GEM OF AN IDEA! by SANJAY B JUMAANI

GEM OF AN IDEA! by SANJAY B JUMAANI

It is customary to wear new clothes, buy gold during the festive season to appease ones respective planets {Grahas}; one can do so by wearing their Lucky colors, for increasing the magnetic attraction. Or can even invest in their lucky gems, or birth stones, what with Gold prices so stagnant! Sounds like a Gem of […]

Foreign firms with no India set-up exempt from minimum tax

Foreign firms with no India set-up exempt from minimum tax

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with US investors, India on Thursday gave a major tax concession to foreign companies that don’t have a permanent set-up in India but operate out of countries with which New Delhi has double tax avoidance treaties. Technically, the ministry of finance has decided to amend the Income Tax […]

With Dalmiya, the era of giants over (Tribute)

With Dalmiya, the era of giants over (Tribute)

Can’t remember the exact date and place of meeting Jagmohan Dalmiya for the first time, but it was sometime in 1979 when he and his close friend Inderjit Singh Bindra were seen as the new kids on the block on the cricket scene. The two had shaken the then khalifas of Indian cricket who had […]

Restored Ashoka Stupa in China symbolises India’s propagation of Buddhism

Restored Ashoka Stupa in China symbolises India’s propagation of Buddhism

Radiant in its grandeur and serene in its effect, a newly inaugurated restored Ashoka Stupa in this remote Himalayan town close to Tibet symbolises the missionary zeal of Indians to spread the message of Buddhism since the ancient ages. Beckoning tourists and pilgrims alike, the dome-shaped shrine, whose complex includes a newly-installed giant 35 metre […]

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