Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad on Friday said she was prevented from delivering a lecture at the premier Indian Institute of Science as the administration cancelled the meeting at the last......
India has the capacity to store vaccines that may require a lower temperature in the range of -15 to -20 degrees Celsius and there are over 29,000 cold chain points (CCPs) across the country where......
The decision has come as a relief to two lakh students from Delhi, NCR and Haryana, who would have appeared for the re-examination, if it was to be conducted. The Human Resource Development......
In a major boost to the country's rapid airlift capability for forward operations and troop deployment, the Indian Air Force has re-activated its strategic Advanced Landing Grounds (of......
The government on Monday announced that it will introduce grading system in all Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools and make Class X board exams optional from coming academic year......
The First Budget of the new Government should aim at restoring domestic savings rate (to at least 35 per cent of GDP in a phased manner) by encouraging domestic financial savings in the economy......
Millions of "input" tax credits are taken every day by manufactures and traders under the Cenvat Credit Rules for the purpose of paying and adjusting duty.Now, the very concept of input is in......
There are so many exemptions that one sometimes finds overlapping exemptions and two exemptions for the same item with slightly different nomenclature and conditions, says Sukumar Mukhopadhyay. The......
The great nappy tax debate in the European Union has all the elements of a battle royal. Some of the finest legal brains of the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, have already spent......
A highly regressive amendment has taken place quietly in the Union Budget 2005-06. Quietly because it has gone practically unnoticed. It is the amendment of Section 5A of the Central Excise Act,......