NEW DELHI: Industry lobby groups CII and PHDCCI have demanded personal tax benefits for the middle class, with Ficci backing a simplification in the direct tax regime in the budget.During a meeting with revenue secretary Sanjay Malhotra, CII president Sanjiv Puri pitched for marginal relief in tax for taxable income up to Rs 20 lakh,…
NEW DELHI: Fitch Ratings on Tuesday raised India’s growth forecast for the current fiscal to 7.2%, from 7% projected in March, saying elevated consumer confidence will drive spending, besides increased investments.In June update to its global economic outlook report, Fitch said it expects inflation to decline to 4.5% by end of this year and RBI…
MUMBAI: A 29-year-old man killed his 22-year-old girlfriend, who he suspected was cheating on him, with a wrench on a busy road in Vasai on Tuesday morning. As the victim lay still on the road, passersby simply looked on or captured videos of the crime but none stepped in to help her.In one of the…
MUMBAI: A preliminary roadmap has been prepared by the BJP for the upcoming assembly elections in Maharashtra, said deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in New Delhi on Tuesday after the state core committee held a meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah and BJP national president J P Nadda at the party headquarters.Newly-appointed observers for Maharashtra…
New Delhi: Observing that even 0.001% negligence in conducting NEET-UG must be examined thoroughly, Supreme Court on Tuesday said Centre and National Testing Agency (NTA) should admit if there had been any mistake in organising the test and rectify it, instead of denying it.As allegations of mismanagement and question paper leak marred the medical entrance…
New Delhi: Issuing hoax threats to flights, airports or any aviation-sector related facility could soon land pranksters on the no-fly list for five years.Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) DG Zulfiquar Hasan Tuesday said the rising number of such incidents had prompted the agency to propose the action against those found guilty on this count….
VARANASI: BJP-led NDA being voted to office for a third consecutive term in a country with millions of aspirational youth and other people chasing their dreams is no small feat and reflects a mandate earned through 10 years of governance, PM Modi said Tuesday at his first rally since the poll verdict. Modi transferred Rs…
NEW DELHI: Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) is in talks with aviation ministry to set up a unique museum to display, besides air travel journey, how the aviation sector has learnt from past mistakes to make flying safer. “AAIB proposes to set up its investigation facility at a wide body hangar by leasing the same…
SHIMLA: Congress on Tuesday named Himachal Pradesh chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife Kamlesh Thakur as its choice for Dehra assembly bypoll against BJP‘s Hoshyar Singh.A notification issued by AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had approved the candidature of Kamlesh from Dehra after she reportedly emerged as the…
GUWAHATI: Assam home and political secretary Shiladitya Chetia, a 44-year-old IPS officer with a President’s gallantry medal to his name, fatally shot himself in the head with his service weapon in the ICU of a private hospital in Guwahati Tuesday, minutes after his wife died there of cancer.Chetia’s wife Agamoni Borbaruah, 40, died at Nemcare…
