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Pearl Harbor attack bombing survivor is keeping memory of Japanese attack at 106Even as the St. Louis headed into the Pacific Ocean, Johnson, whose job was known as a fireman on the ship, knew little about the attack.
A tale of two minorities: Why India never saw anti-Jainism like Europe's anti-semitismA comparison of Jains in India and Jews in Europe explores why one civilisation enabled coexistence while the other descended into exclusio...
Gangasagar Mela, 'bigger than Kumbh', should be given national fair status: MamataWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the Centre to grant national fair status to Gangasagar Mela, claiming it is bigger and mor...
Industry leaders welcome GST Council's decision on rate cutsThe GST Council's 54th meeting announced significant rate cuts and policy adjustments, including GST exemptions for foreign airlines' impor...
MP government to take senior citizens on free pilgrimage by air under its existing schemeIt will be part of the Chouhan government's flagship 'Mukhyamantri Teerth Darshan Yojana', which was launched in June 2012, an official sai...
SC dismisses plea of Pvt tour operators seeking exemption from GST for Haj, Umrah toursThe tour operators had challenged the levy of GST on Hajis who avail themselves of services offered by registered private tour operators be...
Saudi Arabia triples taxes, cuts $26B in costs amid pandemicSaudis tripled taxes on basic goods and cut spending by $26 billion to stave off a Covid impact.
Over 2,300 women to go on Haj this year without 'Mehram': Mukhtar Abbas NaqviThe Modi government had last year allowed women going to Haj without Mehram, which had resulted in about 1,300 Muslim women going for the p...
View: Why only Haj? End subsidies for all pilgrimsA subsidy for religious pilgrims amounts to discrimination against rationalists and atheists, violating Constitutional guarantees of equali...
Redbus announces launch of pilgrimage packagesRedbus intends to make this an end-to-end travel convenience feature by enabling users to also customize their packages by adding additiona...
No GST shock: Government to exempt healthcare, education out of its ambitThere are over 60 services, like religious pilgrimage, healthcare, education, skill development, journalistic activities which are exempt f...
Economic Survey 2016: E-tourist visa extension, medical tourism to boost sectorMeasures such as extension of duration of stay to 60 days under eTV instead of 30 days, extending eTV facility for medical tourists are als...
BJP surrendering sensitive issues of Jammu region: JKNPPJKNPP's Harsh Dev Singh alleged that order issued by the Finance Department imposing service tax on helicopter services availed by the pilg...
No proposal to exempt helicopter services from tax: J&K govtJammu and Kashmir government today said there is Katra to Vaishno Devi Shrine from the service tax imposed on commercial chopper services i...
- Tax imposed on copter service for pilgrims taken in haste: BJP
Coalition partner BJP said that J&K minister's decision of levying service tax on helicopter service at Vaishno Devi shrine was taken in a ...
BJP seeks immediate roll-back of service tax on J&K chopper servicesThe BJP leader claimed that the minister was misleading the nation by stating that the tax had been imposed on all helicopter services in J...
Kailash Mansarovar and Haj pilgrimage exempt from Service TaxThe Haj Committees and Kumaon Mandal Vikas Nigam Ltd, which organise the religious pilgrimages will not have to pay Service Tax.
Pilgrim's progress: Excesses of deluxe devotee blamed for pilgrimage tragediesMost pilgrims in Uttarakhand weren’t like this but as the number of affluent Indians have been increasing, so has their desire to go on pil...
- J&K to set up fourth shrine board to manage 'Machail Yatra'
J&K is all set to create another autonomous board to manage the lesser known 'Machail Yatra' that is conducted yearly in the Chenab Valley.
- Southern India tourism grid to be formed
A 'Southern India tourism grid' will be formed for the integrated and efficient promotion of tourism.