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Aarushi murder: HC slams CBI, trial court judge
14 Oct 2017
The Allahabad High Court gave a number of instances of a shoddy investigation and trial, from “subjective findings” by forensic experts to tutoring and planting of witnesses and suppression of evidence
If demonetisation is a bold step, so is suicide: Arun Shourie
04 Oct 2017
Former disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari Vajpayee government, launched a blistering attack on the Narendra Modi government, blaming it squarely for the current economic slowdown and terming demonetisation as the “largest money-laundering scheme ever”
Uproar as Taj Mahal blanked out from UP tourism booklet
03 Oct 2017
A state government tourism brochure with a picture of the Ganga Aarti in Varanasi on its cover featuring chief minister Yogi Adityanath covers most of the cultural and religious sites related to Hinduism, with the Mughals having been blanked out
Govt nudges PSUs to hike dividend, boost capex by Rs25,000 cr
29 Sep 2017
The finance ministry is banking on central public sector enterprises that have free reserves and surplus cash to both boost government’s coffers through liberal dividends and finance physical and social infrastructure
Modi govt has made ‘mess’ of economy: Yashwant Sinha
27 Sep 2017
Modi claims he has seen poverty from close quarters (and) his finance minister is working overtime to make sure that all Indians also see it from equally close quarters, Sinha quipped
GST return filings fall as registrations rise in August
25 Sep 2017
About 3.5 million of the 6.77 million registered tax payers have so far managed to pay tax and file return in August against the 3.6 million out of the 4.56 million eligible taxpayers who paid GST in July
Taxpayers claim Rs65,000-cr of Rs95,000-cr GST paid as input tax credit
16 Sep 2017
The Central Board of Excise and Customs has now asked tax officials to verify GST transitional credit claims of over Rs1 crore made by 162 entities
AIADMK general council expels Sasikala, TTV Dinakaran
12 Sep 2017
The meeting of the general council officially declared the merger of the factions led by E Palaniswami O Pannerselvan and decided to name the deceased leader J Jayalalithaa as the eternal general secretary of the party
SC tells states to appoint senior cops against cow vigilantism
06 Sep 2017
The Supreme Court has directed all states and the centre to appoint a senior police officer for each district to serve as the nodal officer to ensure that cow vigilantism groups do not take the law into their own hands
Sitharaman becomes India’s 2nd woman defence minister after Indira Gandhi
04 Sep 2017
Analysts say the Prime Minister has been solely led by performance and an assessment of members of his party and that of the alliance partners when he chose to overload some ministers while opting for former bureaucrats where he had no choice
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