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New Delhi, Mar 2: Congress vice -predsident Rahul Gandhi launched a biting attack on Modi government on Wednesday. He said Modi had introduced a 'Fair and Lovely Yojna' to convert black money into white. In his response to the budget presented on Monday, Rahul took on the government on a wide range of issues – from black money to MGNREGA. He recalled that Modi had rubbished MGNREGA before becoming

New Delhi, Mar 2: BJP today alleged that the decision to change the affidavit in Ishrat Jahan encounter case was taken at the "political level" involving the then Home Minister P Chidambaram, then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, and asked Congress to come clean on it. Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu charged that CBI was misused by the then UPA

New Delhi, Mar 2: Budget session: AIADMK members disrupted both houses of parliament on Tuesday demanding action against former home minister P Chidambaram and his son Karti over corruption charges. The protesting members shouted slogans in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha against the former Congress minister and his son. Soon after the Lok Sabha met for the day, AIADMK members trooped near the

New Delhi, Mar 1: With Congress gunning for HRD Minister Smriti Irani with a Privilege Motion, BJP today hit back in Lok Sabha by pressing for similar action against the opposition party's Chief Whip Jyotiraditya Scindia for "defamatory" remarks against Minister Bandaru Dattatreya. BJP's Chief Whip Arjun Ram Meghwal accused Scindia of "misleading" the House on February 24 by alleging that

New Delhi, Mar 1: In a major development, the Union Home Ministry on Tuesday informed Parliament that a Law Commission is reviewing the sedition law. The Ministry of Law and Justice has asked the Law Commission to study the usage and provisions of Section 124A (sedition law) of the IPC. It is noteworthy that the development has come close on the heels of the arrest of JNU students Kanhaiya Kumar

New Delhi, Mar 1: The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea seeking quashing of criminal prosecution, suspension and other actions taken against Gujarat cops in the 2004 alleged fake encounter killing of Ishrat Jahan in view of recent testimony of jailed LET operative David Headley. Headley, the Pakistani-American terrorist, had told to a Mumbai court that Jahan was a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)

New Delhi, Mar 1: Opposition on Monday dubbed as "mere rhetoric" projection of the budget as pro-poor and said government will not be able to "fool" farmers with "hollow promises". Predictably, BJP hailed the budget calling its measures for rural India "historic". In a sharp attack on the government, Congress said it has "failed to create an immediate stimulus" to address economic challenges

Mar 1: India's Finance Minister Arun Jaitley offered residents with undisclosed income a one-time amnesty from prosecution as pressure mounted on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver on his poll promise of unearthing black money. The window for declaring assets will open on June 1 for four months, Jaitley said in his budget speech on Monday. Taxpayers can get immunity from prosecution by paying

New Delhi, Feb 29: Mobile phone bills might see a marginal increase as a result of new a tax proposed in the Union Budget 2016. The finance minister Arun Jaitley has announced an additional 0.5% tax on all taxable services under the new Krishi Kalyan Tax aimed at benefiting the farming community. This tax will be over and above the service tax already levied on services.This means users will have

New Delhi, Feb 29: The Budget for 2016-17 today offered sops for small and marginal income tax payers, hiked the surcharge by 3 per cent on earnings above Rs 1 crore, levied a pollution cess on petrol, diesel cars and SUVs and offered a one-time compliance window for domestic black money holders slapping a tax and penalty of 45 per cent. Presenting the third Budget, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley