Average gross income for individual taxpayers rises 56% in 8 yearsThe Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) disclosed that in the assessment year 2021-22, the average gross total income of individual taxpay...
ITR filings climb up by 90% in nine years to 6.37 cr in AY 2021-22: GovtThe income tax department reported that individual taxpayer I-T returns increased by 90% in 9 years to 6.37 crore in the 2021–2022 fiscal y...
Indians are becoming more disciplined in filing income tax returnsDelayed tax return filings have fallen sharply in India, dropping from 60% for assessment year 2020 down to 25% for 2023, according to rese...
Net direct tax collection reaches highest-ever figure in FY 22The net direct tax collections (income tax and corporate tax) reached an all time high of Rs 14.09 lakh crore in financial year 2021-22 aga...
18 cases of Delta sub-variant AY.4.2 detected in India: GovtOf the 18 cases of AY.4.2 detected so far in the country (as on December 3, 2021), 10 cases are from Gujarat, four from Tamil Nadu, two fro...
Explainer: Delta dominates the world, but scientists watch for worrisome offspringDelta is more than two times as contagious as previous SARS-CoV-2 variants, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
In Diwali week, only 18 districts in 4 states report over 10% positivity rateEven as the festival week drew to a close on November 6, only a dozen and half districts across four states are reporting a positivity rate...
COVID-19 AY 4.2 variant frequency too low to be of concern, says INSACOGAY.4.2 variant of COVID-19 is less than 0.1 percent of all variants of concern and variant of interest (VOC/VOI) and is too low to be of co...
Cases of Delta AY.4.2 variant of coronavirus reach 7 in KarnatakaState Health and Family Welfare Commissioner D Randeep said, "There are seven cases (of AY.4.2) in the state -- three in Bengaluru and four...
Two suspected cases of AY.4.2 variant of COVID in Karnataka sent for genome sequencing: Karnataka Health Minister"There are two suspected cases of AY.4.2 variant of viruses and I have instructed my department to send the samples for genomic sequencing ...
India says government panel looking into new Delta subvariantA panel of experts set up by the Indian government is looking into a Delta coronavirus subvariant that has been detected in the UK
Delta Plus variant not a cause for worry right now, say expertsThe AY.4.2 was first detected in July and is found to have caused one in ten Covid-19 cases in the UK. It is also detected in at least 30 m...
Delta+ Variant AY.4.2 driving UK surge seen in IndiaSo far only 20-30 cases - or less than 0.1% of the cases sequenced in India - have been identified with the AY.4.2 sublineage of the Delta ...
Seven cases of 'more contagious’ mutant of Delta variant found in IndiaAY.4.2, dubbed "Delta Plus" and now named VUI-21OCT-01 by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), has been under closer scrutiny in recent d...
Israel reports subvariant of Delta coronavirus strainFrancois Balloux, professor of computational systems biology at University College London, has told AFP that the subvariant is rare and doe...
New mutation AY.4.2 of Delta variant being monitored in EnglandOverall infection rates in Britain remain stubbornly high, despite high rates of vaccination, and on Monday nearly 50,000 new cases of Covi...
Income tax dept asks taxpayers to send online response for AY 20-21In an official statement issued on Sunday, it said that till date, 93 per cent of the refund claims in Income Tax Returns filed for assessm...