NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Centre cannot impose service tax on sale of lotteries as the lottery business comes under the State List.A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N K Singh said service tax was not leviable on transactions between the purchaser of lottery tickets and the state govt…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha member from Baramulla, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, who is out on parole from Tihar jail to attend the budget session, on Tuesday demanded a “full investigation” into the recent death of two civilians in Jammu and Kashmir.Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Rashid, also known as Engineer Rashid, an Independent member from…
BENGALURU: Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal AP Singh has said his confidence in defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) continues to erode over its failure to fix delays in delivery and upgrades to the light combat aircraft Tejas.“You have to alleviate (our) worries and make us more confident. At the mom-ent, I am…
NEW DELHI: Fourteen candidates scored 100 percentile or 100 NTA score in the Joint Entrance Examination – Main (JEE-Main) 2025 January session, against 23 candidates in 2024 and 20 in 2023. Out of the 14 top scorers, 12 are from general category and one each from OBC and SC categories. There is also one woman…
NEW DELHI: Total 544 convicts on death row are lodged across the country’s prisons as on December 31, 2022, home ministry informed Lok Sabha Tuesday. Replying to a question by TMC MP Adhikari Deepak Dev, junior home minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said NCRB data show maximum convicts handed capital punishment are lodged in jails of…
NEW DELHI: When PM Narendra Modi visits Marseille, the second largest city in France and home to a famous port, he will be connecting not just with the valour of Indian soldiers who fought on the side of the British in World War I but also an important episode in the life of nationalist and…
NEW DELHI: Law enforcement agencies across the country seized narcotics worth around Rs 25,330 crore in 2024. This represents a significant increase of over 55% compared to the Rs 16,100 crore seized in 2023, analysis of official data shows.The success is attributed to the ‘bottom to top’ and ‘top to bottom’ approach adopted by PM…
GUWAHATI: Manipur was buzzing Tuesday about the possibility of Raj Bhavan breaking the political status quo after an NDA delegation led by BJP’s Northeast minder Sambit Patra trooped to governor AK Bhalla with what many hoped was a breakthrough in the search for a successor to caretaker CM N Biren Singh.BJP’s state president A Sharda…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s stop at Cadarache, the home of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) site on Wednesday, is seen as a significant step in harnessing nuclear energy for global good. The visit reinforces India’s position as an important partner in the global endeavour to develop clean nuclear fusion energy, official sources…
NEW DELHI: India now seems to be reviving its case for the procurement of six more advanced P-8I long-range maritime patrol and submarine-hunting aircraft from the US, which was put on hold around three years ago.Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s summit with President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, government sources told TOI the…
