(TOI) The income tax department is “aggressively” pursuing names that emerged in the Panama Papers+ , including Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan+ , and has dispatched a top-level officer to the British Virgin Islandsto access information, a senior official has said. The British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean is considered to be among several tax havens. The tax department has launched 33 prosecutions linked to the names revealed in the Panama Papers and is probing others. “There is no let-up in investigations. We are aggressively seeking information from other countries,” the official, who did not wish to be identified, told TOI. After Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif was…
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(AU) जनता दल(यूनाइटेड) दो फाड़ होती दिख रही है। बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री नीतीश कुमार ने अपने वरिष्ठ सहयोगी और जेडीयू के अध्यक्ष रह चुके शरद यादव को राज्यसभा पार्लियामेंट्री पार्टी के लीडर पोस्ट से क्या हटाया, अब शरद यादव पूरी पार्टी पर ही दावा जताने की ओर बढ़ रहे हैं। शरद यादव के करीबी अरुण श्रीवास्तव ने दावा किया है कि शरद यादव के साथ देश के 14 राज्यों के अध्यक्ष हैं, साथ ही पार्टी के दो राज्यसभा सांसद। यही नहीं, पार्टी के ऑफिस बैरियर के लोग भी शरद यादव के साथ हैं और शरद जल्द ही चुनाव आयोग में दावा ठोककर अपने…
(FE) The news on the Ujjwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) is a mixed bag. On the positive side, the financial metrics of state power distribution companies (discoms) improved in nine months of FY17, with their interest cost burden falling to 8.5%, as against 13% earlier. However, sustaining this performance would be a challenge in FY18 when UDAY’s incentives are no longer in place. The bottomline is that discoms have to improve on their operational parameters if the scheme’s benefits are to be sustained over the long term. “Steps that culminate in the reduction of AT&C (Aggregate Technical & Commercial) losses,…
(AU) उत्तराखंड में बादल फटने की वजह से कैलाश मानसरोवर यात्रा बीच में ही रोक दी गई है। हादसे में 4 सैनिक और 3 नागरिक लापता बताए जा रहे हैं। मालपा क्षेत्र में तीन शवों को बरामद किया गया है। न्यूज एजेंसी एएनआई के मुताबिक, चार जवान और तीन नागरिक मंगती नाला में लापता हैं। वहीं तीन शवों को बरामद कर लिया गया है। हादसे के बाद राहत और बचाव का काम जारी है।मंगती में दो और सिमखोला में एक ब्रिज क्षतिग्रस्त है। बादल फटने की वजह से नदी खतरे के निशान के आसपास बह रही है जिसके चलते हालात बाढ़ जैसे हो गए हैं।
(TH) PwC, JM Financial and ICICI Securities are among the five consultants vying to become transaction adviser to the government’s over Rs. 33,000 crore stake sale in Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd HPCL to ONGC. EY and Rothschild (India) Pvt Ltd are the other two who have submitted expression of interest (EoI) to the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management’s (DIPAM) invitation to professional consulting firms and investment/merchant bankers for managing the disinvestment process, official sources said. DIPAM is looking to appoint one adviser for the strategic sale as also a law firm with experience and expertise in mergers and acquisitions or takeovers…
Today Shri Dharmendra Pradhan ji, Shri Ratan Tata ji, Shri Nitin Gadkari ji, Shri Devendra Fadnavis ji and Shri Piyush Goyal ji inaugurated the of Phase 1 of National Cancer Institute at Nagpur . National Cancer Institute at Nagpur will be one of the most modern & largest of its kind & provide quality cancer care at affordable cost. Prevalence of cancer is alarmingly increasing in India making it difficult for existing hospitals to cope up with the increased patient load.
(PTI) State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) has bought the country’s first shale oil from the US and is looking to step up imports from America as part of its crude diversification strategy. IOC bought 1.9 million barrels of US crude in its second import tender seeking oil from the Americas, company Director (Finance) A K Sharma told PTI here. India, the world’s third-largest oil importer, joins Asian countries like South Korea, Japan and China to buy US crude after production cuts by OPEC drove up prices of Middle East heavy-sour crude, or grades with a high sulphur content. IOC had…
(FE) Gorakhpur children tragedy LIVE updates: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath today visited the BRD medical college along with Union health minister JP Nadda. Meanwhile, the Opposition parties have joined hands against the Bharatiya Janata Party and state chief minister Yogi Adityanath over the deaths of infants in Gorakhpur, mostly at the BRD Medical College. Congress demanded an apology from the CM while Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav accused the government of concealing facts regarding circumstances that led to the tragedy. The former state chief minister and BSP supremo Mayawati demanded the resignation of the state health minister Sidharth Nath Singh. Meanwhile, the principal…
(FE) Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday spoke to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the flood-like situation in the state and assured that the Centre is rushing additional National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams to provide relief. “Spoke to Bihar CM @NitishKumar and discussed the flood situation in the state. The NDRF teams have already reached the affected areas. The Centre is rushing additional NDRF teams to Bihar to help the ongoing rescue &relief operations in the flood affected region of the state,” Singh tweeted. Following the relentless rain in Nepal, now Bihar is under a threat of facing the…
(PTI) Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has invited Bihar chief minister and Janata Dal (United) president Nitish Kumar to join the ruling NDA, following the latter’s alliance with the saffron party in the state to form a new government. “I met JD(U) president Nitish Kumar at my residence yesterday. I invited JD(U) to join the NDA,” Shah said in a tweet today. The Bihar-based party is expected to endorse a proposal to join the the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in its national executive meeting in Patna on 19 August, after which it is likely to join the Narendra Modi…