the previous year’s.
If adjusted for parameters such as Starting a Business and (ease in) Getting Credit, China’s ease of doing business score would have fallen that year to 64.5, translating to a global ranking of 85, a later World Bank review showed. “Taking as given the published data for all other countries, China’s global ranking in Doing Business 2018 would have been 85, a decline of 7 places relative to the previous year,” the Bank’s review states.
The rankings have acquired the status of a prestige tag for emerging economies and become a key influencer of wide-ranging policies. They purport to show which countries are most welcoming of private investment and business.
The action came after an external investigation’s findings that the rankings could be manipulated. The investigation implicated Georgieva, who is now managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the global lender of last resort, and former World Bank president Jim Yong Kim. Georgieva has denied wrongdoing, saying in statement on Friday: “I disagree fundamentally with the findings and interpretations... ”
The rankings have set in motion far-reaching economic policies that focus on winding down red tape and easing regulations to facilitate quicker investments, setting off global competition to reach the top.
“After data irregularities on Doing Business 2018 and 2020 were reported internally in June 2020, World Bank management paused the next Doing Business report and initiated a a series of reviews and audits of the report and its methodology,” the World Bank Group said in a statement on Thursday.
The trust countries repose in the Doing Business Report and its rankings is critical for policymaking in many developing nations to bring down poverty levels and push income-generating investment, acting on the bank’s advice.
The World Bank Group further said: “Going forward, we will be working on a new approach to assessing the business and investment climate. We are deeply grateful to the efforts of the many staff members who have worked diligently to advance the business climate agenda, and we look forward to harnessing their energies and abilities in new ways.”
The World Bank’s board said its current executive directors authorised the release of “Investigation of Data Irregularities in Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 – Investigation Findings and Report to the Board of Executive Directors”.
This is an independent external review of the “facts and circumstances around previously reported data irregularities in the 2018 and 2020 Doing Business Reports,” the bank said. This investigation’s findings released by the bank showed senior officials may have manipulated rankings.
Among 190 countries, India ranked 63rd in Doing Business in 2020. A 63rd rank meant India has improved its ranking by 79 positions in the five years between 2014 and 2019.
“This (World) Bank publishes these data, but how seriously it is to be taken depends on countries. Nobody enforces them. This government has given it utmost importance than most previous governments as have many other comparable countries,” noted economist Abhijit Sen said.
The then World Bank president Jim Yong Kim too has been implicated by the investigation. “For instance, President Kim discussed the report and China’s performance with senior Chinese government officials on September 12; the then executive director for China met with members of the Bank’s East Asia and Pacific regional office on September 14 to inform them that if China’s rankings improved within ‘everyone would be relieved’,” the investigation stated.
“It was against that backdrop that the data irregularities pertaining to China occurred,” the probe said.
According to the investigation, during the 2020 Doing Business Report, at the direction of a senior World Bank Group official, Saudi Arabia’s ranking was upgraded, displacing Jordan. “In August 2019, the Doing Business team generated a draft of its Top Improvers list for Doing Business 2020 that had Jordan as the top reformer with Saudi Arabia placing second,” it states. The places of the two countries changed in the final report. “The following month, September 2019, Mr Djankov -- by then serving as the DEC director -- instructed the Doing Business team to find a way to alter the data such that Jordan fell from its first-place position in the Top Improvers List”.
