The controversy over his inauguration of the World Kannada Meet hurt Infosys Technologies mentor N R Narayana Murthy . He said, “I am invited to hundreds of conferences all over the world. I have been treated with the utmost respect in all these places. I go wherever I am shown affection and if I am [...]
n the last day of Samajwadi Party’s state-wide agitation against the Mayawati government , party state president Akhilesh Yadav was today arrested at the Amausi airport as soon as he landed here from New Delhi . “Akhilesh has been arrested here this morning as soon as he landed here. He was immediately sent to jail [...]
The Election commission (EC) on Wednesday made it mandatory for all the candidates to furnish Income Tax (IT) returns before entering the polls. The Election Commission has brought out a new nomination affidavit. Candidates will now have to fill a six-page affidavit including details of inherited property along with his or her nomination papers. The [...]
The enforcement directorate on Tuesday froze three bank accounts of businessman Kashinath Tapuriah and his wife in connection with the probe into the alleged black money trail of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan. “We found a joint account of Tapuriah and his wife Chandrika in a nationalised bank. The couple have two other [...]
The increase in coal prices by the world’s largest coal miner has made Coal India one hot stock. Confidence had ebbed earlier because of the government dilly-dallying on environmental clearances. The company’s board had approved a price revision of coal with effect from February 27. NC Jha, Chairman of Coal India, in an interview on CNBC-TV18 [...]
State budget writers looking for cash to balance the books have stripped a cumulative $1.8 billion from mental health services over the last 2 1/2 years, putting the public at risk as the mentally ill crowd emergency rooms and prisons, according to the nation’s largest mental health advocacy group. The Washington-based National Alliance on Mental [...]
Don’t give up hope yet on your long pending tax refund. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) — the headquarters for the income tax department — has asked field offices to ensure that all tax refunds pending from 2009-10 as well as the current fiscal are settled by the month-end. The CBDT is keen [...]
For a second year, the Obama administration’s nomination of Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Peter A. Diamond to the Federal Reserve Board risks failure. Republicans and Democrats clashed over Diamond’s qualifications — he won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences — and efforts to enact central bank stimulus programs yesterday during a Senate [...]
Hero Investments, a company of the Hero group, is acquiring the stake for Rs 739.97 a share, an almost 50 per cent discount to Tuesday’s trading price.Analysts feel Hero may now compensate Honda with a higher royalty. Hero Honda’s share price fell more than 3 per cent immediately after the news was announced today. It [...]
Hasan Ali Khan, the man who owes India a whopping Rs. 70,000 crore in taxes, has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in Mumbai under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. He will be produced in a court today. Mr Khan’s arrest late on Monday night came just a day ahead of the Supreme Court’s deadline given [...]