India defers GAAR by a year (Lead)
May 7th, 2012 - 8:18 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) India Monday deferred impementation of the controversial General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR) by a year and announced that the burden of proving tax evasion will ... Read more...
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Lions of Khorasan are roaring again
December 11th, 2011 - 7:38 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 11 (IANS) Afghanistan, blighted by decades of violence and fundamentalist opposition to modern sports, is - unbeknownst to the outside world - emerging as a football ... Read more...
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Over 1,000 non-residents allowed to buy land in Himachal
August 25th, 2011 - 6:26 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Aug 25 (IANS) More than 1,000 people who are not residents of Himachal Pradesh have been allowed by the state government to purchase land in the state in the ... Read more...
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Cricket World Cup gets Rs.45 crore tax relief
March 31st, 2011 - 8:53 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has landed a Rs.45 crore ($10 million) bonanza with the Indian cabinet Thursday exempting the income earned during the ... Read more...
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Cabinet approves tax exemption for ICC WC 2011
March 31st, 2011 - 8:21 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Mar 31 (ANI): The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved tax exemption for the 2011 ICC World Cup.The cabinet today approved the proposal of Ministry of Finance for exempting ICC Cricket ... Read more...
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Post-budget, NRIs have to spend more in India (Comment)
March 6th, 2011 - 1:54 pm ICT by IANS
Non-residents Indians (NRIs) will have to spend a little more on their visits to India after the latest budget. As the air travel tax has gone up, NRIs now pay more ... Read more...
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Authorities urge non-resident Keralites to enrol for voting
March 2nd, 2011 - 7:28 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, March 2 (IANS) Non-resident Keralities (NRK) who want to cast their votes in the upcoming assembly elections April 13 will have to get their names enrolled in the state's ... Read more...
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Problems in NRI voting rights being worked out: Vayalar Ravi
January 23rd, 2011 - 5:39 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 23 (IANS) Practical problems are being worked out to enroll non-residents Indians (NRIs), specially in the Middle East, on the electoral rolls, Minister for Overseas Indian Affairs Vayalar Ravi said ... Read more...
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Tripura appoints new information commissioners
January 14th, 2011 - 4:20 pm ICT by IANS
Agartala, Jan 14 (IANS) The Tripura government Friday made new appointments to the state's Information Commission constituted under the Right to Information (RTI) Act. But the move was rejected by the main ... Read more...
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Indian tax authorities ask Vodafone to pay over Rs.112 bn (Lead)
October 22nd, 2010 - 8:51 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Indian tax authorities Friday asked global mobile firm Vodafone to pay over Rs.112 billion (around $2.53 billion) as tax in the 2007 purchase of Hutchinson Whampoa's mobile ... Read more...
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Indian tax authorities ask Vodafone to pay over Rs.112 bn
October 22nd, 2010 - 8:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Indian tax authorities Friday asked global mobile firm Vodafone to pay over Rs.112 billion (around $2.53 billion) as tax in the 2007 purchase of Hutchinson Whampoa's mobile ... Read more...
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Vodafone files petition against tax authorities move
October 15th, 2010 - 6:36 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) Telecom service provider Vodafone Friday said it has filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against the Indian tax department's move to classify it as an ... Read more...
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Priyanka Vadra’s land deal figures in Himachal house
August 23rd, 2010 - 9:19 pm ICT by IANS
Shimla, Aug 23 (IANS) Two years after a land deal allegedly in the name of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka Vadra rocked the Himachal Pradesh assembly, a ruling Bharatiya Janata ... Read more...
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Goa to strengthen ties with diaspora
August 1st, 2010 - 9:57 am ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) Goa is following in the footsteps of Kerala to engage with its non-residents who make up at least one-third of the state's 1.5 million population and contribute ... Read more...
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Controversial women’s rights bill returns to Kashmir assembly
February 22nd, 2010 - 3:48 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Feb 22 (IANS) The controversial bill that seeks to annul permanent resident rights of Kashmiri women who marry outside the state is set to return to the Jammu and Kashmir ... Read more...
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More tax deduction for those without permanent account number
January 20th, 2010 - 8:29 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Tax at source will be deducted at the highest level on income accruing to people without permanent account numbers, following a new notification Wednesday that takes effect ... Read more...
