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New Delhi: On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, Change.org, the world’s largest platform for social change, launches its website in Hindi, in a move designed to “open up the digital campaigning space to crores of Indian citizens. “https://www.change.org/,https://www.change.org/hindi — links are active from Friday night. Preethi Herman, country lead of Change.org India’s, said: “Launching Change.org Hindi on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth […]

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 […]

Google 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. […]

Five 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 […]

Soon 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 […]