Presently, the GST system has four tax tiers of 5, 12, 18, and 28 percent. (AI image) New GST tax rates soon! Come this Diwali, you will have to pay much lower indirect taxes on several items of daily use, thanks to next-generation Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms set to be unveiled by the…
The men’s basketball selection committee had an easy job at the top of the bracket this year. The 2025 NCAA Tournament might have the best collection of No. 1 seeds in March Madness history. By the numbers, it is the best, at least in college basketball’s advanced analytics era, which dates to 1997, when Ken…
There’s not too much shame in a botched March Madness bracket. The NCAA Tournament is compressed chaos in single elimination, upsets are part of the game, and only one entrant can actually win it all. What we can’t forgive is a lazy, uninspired bracket name. The men’s and women’s tournaments give us a wealth of…
(Editor’s note: This article is part of the Bracket Central series, an inside look at the run-up to the men’s & women’s NCAA Tournaments, along with analysis and picks during the tournaments.) Drake’s in, so we can dispense with the arguments about whether Ben McCollum’s Bulldogs would have made the field of 68 without winning the Missouri Valley…
Who will win the first 12-team College Football Playoff? Six teams received at least one vote in our survey of 30 college football writers and editors at The Athletic, a big change from 10 years of postseason tournaments in which only four teams were in the field. Though Oregon got a majority of the votes, plenty…
Who will win the first 12-team College Football Playoff national championship? I believe there are six teams that have the personnel, savvy and leadership to make a run and win it all, handling top competition as the margin for error gets smaller and the spotlight gets so much brighter. I love so many of these…
And now, 20 Final Thoughts from college football’s Week 12, where no one won bigger than Indiana’s Curt Cignetti. He got a $64 million contract on his week off. 1. Preseason No. 1 Georgia faced the prospect of missing the College Football Playoff entirely if it suffered its third loss of the season on Saturday…