Hefty fines imposed on traffic violations under the new Motor Vehicle (MV) Act has finally snowballed into a major showdown between state governments and the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MORTH). The disagreement over the fines between state government and MORTH has now reached the office of Attorney General K.K. Venugopal, Indian government’s […]
Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly feels Lokesh Rahul will be kept on his toes by Shreyas Iyer and Manish Pandey for the no. 4 slot in ODIs, a position which has been debated a lot by the team management over the last couple of years. Iyer was preferred over Rahul in the three ODIs against […]
Actress Yami Gautam will be going back to her hometown in Himachal Pradesh to explore new methods of organic farming to minimalise the use of fertilisers and medicines. “I will head to the farm post the shoot of ‘Ginny Weds Sunny’. The produce this year in our land which we bought last year was really […]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a US lawmaker’s call to break his company, saying he’s not going to sell WhatsApp or Instagram at any cost. Senator Josh Hawley (Missouri Republican) tweeted that he met Zuckerberg during his visit to Washington, DC on Thursday, and asked him to sell Instagram and WhatsApp. “Just finished meeting […]
At least one person was killed and five others were injured in a shooting that took place about 3 km from the White House here, police said. The incident took place at around 10 p.m. on Thursday night in the Columbia Road Northwest neighbourhood. Police Commander Stuart Emerman told reporters at the scene that no […]
In a major bonanza for corporates as part of measures to promote growth and investment, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday announced to slash corporate tax rate to 22 per cent for domestic companies and 15 per cent for new domestic manufacturing companies, besides other fiscal reliefs. The effective tax rate for these companies would […]
The Supreme Court has upheld the order passed by Customs, Excise, and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal and set aside the orders passed by the High Courts of Delhi and Madras in a case pertaining to appeal on excise duty refunds by ITC Limited. In a judgement passed on September 18, a bench headed by Justice […]
Erstwhile McDonald’s India partner Vikram Bakshi has been barred by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal from leaving the country. Bakshi is facing the heat on multiple fronts as a Tis Hazari court has summoned him on October 11 for fraud and conspiracy in a complaint filed by Montreaux Resorts. A division Bench of NCLAT […]
Union Home Minister Amit Shahs thrust on use of Hindi threatened to snowball into a major controversy, before he clarified that he never wanted to impose the language on other regional languages, pacifying the critics, mainly in southern states like Tamil Nadu. Political parties in states like Tamil Nadu and Karnataka were up in arms […]
In a major breakthrough, Indian intelligence agencies have busted a “call centre” being run by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan in Jhelum city, 116 km from Islamabad. The call centre, a major counter-intelligence hub of ISI, aimed at targeting the Indian Army and government officials in honey-traps, was being operated with the help of […]