As we brace for unprecedented rates of urbanisation, it is crucial to ensure that illegal constructions and unauthorised land use are curbed, asserts Amit Kapoor. IMAGE: National Disaster Response......
The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre to produce within three weeks the original records relating to its decision to block a 2023 two-part BBC documentary series on the 2002 Gujarat riots.......
'Crores of rupees have been spent on paper but nothing has actually happened on the ground.' IMAGE: A resident of Sant Dnyaneshwar Nagar in Thane's Kopri Pachpakkhadi area applies tilak on Kedar......
The Delhi high court asked Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy and Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi to file a short note on the submissions in the National Herald case.......
The Gujarat high court on Monday said it does not have faith in the state machinery which gets into action only after innocent lives are lost, as it pulled up the Rajkot civic body over the......
The Direct Taxes Code, which will replace the Income Tax Act, 1961, is unlikely to be implemented from the next financial year as planned earlier.Unfazed, the finance ministry is considering......
The implementation of the Direct Taxes Code appears set to miss its deadline once again. The Direct Taxes Code Bill, introduced in Parliament on August 30 last year, proposes to replace the......
The 48-year-old Indian Income Tax Act is set to be replaced by a new Direct Tax Code from April 1, 2011. The ball is already in play. A draft of the new Direct Tax Code has been released by the......
The salaried class will be broadly happy with the revised direct taxes code (DTC), but the harsher provisions for investments in stocks and mutual funds could temper the enthusiasm. The revised......
The finance minister could improve the quality of public spending, which could mean placing greater emphasis on capital expenditure and a closer review of revenue spending, such as subsidies, to......