Following are the major highlights of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India’s Judgement on Aadhar PAN Linkage: The Hon’ble Supreme Court of India in its Landmark Judgement has upheld Section139AA of the Income Tax Act,1961 as constitutionally valid which required quoting of the Aadhaar number in applying for PAN as well as for filing of income tax returns. The Hon’ble Court also held that the “Parliament was fully competent to enact Section 139AA of the Act and its authority to make this law was not diluted by the orders of this Court.”Therefore, no violation of the earlier Supreme Court orders were found in…
Author: Aruna Sharma
Furthering the agenda for cooperative federalism, NITI Aayog has launched SATH, a program providing ‘Sustainable Action for Transforming Human capital’ with the State Governments. The vision of the program is to initiate transformation in the education and health sectors. The program addresses the need expressed by many states for technical support from NITI . SATH aims to identify and build three future ‘role model’ states for health systems. NITI will work in close collaboration with their state machinery to design a robust roadmap of intervention, develop a program governance structure, set up monitoring and tracking mechanisms, hand-hold state institutions through…
(PTI) Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari today raised awareness about sanitation through a radio campaign interacting with residents of south Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar. Seeking to connect residents directly to their ward councillors for raising civic issues, FM channel Radio City has launched a 20-day outreach programme wherein, people can ask questions to them on air or face-to-face. The campaign — ‘City ka Darbar’ — is aimed at bringing the city together by giving citizens an easy access to elected representatives, to raise local issues, like solid waste management and water logging, and find solutions. Tiwari said the campaign will serve as a…
(DJ) लगातार दूसरे दिन दिल्ली के सर्राफा बाजार में सोने की कीमतों में गिरावट देखने को मिली है। सोने की कीमतें 175 रुपये गिरकर 29425 रुपये प्रति 10 ग्राम हो गई है। कीमतों में गिरावट की वजह कमजोर वैश्विक संकेत और स्थानीय ज्वैलर्स की ओर से घटी मांग है।सोने की तरह चांदी में भी कीमतों में गिरावट देखने क मिली है। 625 रुपये की गिरावट के बाद चांदी की भाव 40125 रुपये प्रति किलोग्राम हो गई है। व्यापारियों का मानना है कि कमजोर वैश्विक संकेत और स्थानीय ज्वैलर्स की ओर से घटी मांग को देखते हुए सोने की कीमतों में…
(PTI) The Army on Friday killed six militants near the Line of Control (LoC) as it foiled fifth infiltration bid from Pakistan into Kashmir in three days, raising to 12 the total number of infiltrators gunned down during this period. The six militants were killed in Uri sector during a counter-infiltration operation launched on Friday after the troops detected movement of ultras trying to sneak into the valley, an Army official said With this operation, the total number of infiltrating militants killed over the last three days in various sectors has gone up to 12. A defence spokesman had on Thursday…
(Tribune) Parliamentary Affairs Minister Prakash Pant today cited the ongoing Char Dham yatra and incomplete construction work as the reasons behind the Trivendra Singh government’s decision not to hold the Budget session at Gairsain.Pant said, “It was not practical to take the entire establishment to Gairsain for conducting the proceedings of the House when the Char Dham yatra was already on,” he said in his reply to the Opposition’s charge of dishonouring the resolution on holding the Budget session in Gairsain, passed last year, when the Congress government was in power.Pant raised doubts over the intentions of the previous Congress…
(FE) Finance minister Arun Jaitley will review the performance of public sector banks (PSBs) on June 12 here, amid mounting pressure to resolve the vexed issue of massive toxic assets that have eroded the banks’ ability to lend, hurting investments. Major issues to be discussed in the meeting include non-performing assets (NPAs) of PSBs, status of credit to small and medium enterprises, StandUp India (launched to support entrepreneurship among women and Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe communities) and Mudra Yojana (through which the government provides funding to the non-corporate small business sector). Non-performing assets reached nine per cent of total advances…
(DC) Petrol and fuel prices will undergo daily revision by state-run oil marketing companies (OMC) from June 16. A pilot project of daily revision of oil prices has already been implemented in Udaipur, Jamshedpur, Vishakhapatnam, Chandigarh and Puducherry from May 1. “After its successful implementation, public sector oil companies have now decided to start daily revision in retail selling prices of petrol and diesel in the entire country with effect from 16th June, 2017,” Indian Oil said. At present, the state-run OMCs – Indian oil, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum (BPCL) revise retail fuel prices on a fortnightly basis…
(TH) BSES, a joint venture between Reliance Infrastructure and the Delhi government, and the central public sector undertaking, NTPC, have agreed for another round of liquidation of dues, according three officials aware of the decision. “NTPC had issued a fresh regulation notice to BSES Yamuna for restricting power supply from NTPC’s joint venture company Aravali Power Company Ltd (APCPL) in March 2017,” a government official told BusinessLine. After power supply to BSES was restricted, a resolution was reached to liquidate dues and pay the outstanding amount in tranches, another official aware of negotiations between the two parties said. NTPC owns…
(AU) देश के सबसे बड़े बैंक स्टेट बैंक ऑफ इंडिया(एसबीआई) ने होम लोन को लेकर बड़ा फैसला लिया है। एसबीआई ने 75 लाख के ऊपर के लोन पर ब्याज दरों में छूट दी है। ये छूट 15 जून के बाद उपलब्ध होगी। खास बात ये है कि कामकाजी महिलाओं को भी ब्याज में छूट मिलेगी। एसबीआई ने जानकारी दी है कि 15 जून से 75 लाख के ऊपर के होम लोन्स पर वो ब्याज दरें कम कर रहा है। इससे महानगरों में रहने वाले लोगों को खास फायदा होने की उम्मीद है। एसबीआई के इस फैसले से कामकाजी महिलाओं को खास छूट…