Chandigarh : In what may be a major cause for concern for the state government, nearly 30,000 traders in Punjab, earlier registered under the Value Added Tax, have failed to migrate to the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime. While some of them may be exempt from paying the GST — their annual turnover is […]
Chandigarh : The Irrigation Department got only Rs 40 crore this year against the estimated expenditure of Rs 350 crore on its preparedness for the rains. It is another matter that the state has so far not received enough rain that creates an emergency situation. But with the Met Department predicting heavy rain across the state […]
New Delhi, August 2 : Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a Bill to extend the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to the state of Jammu and Kashmir with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley separately assuring that there was scope of clubbing of tax rates in the future. Jaitley while defending the GST said there cannot be […]
Beijing, August 2 : China on Wednesday said India should not make territorial claims on Bhutan’s behalf in the Doklam standoff, even as it maintained that it valued good neighbourly and friendly relations with New Delhi and to keep peace on the border. “The China-Bhutan boundary issue is one between China and Bhutan. It has […]
Washington, August 2 : India is allowed to construct hydroelectric power facilities on tributaries of the Jhelum and Chenab rivers with certain restrictions under the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), the World Bank has said. The World Bank’s comments came as officials from India and Pakistan concluded the secretary-level talks over the IWT. Pakistan opposes the […]