The reduction in corporate tax rates is set to cost Rs 1.45 lakh crore annually. The government has maintained that it would keep its fiscal deficit target of 3.3 per cent of GDP by March 2020.

The proposal is on the agenda of the IIT Council meeting called Friday, The Indian Express has learned. The Council, headed by the Human Resource Development Minister, is the highest decision-making body of all the 23 institutes.

The tax department also surveyed the books of accounts of Nourish Organic Foods Ltd, a company in which his son Abir Lavasa is a director and holds 10,000 shares as part of an employee stock option plan last financial year.

Through this month, regional provident fund offices have been sending out queries in a specified format to companies seeking “employment data of the proportion of SC & ST employees in total employment”.

The Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) was registered Monday, ED sources said Tuesday, adding that the case is based on an FIR filed by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Mumbai Police in connection with alleged irregularities in the Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank.

The historic move by Britain’s Supreme Court offered a ringing endorsement of Parliament’s sovereignty and slapped down what it viewed as Johnson’s attempt to use executive power to silence the legislature.

Trump, who was speaking to reporters ahead of his bilateral meeting with Modi Tuesday, stopped short of blaming Pakistan for supporting terrorism, and pointed to Iran as the biggest state sponsor of terror.

She is the wife of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa who, during the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, had on five occasions opposed the clean chit given by the Election Commission to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then BJP president Amit Shah

Abdullah, also a three-term Chief Minister of J&K, was already under detention at his Gupkar Road residence when the PSA order was issued against him by the Srinagar District Magistrate on September 14. His home was declared a subsidiary jail.

The IRDAI has allowed health insurers to effect a decrease in minimum and/ or increase in maximum premiums, and maximum entry age. Typically, the maximum age limit of health insurance policies filed is up to 65 years.

Film Division officials requested Pune-based National Film Archive of India (NFAI) to accept these reels for preservation. But NFAI expressed its inability to do so because of space shortage at its own facilities.

The school principal denied the allegations and claimed that he only asked the girl to stay at home for a few days until the matter is resolved. He also said he did not have state government recognition to run a school and claimed it was a private coaching centre with minimal infrastructure.

Stating the entire exercise will cost Rs 12,000 crore, Shah, speaking to the room of census officers, flagged the role of the census in the “scientific planning and development of the nation”.

On Sunday, three men in Suari village, Kalantus Barla, Philip Horo and Kachhap, were attacked by a mob that alleged they were carving an animal prohibited from being slaughtered. While Barla died on the way to hospital, Horo and Kachhap are recovering.

Senior advocate Arvind Datar requested the bench to keep the petition pending till the Centre acted on the Collegium’s revised proposal to send Justice Kureshi to Tripura as Chief Justice instead of Madhya Pradesh as decided earlier.

“I am always ready to help. But it depends on both these gentlemen. I am ready, willing and able. If both want it, then I will do it,” said Trump while speaking to reporters along with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan before their bilateral meeting.

Given that rated non-financial companies in India reported a total pre-tax net income of about $35 billion (around Rs 2.45 lakh crore) for the fiscal year ended March 2019, assuming their earnings remain unchanged for fiscal 2019, they will end up saving about $3 billion (over Rs 21,000 crore) from the tax rate reduction

“It should be seen as a big supply side reform. We are giving 15 per cent... no other country is offering such a low tax rate. Companies availing of this option (and not claiming any exemption or incentive) will not pay the minimum alternate tax."

The Quadrilateral, which was revived in November 2017, has so far met at the level of Joint Secretary-rank officials. The new plan will result in an upgrade by at least three levels.

The three villagers, identified as Kalantus Barla, Philip Horo and Faagu Kacchap, are alleged to have been carving an animal prohibited for slaughtering. Other villagers spotted them and started beating them.

Over 400 undergraduate students are set to boycott the semester examinations that are scheduled to begin on Monday to protest the delay in appointing Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy as the new VC. This is the first time in the NLSIU’s 31-year history that students are boycotting classes and exams.

Addressing a 50,000-strong gathering at the Howdy Modi event in Houston, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that after 70 years, “one thing has been bid farewell”. “Aap samajh gaye, na? (You have understood, haven’t you?) he said, to a loud cheer from the crowd.

The school now has 10 classrooms, including a ‘smart classroom’, that overlook a small grassy lawn with plants arranged neatly in flower beds.

In Maharashtra, the Congress and NCP have already finalised their alliance and declared that they will contest 125 seats each.