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New Delhi, May 13 : The government has further extended the deadline for settling tax disputes under the Vivad se Vishwaas scheme without paying any interest and penalty to December 31, 2020 from June 30, 2020.This was announced by the Finance Minist…

New Delhi, May 13 : The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) on Wednesday issued a slew of guidelines to expedite implementation of projects under the flagship programme PMEGP to hand-hold local production a day after Prime Minister Narendr…

New Delhi, May 13 : In a move to provide more scope for Indian companies, including MSMEs, the Centre has decided to disallow gobal firms from participating in government procurement tenders up to Rs 200 crore.Speaking to the media here on Wednesday,…

New Delhi, May 13 : The CISF faced its highest spurt so far in novel coronavirus infection as 41 personnel tested positive within 24 hours, taking the total to 109 infected troopers in the paramilitary force till Wednesday, officials said.The informa…

New Delhi, May 13 : The fiscal package to be announced by the Centre on Wednesday would be 5 per cent of the GDP and a part of the same could be restatement of the existing schemes, according to a research conducted by US-based financial services fir…

New Delhi, May 13 : A banker from Canada, a resort director, a top executive in a leading IT company and a senior corporate communications professional with a major hospital chain.Defying all stereotypes and preconceived notions of farmhands, an incr…

New Delhi, May 12 : Announcing an economic package to tide over the coronavirus crisis, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the Indian economy should take a quantum jump, and not in incremental manner.Addressing the nation on Tuesday evening…

New Delhi, May 12 : Two-thirds of workers in India have lost employment during the Covid-19 pandemic with the self-employed in the urban areas being the worst-hit, according to a survey by Azim Premji University.The messages to remember, the survey s…

New Delhi, May 12 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday emphasized self-reliance and said that humanity will not accept defeat from coronavirus.”The only way forward is self-reliance.India’s self-reliance addresses concerns about world’s happines…

Amaravati, May 12 : In a massive goof-up, staff of a government-run hospital in Andhra Pradesh’s Kurnool town swapped the corpse of a man who died of Covid-19 with that of a non-Covid patient.The incident came to light on Tuesday when the relatives o…