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Direct Tax collections up 13% in April-D...

Direct Tax collections up 13% in April-Dec

Gross direct tax collections – including tax on personal and corporate incomes – from April to December of financial year 2014-15 are up by 12.93 per cent at Rs. 5,46,661 crore as against Rs. 4,84,063 crore collected during the same period in 2014. The rate of growth of the collections is just... read more »

Reserve Bank modifies ECB policy

Reserve Bank modifies ECB policy

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday relaxed norms for the External Commercial Borrowing (ECBs) by allowing banks and companies to restructure and reschedule the existing borrowings. The modification to the ECB policy will come into force with immediate effect. “The RBI allowed changes /... read more »

Jaitley hints at not raising tax rates; ...

Jaitley hints at not raising tax rates; sops for manufacturing

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has hinted at not raising tax rates and providing incentives for manufacturing in the coming Budget while asserting that ‘structural changes’ will have to be made to get the economy to 8-9 per cent growth. Hard selling India to global investors at the World... read more »

TVS Srichakra to launch radial tyres

TVS Srichakra to launch radial tyres

TVS Srichakra Ltd., a well-known maker of two-wheeler, three-wheeler and off-road tyres, will be launching radial tyres for motorcycles soon. Unveiling the company’s new identity and logo — TVS TYRES — here on Friday, P. Vijayaraghavan, Director of the company, said the new logo conveyed... read more »

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Successful Mars mission helps ISRO end year on high note

First trajectory correction manouevre of Mangalyaan successful: I...

Bangalore – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists on Wednesday said that the first trajectory correction manoeuvre of the maiden interplanetary mission to Mars had been carried... read more »

SC has failed to recognize protected right to privacy,non-discrimination: HRW on Section 377

SC has failed to recognize protected right to priv...

New Delhi- The Supreme Court, by reversing the 2009 Delhi High Court ruling that decriminalized same-sex conduct between consenting adults, has... read more »

India-EU free trade agreement stuck: British minister

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Chennai – Discussions on the European Union (EU)-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA) are stuck. There have been difficulties in concluding it and India is... read more »

Government says it is sincereon Lokpal bill

Government says it is sincereon Lokpal bill

New Delhi – The government is taking “sincere steps” to pass the Lokpal bill but the opposition is not letting parliament to function,... read more »

MiG-21 FL flies into air force history

MiG-21 FL flies into air force history

Kalaikunda (West Bengal) – Two pairs of MiG-21 FLs – India’s first supersonic jet – took off with a deafening roar from the runway of... read more »

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Now, Osama doc Shakeel Afridi booked in murder case for unauthorized surgery

Now, Osama doc Shakeel Afridi booked in murder case for unauthori...

Islamabad – Pakistan’s Khyber Agency has registered a murder case against Dr Shakeel Afridi, who helped U.S. in tracking slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden to his hideout in Abbottabad,... read more »

China allegedly withholds residence visas for NYT, Bloomberg reporters

Chinese SC bans police from torturing suspects to ...

London – Chinese Supreme Court has ruled officials in the country to stop torturing suspects for them to make confessions. On its official... read more »

Hamid Karzai likely to defer signing U.S. security deal...

US hopes India will persuade 'friend' Karzai on troops stay post-2014

Washington – Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has decided to defer signing the security deal with the United States until after the April 5... read more »

Women rescued from UK house after 30 years

Women rescued from UK house after 30 years

Three women enslaved for 30 years have been rescued from a house in London including one who has spent her entire life in domestic servitude, police said on... read more »

After 11 Years in Prison, Michael C. Skakel Goes Free o...

After 11 Years in Prison, Michael C. Skakel Goes Free on Bail

STAMFORD — After spending more than a decade behind bars for the murder of a teenage girl in Greenwich, Conn., Michael C. Skakel, a cousin of the Kennedys,... read more »

The diminishing returns of a college education

Foreign degree holders better skilled for jobs

Functioning in an increasingly globalised environment, many companies feel that foreign degree holders have better technical skills for jobs compared to Indian university graduates, says a... read more »

Winter special: 5 fruits you must have to boost immunity

High-fruit diets can worsen depression

The consumption of a diet high in fructose throughout adolescence can worsen depressive and anxiety-like behaviour and alter how the brain responds to stress, the findings... read more »

Nepal bus crash death toll rises to 47 as more bodies found

Emergency workers found three bodies immediately after the crash in mountainous Jajarkot district on Thursday, and pulled another 44 from the wreckage of the bus over the... read more »

John Kerry arrives in Middle East to fix ties

Iran nuclear deal: With deadline looming, US tells Iran to consider extending talks

The U.S. told Iran on Sunday that it’s time to consider extending nuclear talks, in the first formal recognition by Washington that frenzied last-minute diplomacy may not be enough to... read more »

Kenya Says It Has Killed Around 100 al-Shabaab Fighters

Extremists hit in retaliation for the slaying of 28 travelers on Saturday Kenya says it has killed around 100 al-Shabaab militants after pursuing them into Somalian territory. The deaths are in... read more »