NEW DELHI: Blaming successive Kerala govts for their neglect of environmental factors that led to the Wayanad disaster, environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Monday said the state govt did not pay attention to “expansion of illegal human habitation and mining” in ecologically fragile areas, and kept allowing such activities over the years which led to…
NEW DELHI: Amid growing demand for a cut, if not removal, of GST on health and life insurance, government on Monday told Parliament that the levy fetched it Rs 21,256 crore during the last three financial years, with Rs 8,263 being collected during 2023-24.Responding to a Parliament question, junior minister for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said…
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad zonal unit of the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has issued a show-cause notice to a major cryptocurrency exchange, demanding Goods and Services Tax (GST) payment of Rs 722 crore. This marks the first time the DGGI has issued such a notice to a cryptocurrency firm, setting a precedent in India’s…
MEERUT: A 19-year-old kanwariya was killed and nearly half a dozen injured during a clash between two groups of ‘dak kanwariyas’ (fast-moving devotees) along a route in Baghpat district of UP. Police said the fight happened when the groups tried to win a race in reaching their village temple in Haryana first to offer holy…
PRAYAGRAJ: Allahabad high court issued an order on Monday giving ASI another week to respond to a suit seeking an archaeological survey of Agra’s Jama Masjid and the appointment of an advocate commissioner to oversee it.The plaintiffs contend that an idol of the deity Thakur Keshavdev from the Krishna Janmabhoomi shrine that was purportedly razed…
HYDERABAD: He was declared “dead” two decades ago by a court here, after he disappeared with Rs 50 lakh following a bank fraud. On Sunday, when CBI sleuths arrested him after a lengthy and coordinated operation, he was disguised as a sadhu in a village in Tamil Nadu.But this was only one of many identities…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay Calcutta high court‘s May 22 judgment quashing inclusion of 77 communities, 75 of them Muslims, in West Bengal‘s OBC list and sought details of surveys determining their social and educational backwardness and under-representation in govt jobs requiring their inclusion in the OBC list.While agreeing to examine…
Indians working and living in Bangladesh were cooped up at home Monday and glued to the news as the streets of Dhaka descended into chaos in a public uprising that they knew was brewing but didn’t expect to unravel in the manner it did.Kanika Banerjee, 80, reached Bangladesh last Saturday to stay with her son…
Sheikh Hasina‘s flight on Monday left India’s neighbour oscillating between hope and apprehension, the unbridled joy and relief experienced by the millions who hit the streets contrasting with the uncertainty about the new future expressed by those who chose to stay away from the anti-govt protests.Filmmaker Kamar Ahmad Simon was part of the Long March…
NEW DELHI: Intelligence establishment sees the hand of Pakistan‘s external intelligence agency, ISI and its Chinese patron in escalating the protests and subversion that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country.Information reaching here point to the not-so-subtle hand of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), the student wing of hardline Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh which is known for its…
