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SC stays govt’s decision to raise import duty on sugar
- On April 17, the Cabinet had hiked customs duty on sugar imports to 30 pc
Kathmandu, May 14
The Supreme Court today stayed the government’s decision to levy additional 15 per cent customs duty on sugar imported by Gyan Enterprises Sajhedari Firm from Pakistan.
The order was passed by a single bench of Justice Bam Kumar Shrestha in response to a writ petition filed by Naresh Dugar of Dugar Group, against the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Ministry of Finance, Rani Customs Office and others.
On April 17, the Cabinet had decided to increase the customs duty on sugar imports to 30 per cent from 15 per cent ‘to facilitate sugarcane farmers and sugar mill operators’ amid increasing flow of cheaper imported sugar in the domestic market.
The Supreme Court stated in its order that the stay order would remain in effect till May 28, when the court will decide further on the matter after hearing arguments of both parties.
The apex court also issued a show cause notice to the defendants. It stated that it was issuing a stay order because the petitioner had opened letter of credit (LC) and had purchased sugar before the government decided to hike customs duty on the import of sugar.
Petitioner Naresh Dugar stated in his petition that he had imported 5,200 metric tonnes sugar from Mirpurkhas Sugar Mills Ltd of Pakistan between February 28 and April 15, the shipment of which had already reached Biratnagar Customs Office. The petitioner said he had already paid customs duty for 5,200 metric tonnes sugar and the customs office had already checked the shipment of 4,628 metric tonnes.
He added that out of 5,200 metric tonnes of sugar that he had imported from Pakistan, 572 tonnes was still at Biratnagar Customs Office. The petitioner said some shipments of the imported sugar were at Kolkata port while other shipments had already left Kolkata port for Biratnagar.
The petitioner said that on April 18, Biratnagar Customs Office told him to pay a 30 per cent customs duty as per government’s decision that came into effect on April 17.
The petitioner argued that he had opened LCs before March 23 for importing sugar from Pakistan and had completed all the processes of the trade before the government hiked import duty. The petitioner said the government enforced new import duty with retroactive effect which was against legal provisions and principle of justice. The petitioner added that the government’s decision was against its prior promises and legitimate expectation. He argued that only the Parliament could change the laws.
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Everton set to let Sam Allardyce go and target Marco Silva as successor
• Portuguese was preferred candidate back in October
• Board to meet about Allardyce and Rooney in midweek
Sam Allardyce is set to leave Everton this week with the former Watford and Hull City manager Marco Silva a leading candidate to replace him.
Allardyce is scheduled to meet Everton’s major shareholder, Farhad Moshiri, in the coming days and his departure is expected to be announced by the end of the week. Allardyce is six months into the 18-month contract he secured in November and oversaw an eighth-place finish in the Premier League. But fierce opposition to his management style among the club’s supporters, allied to the hierarchy’s desire for a fresh start following a dreadful season, is likely to result in the 63-year-old leaving with a final year’s pay-off of around £6m.
Continue reading…Are we in danger of being seduced by a Tiger Woods fairytale? | Ewan Murray
Woods has performed brilliantly simply to be competitive again but his shortcomings are obvious
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Woods’ latest outing at the Players Championship had him finish seven –almost two shots per round – adrift of the winner Webb Simpson. The 42-year-old tied 55th the previous weekend in Charlotte, 32nd at the Masters and trailed the victorious Rory McIlroy by eight at the conclusion of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
Continue reading…Hundred tournament is a definite starter, claims ECB chairman Colin Graves
• Only the 10-ball over is up for debate
• Not what we were told last week, retorts PCA
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Colin Graves, the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has insisted its new 100-ball tournament will definitely go ahead in 2020 and is needed because the younger generation is “just not attracted” to the sport in its current guises.
The ECB had appeared to be softening on the introduction of a fourth format during its conversations with the Professional Cricketers’ Association last week, telling the union it was “not set in stone” and just a “concept” following player concerns over the new eight-team competition’s move away from Twenty20.
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Fiji’s gold-winning sevens coach at Rio 2016 reflects on the band of brothers he forged into a successful team and how they landed the country’s first ever Olympic medal
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This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/14/fiji-olympic-final-sevens-rugby-union-coach-ben-ryan-gold-medal-coach under the title “Ben Ryan: ‘I’ve been more nervous than the Olympic final often’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article. “I much preferred Fiji – even with a dictator in charge, a boss who was convicted for manslaughter, my phone being bugged, the bankruptcy and black magic – than my last year at the RFU,” says Ben Ryan, as he sips on a double espresso and reminisces about an extraordinary journey that culminated in him guiding Fiji’s sevens side to Olympic gold in Rio.
We are in a cafe not far from Twickenham, where Ryan worked for six years as the England sevens coach before falling foul of what he calls the Rugby Football Union’s “machiavellian” struggles for power and influence, “with people above you who can only be trusted never to be trustworthy”.
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Silverstone organisers quiet over the British Grand Prix’s future and Williams identify the root cause of their difficulties
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