Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will table in Parliament a notification that will exempt credit and debit card transactions up to Rs 2,000 from the levy of service tax. The move is aimed at promoting electronic transactions following the demonetisation of high value currency notes from the midnight of November 8 onwards. Mr Jaitley on Wednesday admitted that there was a […]
» Read moreTamil Nadu’s ruling AIADMK on Wednesday said 77 persons died due to shock after hearing about the illness and later the demise of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and announced a solatium of R. 300,000 to their families. Ms Jayalalithaa died on Monday evening after suffering cardiac arrest. In a statement issued in Chennai, the AIADMK said a total of 77 […]
» Read moreThick fog engulfed the national capital this morning, leading to cancellation of two train services, while 94 others were running behind schedule “by several hours” due to poor visibility. Flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, however, were not affected in the morning, airport officials claimed. According to a MeT department official, the visibility was recorded at 400 metres […]
» Read moreA Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane, carrying 47 people, crashed on Wednesday on a domestic flight from the mountainous northern city of Chitral to Islamabad, aviation authorities said. Flight PK661 crashed near the town of Havelian in Abbottabad district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the civil aviation authority told AFP. An earlier statement from the airline said the ATR-42 turboprop aircraft […]
» Read moreTime magazine on Wednesday named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year. “It’s a great honour. It means a lot,” Mr. Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC’s “Today” show. Time editor Nancy Gibbs said on the programme that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the No. 2 finalist. Ms. Gibbs said the choice of Trump this year was “straightforward”. […]
» Read moreDMK president and former Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi was discharged from Kauvery Hospital on Wednesday night. He had been admitted on December 1 for nutritional and hydration support, a statement from the hospital said. “After medical treatment, he had improved substantially and was discharged from the hospital today. All his vital signs and biochemical parameters have normalised now. He has […]
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