NEW DELHI: Corporation tax collections overtook the non-corporate tax mop-up, which went up 1.3%, pulling down the gross direct tax collections growth to 4.2% till mid-Dec with the overall kitty swelling past the Rs 20 lakh crore mark.Latest data released by the income tax department pegged corporation tax collections up to Dec 17 at Rs…
Lucknow: Five people, including two assistant development officers and a schoolteacher, were killed when a massive tree fell on a UP roadways bus near Rajabazar area of Barabanki on Friday, police said.The incident occurred at 10.40 am while the bus was en route from the district headquarters to Haidargarh with 60 passengers onboard.According to officials,…
Lucknow: In an insurance fraud case, Lucknow Police arrested a husband-wife duo who faked the husband’s death to siphon off Rs 25 lakh from a private insurance company.The shocking twist was that the man declared dead was alive and living under the same roof as the claimant. “The accused, Ravi Shankar, a collection agent, and…
Former wicketkeeper Rashid Latif had said that Pakistan is the only country that cannot even produce a decent captain.. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images). Pakistan’s National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has initiated proceedings against former captain Rashid Latif following his comments on the Pakistan Cricket Board and its chairman Mohsin Naqvi.. NCCIA spokesperson Najeebullah…
Pakistan’s Salman Ali Agha, left, chats with Sri Lanka’s Charith Asalanka as they wait for coin toss before the start of the second one day international cricket match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Friday, Nov 14, 2025. (AP Photo) The Sri Lanka cricket board on Monday said that two players will return…
The sudden demise of singer Zubeen Garg in Singapore has left the entire nation mourning. The 52-year-old artist, who rose to fame with the hit song Ya Ali from the Bollywood film Gangster, lost his life in a scuba diving accident. But did you know this was not the first time he had faced a…
New Delhi: Delhi University’s Ramanujan College has suspended a male student for 88 days for allegedly body shaming girl students and rusticated two first-year students for their reported attack on each other on the campus.Colleges are rarely known to act against students for serious insults or verbal abuse. Ramanujan College said that such behaviour amounted…
Indian stock markets ended marginally higher in the special Muhurat Trading session on Sunday, marking the beginning of Samvat 2082 on a positive note. The Nifty closed at 25,868.60, up 25.45 points or 0.10 per cent, while the Sensex settled at 84,426.34, gaining 62.97 points or 0.07 per cent.As per news agency ANI, broader markets…
NEW DELHI: A police sub-inspector in Maharashtra’s Satara district has been suspended and arrested, along with one civilian, after a woman doctor died by suicide and accused them of rape and harassment. Satara District Police registered a case against PSI Gopal Badane and another man, Bankar, under charges of rape and abetment to suicide. “The…
BENGALURU: The Infosys board approved a Rs 18,000 crore share buyback on Thursday, the largest in the company’s history and marking its fifth buyback since 2017. The buyback, to be conducted through the tender offer route, will be at a price of Rs 1,800 per share in cash, involving the purchase of 10 crore equity…
