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CBDT task force gets 2 month extension to draft new direct tax code
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has given the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) task force an extension of two months to draft a new Direct Tax Code which will simplify complex income tax laws.
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Egypt: 14 injured as blast targets tourist bus near Giza pyramids
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Cairo [Egypt], May 19 (ANI): At least 14 people were injured after a roadside explosion targeted a tourist bus, carrying 25 South African citizens, close to Egypt's Giza Pyramids, state media reported on Sunday.
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Shimla: Group of differently-abled officials manage polling booth
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India] May 19 (ANI): Even as the citizens voted for the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha polls on Sunday, the Election Commission (EC) here tried their level best to include the differently-abled citizens into the electoral process.
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Hip fractures may increase death risk in senior citizens
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington DC [USA], May 19 (ANI): A recent study suggested that hip fracture dramatically increases the risk of death or other severe health conditions in older people.
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Bihar gets polling booth with creche, breastfeeding room
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], May 18 (ANI): In a bid to lure more and more voters to exercise their franchise at polling stations and to make them more citizen-friendly, a polling booth in Bihar's capital Patna is offering a unique experience to the electorates as special arrangements such as crech
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NRC should be implemented in Delhi as soon as possible: Manoj Tiwari
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): The National Register of Citizens (NRC) should be implemented soon in Delhi if the people do not want to live under the fear of attack from illegal Rohingya immigrants, said BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Saturday.
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Congress' allies jail commoners in WB for chanting 'Jai Shri Ram': Irani l
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Palampur (Himachal Pradesh) [India], May 15 (ANI): In a veiled attack at TMC, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said that if a common citizen is heard chanting 'Jai Shri Ram', "allies of Congress" will put that individual behind bars.
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Kailash Mansarovar Yatra: Fresh applicants, senior citizens get preference
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 15 (ANI): The annual Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, which is scheduled from June 8 to September 8, will for the first time incorporate a computerised draw of lots to select pilgrims, with preference being given for senior citizens and fresh applicants, external affairs m
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111-year-old oldest voter of Delhi casts his vote
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 12 (ANI): Oldest voter of the national capital, 111-year-old Bachan Singh, exercised his franchise on Sunday as all the seven seats in Delhi polled in the sixth round of national polls.
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Decked up bride-to-be casts her vote in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Vidisha (Madhya Pradesh) [India], May 12 (ANI): Do you need an example of a dutiful citizen? One was spotted on Sunday during the sixth round of polling in Madhya Pradesh's Vidhisha when a bride-to-be took a break from her marriage rituals to exercise her right to vote.
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Senior citizens, first-time voters turn flag bearers in sixth phase of LS
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
Haryana/Delhi/Jharkhand, May 12 (ANI): Visibly enthusiastic first-time voters and senior citizens were among those who exercised their franchise early morning on Sunday at different polling booths across the six states and capital of Delhi.
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Writer who called PM Modi as 'divider-in-chief' is a Pakistani citizen, sa
Updated : 6 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Saturday said that the article in the TIME magazine depicting Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "divider in chief" was written by a Pakistani as they hate the Prime Minister because of surgical strikes and Balakot
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