Following a backlash, both in and outside Parliament, for dipping into retirement savings of the working class, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday announced the withdrawal of the budget proposal of taxation of EPF. In view of the representations received, including from Members of Parliament, said Mr. Jaitley: “the Government would like to do comprehensive review …and therefore I […]
» Read moreThe British government is set to increase visa fees across most categories of applications from March 18, in a move that will affect thousands of Indians who were the largest group of skilled workers to be granted visas to live and work in Britain last year. The changes, proposed in January this year, mean a 2 per cent rise for […]
» Read moreNancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt and her husband’s Alzheimer’s disease, died on Sunday at age 94. The cause of death was congestive heart failure, said a spokeswoman for the Reagan presidential library. She died at her Los Angeles home. […]
» Read moreThe Enforcement Directorate has registered a money laundering case against businessman Vijay Mallya and chief financial officer of now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines on the basis of Central Bureau Investigation’s (CBI) probe into alleged wilful default of Rs.900 crore loan in conspiracy with IDBI Bank officials. In October 2015, the CBI had booked the case of corruption and criminal conspiracy against Mr. […]
» Read moreIn second such detention within a week, 31 Indian fishermen were, on Sunday, arrested by the Sri Lankan Naval personnel on the charge of fishing in the island nation’s waters, Tamil Nadu fisheries officials said. The fishermen, 22 from Tuticorin and nine from Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, were taken into custody along with their three country boats and a mechanised […]
» Read moreThe Banjara Hills police on Sunday morning arrested Ravela Susheel, son of Andhra Pradesh Social Welfare Minister Ravela Kishore Kumar Babu, on charges of outraging modesty of a woman. His driver M. Ramesh was also arrested. The duo allegedly stalked a school teacher and tried to pull her into a car at Banjara Hills on Friday afternoon. After the woman […]
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