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The Explained Desk of The Indian Express writes analyses and explanatory articles on a range of topics, including current affairs, politics, global events, sports, health and lifestyle.
The e-assessment process is aimed at minimising the level of interaction between taxpayers and the Income-Tax Department, which leads to “certain undesirable practices on the part of tax officials”.
This is because "there is no conflict between the provisions of the IPC and the MV Act", and "both the statutes operate in entirely different spheres", the Supreme Court said on Monday.
September 30 is officially the end of India's four-month monsoon season. But this year, the monsoon has refused to go away. The last time it stayed until October was back in 1961 -- when the withdrawal of the monsoon started on October 1.
In April 2017, Mongolia launched its first satellite, the Mongol Sat-1, in partnership with telecom and broadcast provider Asia Broadcast Satellite, in order to "diversify its resource-dependent economy".
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is just the latest celebrity public entity in the centre of a blackface controversy. So, what is blackface, something that keeps appearing in both apparently lighthearted situations as well as in more serious ones?
Bombay High Court has directed BMC to pay interim compensation of Rs 10 lakh to the family Rajesh Maru, who was killed after he was sucked into an MRI machine at BYL Nair Hospital in January 2018.
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir is an area of 13,297 sq km, which was under the control of the Pakistani forces when the ceasefire line came into effect on January 1, 1949.
The pipeline will transport fuel from Barauni refinery in Bihar's Begusarai district to Amalekhgunj in southeastern Nepal, situated across the border from Raxaul in East Champaran district.
WATCH VIDEO: ISRO's Chandrayaan-2 will land on the Moon between 1:30 am and 2:30 am on Saturday, September 07, 2019. We explain what happens before Chandrayaan-2 lands on the Moon and after that.
Alerts by the IMD are colour-coded from Green to Red. 'Green' stands for 'No warning': no action needs to be taken by the authorities, and the forecast is of light to moderate rain. A 'Red' alert stands for "Warning", and asks authorities to "Take action".
Assam NRC Explained: Witness to decades of migration from Bangladesh — formerly East Bengal and then East Pakistan — Assam already has an NRC, which was published in 1951 on the basis of that year’s Census.
‘Status of Policing in India Report 2019: Police Adequacy and Working Conditions’ has been prepared by Common Cause and the Lokniti programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS).
The book is packed with individual accounts of migrants of their experiences across a period of more than six decades between World War II and the recent refugee crisis in European countries.
The law was intended to target terrorists, drug traffickers and regimes that the United States considers criminal, such as those in Iran, Syria, and North Korea, not to cut economic ties with a major trade partner on the question of tariffs.
Gen Bajwa, who turns 59 in November, was appointed to his current three-year term by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on November 29, 2016. This is the second time in the past decade that a Pakistan Army Chief has got an extension.
Chatterjee, the MLA from Behala Paschim Assembly constituency in the southern part of the city of Kolkata, is among the most senior members of the Trinamool Congress, and considered close to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
