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Delhi High Court flays income tax officials for delays in filing appealsThe Delhi High Court criticized income tax officials for delays in filing appeals, stating that some of them are still stuck in a slow work...
Over 200m doses of Covaxin set to expireMillions of doses of Covaxin are set to expire early next year and may have to be dumped amid poor demand for Covid-19 vaccination in the c...
Jharkhand on high alert over possible third wave of COVID-19"Experts suggest that the COVID is mutating at a fast pace and any kind of lethargy may lead to serious complications. With the inputs rece...
Kerala government launches online clearance mechanism for entrepreneursThe Kerala single window interface (K-SWIFT) was launched by Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan at ASCEND Kerala 2019, an initiative to...
How Bengaluru's civic agencies are increasingly coming under judicial scrutinyMuch before these two landmark directives, it was the judiciary that moved policy makers and administrators to deal with serious and urgent...
Railways eyes Rs 1,100 crore from land sale in DelhiBids for the project will be opened next month. “The builders will be allowed to construct residential towers on the plot,” one of the offi...
Uttar Pradesh launches Chief Minister’s HelplineBy early next year, the state government proposes to operationalise a 1,000-seater grievance cell in Lucknow —to be christened ‘Chief Minis...
Government initiates move to fix black spots on highways; target to halve road deaths in 4 yearsIndia has the highest number of road fatalities in the world with road accidents claiming more than 1.4 lakh lives every year, according to...
PM Narendra Modi targets previous governments from UAE; Congress calls it 'national insult'In yet another attack on previous governments from foreign soil, PM Modi said there was "lethargy" in the past, inviting sharp reactions fr...
Government stares at 65,000 crore shortfall in indirect tax collectionGovt has budgeted for a deficit of 4.1% of GDP for current fiscal & is trying hard to meet target, originally fixed in Chidambaram's interi...
Radia tapes: Supreme Court pulls up IT dept, CBI for not acting on informationSC has taken a serious view of official lethargy for last 5 years to investigate criminality disclosed in the Niira Radia tapes.
Centre won't assist states in sugar purchaseCentre says that it's a Cabinet move to pass the control of sugar PDS to state govts and state-specific changes cannot be made in it.
- Poisonous plant killed 51 cheetals in Kanha
Regular consumption of Lantana camara, a poisonous plant found in abundance in the forest areas, has been found to be the cause behind the ...
- As economy falters, PM gets down to serious business
PM has sharply stepped up his involvement in key economic decisions, intervening in a raft of issues ranging from coal supply to foreign in...
- ‘I-T tribunal’s order will not reopen Bofors case’
Former Bofors investigators and government sources are convinced that the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal order may not change the disappoint...
- Govt seeks bank audits to ensure availability of cheap export credit
The commerce & industry ministry has called for an audit of banks by Comptroller and Auditor General to check if the interest subvention be...
- Chikungunya claims 75 lives in Kerala
Taking a serious note of the situation arising out of the spread of chikungunya which has claimed 75 lives so far in Kerala, an all-party m...