Reacting to the 'survey' conducted by sleuths of the I-T department at the BBC offices, located in Delhi and Mumbai, Jammu and Kashmir's former Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah on Tuesday said that this is not the 'right time' to carry out such operation.
The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Customs department has seized a total of 2,216.07 grams of gold worth Rs 97.5 lakh at Kochi airport in two instances, said an official statement on Tuesday.
The Income Tax department on Tuesday conducted a survey at BBC's offices in Delhi and Mumbai in view of the British public broadcaster's "deliberate non-compliance" with the Transfer Pricing Rules and its vast diversion of profits, said sources.
"On the basis of profiling done by the officers of Customs AIU batch, a passenger coming from Dubai to Cochin International Airport by flight EK 530 was intercepted at the green channel," an official familiar with the matter said.
The All India Bar Association (AIBA) on Tuesday congratulated the Income-tax Department for going through BBC's documents to check irregularities relating to international taxation and Tax Deducted at Source transactions.
"The BBC has become the most 'Bhrasht Bakwaas Corporation' in the world. Unfortunately, BBC's propaganda and Congress' agenda are on the same lines. Today, India is attaining great heights under PM Modi's leadership and some sections do not like this. The BBC has all rights to do journali
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], February 14 (ANI/NewsVoir): To strengthen their message of spreading awareness towards children combating Cancer, Narayana Health's Department of Paediatric Oncology today organised a Walkathon under the theme 'Super Power'. Flagged off by Dr Sunil Bhat, Vice-C
The sources added the IT officials impounded some mobile phones and laptop and desktops of persons working with account and finance department of the British public broadcaster, will hand it back after taking backup of the devices.
The Department of Archaeology and Museums has loaned 173 masterpieces of Gandhara art from the Peshawar, Swat, Dir, Hund, Taxila, Karachi, and Islamabad museums for an exhibition in Beijing that will run for three months.
"The scheme has been implemented without imposing any additional financial burden on the beneficiaries. The pilot project of this scheme was inaugurated by Advocate G R Anil, Minister for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs on February 13 in Nadathara Panchayath of Ollur Constituency i