The government on Thursday extended the deadline for the filing of tax returns that were due on September 30, 2015 by a month to October 31, 2015. “The issue of extension of last date for e-filing returns of income and audit reports… due by 30th September, 2015 has been the subject matter of litigation in various High Courts across the […]
» Read moreThe Income Tax Department on Wednesday conducted surprise searches at the houses and offices of actors Vijay, Nayanthara, Samantha and several others. The IT department raided 35 places in Chennai, Madurai, Cochin, Trivandrum, Hyderabad from 7am onwards on Wednesday. Raids were being conducted at Vijay’s resort and residence, Nayanthara’s residence and Samantha’s residence, and the Puli producer’s house and his […]
» Read moreGoogle chief executive officer (CEO) Sunder Pichai’s father-in-law, Olaram Haryani, remarried at the age of 70 here on Tuesday. Mr Olaram, a widower, married 65-year-old Madhuri Sharma, a resident of Civil Lines area in Kota city. Ms Sharma is a widow of a military man. Mr Olaram, a retired employee of a Government Polytechnic College in Kota, lives in Mumbai. […]
» Read moreFive people were sentenced to death today for planting bombs on Mumbai’s local trains in July 2006, which killed 189 people and left over 800 injured. Seven of 12 men convicted for the train blasts have been given a life term. The convicts were found guilty of terrorist activities and mass murder earlier this month. The prosecution had asked for […]
» Read moreSoon after reduction in repo rate by the Reserve Bank, country’s largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday slashed minimum lending or base rate by 0.4 per cent to 9.3 per cent, setting the trend for benign interest rate regime. With the reduction in the base rate, all loans, including home, auto and corporate, would become cheaper by […]
» Read moreThe stock market rallied nearly 300 points from early lows soon after RBI governor Raghuram Rajan announced a 50-basis-point, that is half a percentage point cut in policy rate that is expected to have an impact in bringing down the rate of interest in the economy but then dipped in the red soon after. Within minutes of the announcement, the […]
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