Day: May 22, 2019

CBDT issues Draft Notification for Amendment of Form No 10B of the Income-tax Rules, 1962

open view news desk Section 12A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act) provides for conditions for applicability of Sections 11 and 12 of the Act. One such condition under  clause (b) of sub-section (1) thereof is that where the total income of the trust or institution computed […]

Finance Commission meets with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

open view news desk The Fifteenth Finance Commission headed by Chairman, Shri N.K. Singh today held a meeting with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on “Harnessing India’s Digital Opportunity”.  A detailed presentation on this was made by the Secretary, MeitY, Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney. It […]

Outstanding Dues of Some Ministries’ Government Accommodation Raised on Quarterly Basis and Settled Regularly

open view news desk Misleading Reporting Regarding Housing Dues of Ministers The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs clarifies that the demands for dues on account of some ministries’ outstanding dues of their government accommodation are raised on quarterly basis and are settled regularly. This refers to a […]

Envoys of three Nations present credentials to President of India

open view news desk Ambassadors of Germany, Colombia and Peru presented credentials to the President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan today (May 21, 2019). The envoys who presented their credentials were: – 1. Mr Walter Johannes Lindner, Ambassador of Germany 2. Mr […]

Polled EVMs are absolutely safe in Strongrooms

open view news desk Certain complaints of alleged movement of EVMs, purportedly to replace the polled EVMs in the strongrooms, have been doing the rounds in sections of media. Election Commission of India would like to emphatically and unambiguously clarify that all such reports and allegations are absolutely […]

Union Home Secretary Shri Rajiv Gauba calls on States for better preparedness ahead of the South West Monsoon

open view news desk The Union Home Secretary Shri Rajiv Gauba has called on the States and Union Territories to step up their preparedness by advance planning and deployment of human, physical and financial resources ahead of the monsoon season. In his inaugural address at the annual conference […]

High level Committee Submits its report; Recommends Strategy to reduce import dependency

open view news desk ‘The High-Level Committee (HLC) constitutedby the Government of India to examine the issues relating to preparation of action plan to create synergy among R&D Centres of Oil & Gas PSUs; tax issues and ways to benefit from GST by the Oil & Gas PSUs […]

Competition Commission of India (CCI) celebrates its 10th Annual Day on 20th May 2019

open view news desk The Competition Commission of India (CCI) celebrated its 10th Annual Day yesterday, i.e. on 20th May, 2019 which marks the notification of the substantive enforcement provisions of the Competition Act, 2002 On this occasion, Shri N. K. Singh, Chairman, Fifteenth Finance Commission, Govt. of India, […]

PSLV-C46 successfully launches RISAT-2B

open view news desk India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C46) today successfully launched the RISAT-2B satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh. This was the 72nd launch vehicle mission from SDSC SHAR, Sriharikota and 36th launch from the First Launch pad. PSLV-C46 lifted-off at 05:30 Hrs (IST) […]

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