The BJP Sunday stressed the need for rationalisation of taxation in India and promised reforms in this sector when it comes to power. “People here live and die under the burden of taxes,” Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said at a programme organised by yoga guru Baba Ramdev’s Bharat Swabhiman Trust. “When we […]
China has investigated as many as 36,907 officials suspected of corruption from January to November in 2013, a report said Sunday. The officials were allegedly involved in 27,236 cases, 21,848 of these being major and important, reported Xinhua citing a statement from the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. Major and important cases accounted for 80.2 percent of […]
After Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Nancy Powell, it was the turn of a celebrated school choir from the US to express regret at the ugly turn of events that led to the humiliation of an Indian diplomat, an incident that caused a major downturn in Indo-US ties at the end of last […]
The Supreme Court has said that courts must carefully examine the evidence of a rape victim to ascertain its trustworthiness as it alone was sufficient to convict a rape accused and sentence him to life imprisonment. Holding that the rape victim’s evidence is placed on such a high pedestal that it alone was sufficient to […]
Major buyers of LNG in Asia should come together to demand a fair pricing mechanism for gas being imported from outside the continent, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday. He was speaking after dedicating the Rs.4,200 crore Petronet LNG’s Kochi terminal to the nation. “Asia has been the driver of the global LNG demand in […]
Excise and taxation employees, including two senior officers, were booked, police said Saturday. Umed Singh, an assistant excise and taxation officer and Inspector Bir Singh, with other employees, were booked for negligence. “The accused were booked on the complaint filed by deputy excise and taxation officer Aruna Singh,” police officer Arvind Kumar told IANS. The […]
The Aam Aadmi Party has filed a police complaint against police personnel who had tried to coerce and threaten the family of the Bengal double gangrape victim to hand over her death certificate so her last rites could be held, a party leader said Saturday. The fledgling West Bengal unit of AAP would also bring […]
Beginning a five-day visit to India Jan 6, Bhutan’s King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Queen Jetsun Pema have been invited by President Pranab Mukherjee to stay at the renovated Dwarka suite in the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The Bhutan king, 32, an Oxford graduate, is the first foreign head of state invited to stay at the […]
Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal’s judicial remand was Saturday extended by a further 10 days by a magistrate here. Tejpal, who has spent more than a month cumulatively in police and judicial custody, was presented before a court of a judicial magistrate. His defence argued that Tejpal should be released on bail because police had not […]
US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke predicted that the US economy will fare better in coming quarters. He was addressing the annual meeting of the American Economic Association held in Philadelphia, the US state of Pennsylvania, Xinhua reported Friday. He said: “The combination of financial healing, greater balance in the housing market, less fiscal restraint, […]