Within a fortnight of the Finance Ministry issuing draft guidelines on GAAR, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday set up a committee to prepare fresh norms on the controversial tax provision to bring “greater clarity” and prepare a roadmap by September 30 for its implementation.
The four-member...
The Strategic Forces Command (SFC) of the Indian Army successfully launched on Friday the Agni-I missile from the Wheeler Island, off Odisha and the missile travelled its full range of 700 km.
Agni-I took off from a mobile launcher (a TATRA truck) at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at 10.06 a.m. and...
Srinagar, Jul 13: Four more pilgrims and a porter died en-route to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath in south Kashmir Himalayas since last night, taking the toll during this year’s pilgrimage to 72, officials said.
Sixty-year-old Nirmala Tripathi, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, died of cardiac arrest...
Home Minister P Chidambaram on Friday deprecated the issuing of diktats against women by a ‘khap’ panchayat in Baghpat and said that he expected the Uttar Pradesh government to take action against those who try to enforce such “illegal” orders.
“There is no place for such diktats in a democratic...
New Delhi, Jul 13: With BJP’s Presidential nominee PA Sangma campaigning hard to garner support for his candidature, it now seems that the political party – NCP, represented earlier by Sangma, has turned against him. He had quit the party following his decision to contest the Presidential...
New Delhi, Jul 12: After the exit of Pranab Mukherjee from the Council of Ministers, Defence Minister AK Antony seems to have got the number two position in the government. Indication to this effect came as Antony was allocated the seat next to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the Cabinet meeting here.
Antony...
Hyderabad, Jul 13: With the Presidential poll campaign heating up every passing day, both contenders are knocking the doors of regional parties to successfully swing votes in their favour. Recent reports suggest that YSR Congress headed by YS Jaganmohan Reddy has decided to vote in favour of UPA’s...
A ruling BJP MLA in Karnataka was on Friday chargesheeted by the Lokayukta police in an alleged land grabbing case.
The chargesheet against Dasarahalli MLA S Muniraju and two others was filed in the Lokayukta court in Bangalore.
The MLA, accused of grabbing the over one acre land assigned by the government...