Simeon Djankov was one of the founders of the Doing Business Report, who at the time was serving as the adviser to Georgieva
世界銀行がビジネスリポートのその容易を捨てた理由
Kristalina Georgieva。APファイル
ジアハク
zia.haq@ htlive.com
ニューデリー：世界銀行グループは、不規則性のためその「ビジネスリポートをする」を捨てられていて持ち、中国の2018ランキングをアップグレードするために、外部の調査により、その時世界銀行取締役会長Kristalina Georgievaを含む年長の以前銀行リーダーが示された後に、エコノミストと働いていた。
行ないビジネス2018リポートによると、中国は、78のグローバルなランキングを持つ65.3、前の年のものと同じノッチのスコアを持っていた。
もしビジネス（中の容易）と獲得クレジットを始めるなどのパラメータのために調整されるならば、ビジネススコアをすることの中国の容易は、その年に64に低下したであろう。5 85のグローバルなランキング、示された後の方の世界銀行レビューに翻訳する 。「すべての他の国のための出版されたデータが与えられるように取り、行ないビジネス2018の中国のグローバルなランキングは85であったであろう、前の年と関連する7つの場所の低下、銀行のレビュー州。
ランキングは出現経済のための一流のタグのステータスを取得し、広範囲にわたる方針のキー影響を及ぼす人になった。それらは、どの国が私的な投資とビジネスのほとんどの歓迎であるかを示すのを称する。
行動により外部の調査の発見が追いかけられて、ランキングは処理できた。調査巻き込まれたGeorgieva〈現在国際通貨基金の常務取締役である〉 最後のリゾートのグローバルな貸方 、および元の世界銀行大統領ジムヤングキ
The man the US and its allies hoped would be a moderate voice in Afghanistan’s Taliban government has been sidelined after a dramatic shootout in the presidential palace in Kabul, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s most public face who led peace talks with the US, was physically attacked by a leader of the Haqqani Network in early September during talks at the palace over forming the cabinet, the people said. Baradar had pushed for an “inclusive” cabinet that included non-Taliban leaders and minorities, which would be more acceptable to the rest of the world, the people said. At one point, Khalil ul Rahman Haqqani rose from his chair and began punching the Taliban leader. Their bodyguards then opened fire on each other, killing and wounding a number of them, the people said. Baradar was not injured but has since left the capital for Kandahar to speak with Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada. P19
New Zealand pulled out of their cricket series against Pakistan on Friday over security concerns just as the first one-day international was due to start, in a devastating blow to the South Asian country. The move is a massive setback to Pakistan, which has been trying to revive tours by foreign sides after home internationals were suspended in the aftermath of a 2009 terror attack on the Sri Lankan side. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said New Zealand made the decision unilaterally. “Walking out of the tour by taking a unilateral approach on a security threat is very frustrating. Especially when it’s not shared!!” tweeted PCB chairman Ramiz Raja. The PCB chief indicated the matter would be taken to the International Cricket Council and said: “Which world is NZ living in?? NZ will hear us at ICC.” P23
The world’s biggest trees were being wrapped in fire-proof blankets Thursday in an effort to protect them from huge blazes tearing through the drought-stricken western US. A grove of ancient sequoias, including the 83m General Sherman Tree -- the largest in the world -- were getting aluminum cladding to fend off the flames. Firefighters were also clearing brush and pre-positioning engines among the 2,000 ancient trees in California’s Sequoia National Park, incident commanders said. “We just really want to do everything we can to protect these 2,000- and 3,000-year-old trees,” said park resource manager Christy Brigham. Millions of acres of California’s forests have burned in this year’s ferocious fire season. Scientists say man-made global warming is behind the years-long drought and rising temperatures that have left the region highly vulnerable to wildfires. AFP
The Telangana high court on Friday ordered a judicial inquiry into the death of a 30-year-old man who was suspected of raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in Hyderabad last week. The court has sought a report on the inquiry within four weeks. The body of the man was found on railway tracks in Jangaon district on Thursday morning. Telangana police called it a case of suicide, but the family members of the accused alleged he was killed by police. At the hearing, Telangana state civil liberties committee secretary G Laxman raised serious concerns over the accused’s death. The statesaid there was enough evidence to prove that the man died by suicide, including eyewitnesses. Amidst protests, state minister Ch Malla Reddy said earlier this week an “encounter” should be carried out. htc
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ム。Georgievaは悪事を否定し、金曜日にステートメントにおいて言う：「私は発見と解釈に根本的に異論を唱える… "
ランキングは、赤いテープを下げて、より迅速な投資を容易にするように規則を弱めることを中心に行う動作遠大経済政策に設定し、トップに到着するために、グローバルな競争を爆発させる。
「2020年6月に内部で行ないビジネス2018と2020のデータ不規則性が報告された後に、世界銀行管理は休止し 次の行ないビジネスリポート 、a aの一連のレビュー、およびリポートおよびその方法の監査を開始した」と、世界銀行グループは木曜日にステートメントにおいて言った。
行ないビジネスリポートおよびそのランキングでの信頼国休息は、銀行のアドバイスに作用するので、貧乏レ
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