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New tax regime should last 50 years: Finance minister
November 5th, 2009 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) The government Thursday said it would bring in the new direct tax code only after consulting and reviewing suggestions from taxpayers and the corporate sector to ... Read more...
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New direct tax regime from 2011: Mukherjee
October 9th, 2009 - 4:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Friday said a new direct tax regime with rationalised rates and simplified procedures will take effect 2011, even as the government was ... Read more...
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India’s realty industry sees homecoming of non-residents
June 14th, 2009 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
By Anuradha Shukla
New Delhi, June 14 (IANS) The Indian realty industry has reason to cheer. After a yearlong gloom, non-residents have started looking at the residential market in the country again, especially ... Read more...
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‘Deposits with Kerala cooperative banks to beat slowdown’
April 24th, 2009 - 4:57 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, April 24 (IANS) State Cooperation Minister G. Sudhakaran Friday said the total deposits in the 1,614 cooperative banks in Kerala would keep increasing despite the slowdown and touch Rs.50,000 crore by ... Read more...
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Madonna’s adoption hope still alive
April 14th, 2009 - 1:43 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 14 (IANS) Pop diva Madonna hasn't given up hope on adopting Malawian child Mercy James and says she wants to provide the four-year-old with the best of everything.
"I want ... Read more...
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Malawi court turns down Madonna’s second adoption
April 3rd, 2009 - 5:01 pm ICT by IANS
Lilongwe, April 3 (DPA) A Malawian court Friday turned down US popstar Madonna's attempt to adopt a second child from the impoverished southern African country.
A judge in the High Court in ... Read more...
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Second World Punjabi meet brings together 400 delegates
March 17th, 2009 - 10:58 pm ICT by ANI
By Sunil Sharma Chandigarh, March 17 (ANI): A two-day World Punjabi conference to discuss pertinent issues related to propagation of Punjabi language and culture was hosted here. Over participation of 400 ... Read more...
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Documentary on real assisted suicide airs on British TV tonight
December 10th, 2008 - 11:58 am ICT by ANI
London, December 10 (ANI): A documentary showing a retired university professor being actually helped by a Swiss euthanasia group to end his own life will be telecast for the first time ... Read more...
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RBI cuts CRR by 1 percent, releases additional Rs 40,000 cr
October 15th, 2008 - 9:26 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Oct 15 (ANI): The Reserve Bank of India has further cut by one percent, the amount of mandatory cash that banks need to park with it - a move ... Read more...
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Three rights activists barred from Hong Kong
August 7th, 2008 - 5:38 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Hong Kong, Aug 7 (DPA) Three human rights activists have been denied entry into Hong Kong just days before the start of the Olympic Games, a media report said Thursday. The move, ... Read more...
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Wives deserted by NRIs to get financial aid
July 17th, 2008 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANS
Chandigarh, July 17 (IANS) Help is now at hand for the wives abandoned by Punjabi non-residents Indians. The central government is extending financial aid to them so that they can fight their ... Read more...
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Kerala to set up Malayalam Mission for diaspora
June 18th, 2008 - 8:26 pm ICT by IANS
Thiruvananthapuram, June 18 (IANS) The Kerala government Wednesday accepted an expert committee report on setting up of an autonomous body, Malayalam Mission, to reach out to the Malayali diaspora. Chief Minister V.S. ... Read more...
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Real estate business flourishes in Hyderabad
June 17th, 2008 - 3:40 pm ICT by ANI
Hyderabad, June 17 (ANI): With the rejection by Andhra voters of the Telengana Rashtra Samiti, real estate business is now picking up again in Hyderabad after the recent elections.
The non-residents of ... Read more...
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Madonna, husband get full adoption of Malawi boy
May 28th, 2008 - 11:36 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Lilongwe (Malawi), May 28 (DPA) US pop star Madonna and her husband British filmmaker Guy Ritchie were granted the right to permanently adopt toddler David Banda by a court in his native ... Read more...
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Dusk to dawn curfew in Jammu border villages
May 13th, 2008 - 10:26 pm ICT by admin
Jammu, May 13 (IANS) A dusk-to-dawn curfew has been imposed on all villages along the 187-km India-Pakistan international border in the Jammu region to check infiltration following gun battles with militants over ... Read more...
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