MUMBAI: In a significant ruling, the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal’s (ITAT) Mumbai bench has held that a gift of Rs 20 lakh received by a taxpayer from his non-resident brother, based in the UAE, is not subject to tax. This judgement underscores that Indian tax laws exempt certain gifts from being taxed, particularly those received from…
An Ahmedabad civil court dismissed a suit filed by a Hindu man seeking declaration that his Muslim brother was not entitled to a share in their parents’ property because he had converted to Islam and was disinherited by their parents.The case involved Kamal Sathwara and his younger brother, Julesh alias Junaid Sathwara, who converted to…
An Ahmedabad civil court dismissed a suit filed by a Hindu man seeking declaration that his Muslim brother was not entitled to a share in their parents’ property because he had converted to Islam and was disinherited by their parents.The case involved Kamal Sathwara and his younger brother, Julesh alias Junaid Sathwara, who converted to…
NEW DELHI: Amid growing convergence on strategic issues, particularly the common agenda of ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific, India and Japan are in talks to revise and update the joint declaration on security cooperation they signed in 2008. The third India-Japan 2+2 foreign and defence industrial meeting on Tuesday will look to carry forward…
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Monday told the Supreme Court that Parliament was compelled to enact a law in 2019 to make Muslim men who instantaneously divorce their wives through ‘triple talaq‘ liable to imprisonment as the SC’s 2017 ruling declaring it unconstitutional did not prove to be a deterrent against such unilateral sudden…
Report of 3-member panel of retired HC judge K Hema, star Sharadha and retired IAS officer K B Valsala Kumari was released following a HC observation THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Justice Hema Committee report paints a sordid picture of humiliating “compromises” that women are forced to make to survive in Malayalam film industry, including being subjected to ‘casting…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Justice Hema Committee report paints a sordid picture of humiliating “compromises” that women are forced to make to survive in Malayalam film industry, including being subjected to ‘casting couch‘ – having to dole out sexual favours to industry’s high and mighty or risking a premature end to careers. It shows that disparity in remuneration…
BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court Monday asked a special court hearing private complaints against CM Siddaramaiah in the alleged Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) site allotment controversy, to defer its proceedings and not to take any precipitative action till the next date of hearing on August 29.Justice M Nagaprasanna passed this interim order after the…
NEW DELHI: General Sundararajan Padmanabhan, who was the Army chief during the massive forward troop deployment on the western front with Pakistan under Operation Parakram, passed away in Chennai on Sunday night. He was 83.Widely regarded as a straight-talking cerebral officer, affectionately called “Paddy” in defence circles, Gen Padmanabhan had publicly rubbished Pakistan’s nuclear sabre-rattling…
Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin with defence minister Rajnath Singh CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin on Monday rubbished claims of opposition parties that DMK would tie up with BJP. Stalin, however, was all praise for Union defence minister Rajnath Singh, who released a commemorative coin to mark late DMK leader M Karunanidhi’s…
