Short of committing to an April 1, 2017 deadline, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday signalled much progress in a pan-India goods and service tax regime, thanks to an okay from all states save one, while rejecting demands for specifying the tax rate in the bill itself. After a meeting of the Empowered Group of […]
Stung by the surprise defeat of party-backed candidate R.K. Anand in the Haryana Rajya Sabha polls, the Congress on Monday demanded an independent probe into the June 11 elections, saying there was a “criminal conspiracy involved” and also demanded the poll be countermanded. The Congress also demanded that if the “pen” used for the balloting […]
Alleging that the Rajya Sabha polls in Haryana on June 11 were rigged under a “deep-rooted conspiracy”, the Congress on Monday asked the Election Commission to “countermand” the elections and order re-polling. A delegation led by Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar on Monday met the EC and submitted a memorandum to underline how the elections […]
The Goa Police on Friday charge-sheeted Ramesh Tawadkar, Sports Minister in the Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government, and seven others in a 2009 rioting case at a wildlife sanctuary in South Goa. The chargesheet was filed at Canacona Judicial Magistrate’s court under sections 143, 147, 451, 353, 224 and 225 read with Section 149 of […]
Jill Hennessy, State Member for Altona District, this week announced the opening of four veterans grant programs that will provide support for local commemorative, education and welfare projects that support, commemorate and educate the community about the service of our veterans. Three of the grant programs open for applications as of 6th June 2016 are: […]
Key Indian equity market indices opened flat on Thursday taking a negative global cues. The sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE, which had closed at 27,020.66 on Wednesday, opened lower at 26,994.48. Minutes after, it was trading at 26,947.79 points, lower 72.87 points, or 0.27 per cent. At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the broader […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday hinted that some measures are likely to further empower state-run banks legally in dealing with the rising bad loans. “Various suggestions have come up for empowering the banks, functioning in an environment, so that they can deal with the situation (bad loans). The government is fully committed to support […]
The army said on Sunday that all its ammunition depots in Jammu and Kashmir are safe as regular safety audits of these installations are carried out. Reacting to some media reports that raised questions over the safety of the army’s ammunition depots in the state, Colonel S.D. Goswami, spokesman of the army’s Udhampur headquartered Northern […]
Three BSF troopers were killed and 10 other persons, among them civilians, were injured — three critically — on Friday in a Hizb-ul-Mujhadeen attack on a security forces convoy in south Kashmir’s Bijbehara town, police sources said. A police official here in Srinagar told IANS that “a BSF convoy coming from Jammu to Srinagar was […]
Tang Media Partners has acquired a majority stake in IM Global, the film and TV studio of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Entertainment. Tang Media and IM Global have also tied up with Asian internet giant Tencent for a new TV production joint venture, the companies said. The partnership includes a dedicated TV production investment and provides […]