India

New Delhi, Jul 9: Employers will soon be able claim input tax credit on facilities like food, transport and insurance provided to employees under any law, once the proposed amendments to the GST Act are approved by Parliament and the state legislatures. The government has proposed as many as 46 amendments to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) laws -- Central GST, State GST, Integrated GST and

Jammu, Jul 9: National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah today reiterated his demand for dissolution of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and said the situation in Kashmir is not conducive for polls. His party, however, would take part in the democratic exercise whenever it is held, he added. “The National Conference has gone on record to demand the dissolution of the assembly. It

Ballia, Jul 9: Residents of the native village of 'Nirbhaya' on Monday demanded immediate hanging of those convicted of her rape and murder, as a wave of happiness erupted after the Supreme Court dismissed review pleas filed by three out of the four convicts against death penalty in the December 16, 2012 case. As the news of the Supreme Court verdict reached the village, people of Medawara Kalan

New Delhi, Jul 9: The Supreme Court today ordered transfer of the accused in the Kathua gang rape and murder case from Kathua prison in Jammu and Kashmir to Gurdaspur district jail in Punjab. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra directed the J and K Police to file a supplementary charge sheet in the case within eight weeks. The apex court granted liberty to the litigants of the case to move

Tulasigeri, Jul 9: When top Indian officials salute the national flag anywhere in the world, women in a village in Karnataka swell with pride. This is because Tulasigeri is home to India's only official flag-making company and because the local men have proved themselves not up to the job. "The men were not as patient as the women and got the measurements wrong," groans Annapurna Koti, a

Chennai, Jul 9: BJP President Amit Shah arrived in the Tamil Nadu capital on Monday for a one-day visit during which he is set to energise grassroots level functionaries ahead of next year's Lok Sabha polls and meet a cross-section of leaders, party insiders said. Shah, who was met with a rousing welcome by party cadres, will hold an interactive session with members of the Sakthi and Maha Sakthi

New Delhi, Jul 9: The Supreme Court (SC) today upheld the verdict of death for the four Nirbhaya gangrape and murder convicts. An SC bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and justices R Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan rejected the pleas of three of the four convicts Mukesh (29), Pawan Gupta (22) and Vinay Sharma (23). The fourth death row convict, Akshay Kumar Singh (31), has not yet filed a

Mumbai, Jul 9: The National Company Law Tribunal on Monday dismissed a petition by former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry who had alleged oppression of minority shareholders and mismanagement by Tata Sons, drawing the curtains on an 18-months long feud. The tribunal, a quasi-judicial body for corporate grievances, said it did not find any merit in allegations of mismanagement in Tata group

New Delhi, Jul 8: Eminent economist Amartya Sen said that despite being the fastest-growing economy the country has taken a "quantum jump in the wrong direction" since 2014. He also said that due to moving backwards, the country is now second worst in the region. "Things have gone pretty badly wrong... It has taken a quantum jump in the wrong direction since 2014. We are getting backwards in the

New Delhi, Jul 8: India has conveyed to Russia its unwillingness to go ahead with the joint development of a fifth-generation fighter aircraft (FGFA) primarily due to the high cost involved in the project, official sources said. They, however, said the negotiations between the two countries on the much ambitious project have not yet been shelved as India was ready to have a re-look at co