Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) West Bengal’s major industry bodies Friday welcomed the state budget saying the proposals on tax revision, especially Value Added Tax, would facilitate the growth of small scale industries. “The state budget has further introduced a slew of measures to simplify and reform the taxation system which would stimulate the business and […]
Mumbai, Feb 26 (IANS) Ahead of Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu’s maiden budget, stocks of companies associated with the public transporter were volatile in Thursday’s pre-afternoon trade session. Stocks of companies like Texmaco Rail and Engineering, Transformers and Rectifiers (India), Kalindee Rail Nirman (Engineers) and Stone India were trading in the red. However, healthy gains were […]
New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Two officials from the environment ministry and the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) were arrested in connection with the official documents leak, police said Thursday. Delhi Police have arrested Jatinder Nagpal, who is personal assistant to the joint secretary in the ministry of environment, forests and climate change. Nagpal was […]
Mumbai, Feb 25 Gangster Abu Salem was slapped with life imprisonment for killing Mumbai builder Pradeep Jain in March 1995 by a court here Wednesday. Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said that besides Salem, his associate and co-accused Mehndi Hasan, was also given life imprisonment in the sensational case. Extradited from Portugal 10 years ago, […]
Mumbai, Feb 25 A benchmark index of the Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading up 200 points or 0.69 percent during Wednesday’s afternoon session. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) also made gains during the afternoon trade session. It was trading up 59.85 points or 0.68 percent […]
New Delhi/Nairobi, Feb 24 Environmentalist R.K. Pachauri Tuesday stepped down as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following charges of sexual harassment. Pachauri has denied the accusation. Pachauri, who is also the director-general of New Delhi-based environment think-tank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), has taken “leave” from the post. In his […]
New Delhi, Feb 23 Ahead of the budget session, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi took “leave of absence” to reflect on a series of electoral defeats and deliberate on the future course of the 125-year-old party, top sources said here Monday. “Rahul Gandhi has been granted leave of absence for ‘aap chintan, aap manthan’ (introspection),” […]
New Delhi, Feb 23 President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said Digital India programme would prepare the country for technology-based transformation. “My government has envisioned an ambitious umbrella programme, Digital India, to prepare the country for technology-based transformation and citizen centric transparent governance with service orientation,” he said, addressing a joint session of both the houses of […]
New Delhi/Chennai, Feb 22 (IANS) India secured the freedom of aid worker Father Alexis Premkumar Antonysamy, eight months after he was kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday expressed happiness at the release and spoke to Father Alexis. Alexis, who arrived in New Delhi from Afghanistan, thanked the government. “I want […]
Bhopal, Feb 22 (IANS) The toll due to swine flu in Madhya Pradesh has risen to 102, officials said Sunday. The figure was revealed by state health department officials to a central government team that is on a visit to various states to access the situation following the outbreak of the contagious H1N1 viral disease. […]