NEW DELHI: New Delhi: GST Council, led by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Monday announced tax exemption for research funding for higher educational institutions and research centres established under central or state laws, as well as institutions that enjoy income tax exemption.At the meeting, the Centre proposed the change, which states accepted with West Bengal…
KOCHI: Goa governor P S Sreedharan Pillai has stoked a controversy with remarks on the decline of Christian population in the coastal state.Pillai said at an event in Ernakulam on Saturday that when he met a senior clergyman, he asked why Christian population in Goa had come down to 25% from 36%. He also said…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand director general of police (DGP), Abhinav Kumar, ordered a probe on Monday following reports of villages – like Nyalsu, Shersi, Rampur Fata and Ravigram – in Kedar valley of Rudraprayag district putting up boards barring entry of ‘outsiders’.Initially, the boards stated that ‘non-Muslims, Rohingya Muslims and hawkers’ should not be allowed in the…
KOLKATA: A 2017 report published by the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post about an Indian orthopaedic surgeon identified as Sandip Ghosh being accused of inappropriately touching a male student nurse there went viral Monday.It is unclear if the report was referring to RG Kar hospital’s ex-principal. The West Bengal Orthopaedic Association said it was…
SURAT: Surat city police arrested on Monday 27 people for allegedly protesting outside Saiyedpura police chowky and pelting stones on Sunday night. They were demanding the release of six boys who had been detained for allegedly throwing stones at a Ganesha idol in a pandal in the area.Three FIRs were filed at Lal Gate police…
NEW DELHI: Settling a vexed issue that evoked different rulings from HCs, the Supreme Court on Monday adjudged that a person, already arrested and in custody in connection with an offence, is entitled to seek anticipatory bail if he feared that the police may arrest him in another offence.A bench of Chief Justice D Y…
GUWAHATI: A 21-year-old BTech computer science and engineering (CSE) student at IIT-Guwahati, Bimlesh Kumar from UP’s Ballia district, was found hanging in his hostel room on Monday.This is the second such incident within a month and the third this year at the institute, raising serious concerns about students’ mental health and effectiveness of the support…
KANPUR/LUCKNOW: The Shivrajpur police of Kanpur Nagar district have lodged an FIR for an alleged attempt to derail and blast the Bhiwani-bound Kalindi Express (14117). The loco-engine of the train had hit an LPG filled gas cylinder placed on the rail track between Barrajpur and Utripura on the Kanpur-Kasganj route on Sunday night. A ‘petrol…
NEW DELHI: Three attempts to derail trains and two instances of pelting of stones in past week point to criminal intent of miscreants, railway ministry officials said highlighting how the “wave” of incidents has become a major cause of concern.They added that the collision of a train Sunday evening with a cooking cylinder kept on…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday dismissed a PIL by former diplomats and bureaucrats and social activists, including Jean Dreze and Harsh Mander and musician T M Krishna who sought a direction to the Centre to cancel all licences for export of arms and ammunition to Israel on the ground that the country has been indicted…
