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Good News! PM Modi launches a new platform to make honest taxpayers’ life easy

The focus of the tax reforms has been on reduction in tax rates and on simplification of direct tax laws. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched the platform for “Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest” via video conferencing on the 13th of August 2020. Faceless assessment, faceless appeal, taxpayer charter are the three major pillars of the…

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Indian Railways starts checking tickets by scanning QR codes

Railway ticket examiners have started checking tickets by scanning QR codes printed on tickets under the Moradabad division of Northern Railways. With this move, the railway officials aim to reduce human-to-human contact amid coronavirus pandemic. Informing about the new initiative, launched on 22 July, Moradabad Divisional Railway Manager Tarun Prakash said, as quoted by News…

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Tax filing dates extended, business rules eased, ATM, bank charges waived off in Covid relief measures

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a slew of measures for extension of statutory and regulatory compliances in view of the coronavirus pandemic spreading its wings and impacting the economy. Allaying fears that there is no economic emergency in the country, she said that the Economic Task Force will soon announce an economic relief package to…

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Reliance Jio offers free broadband for new customers, double data for existing

Reliance Jio on Monday said it will offer free broadband service to new customers and doubled data limit for all existing customers to support work from home in fight against coronavirus. The company has also doubled data limits for top-up voucher and bundle-free calling minutes to non-Jio networks in these vouchers. “To ensure that everyone…

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COVID-19: Coronavirus Positive cases in India rise to 637 | Total Death Reaches 13

The confirmed coronavirus cases in India rose to 606 on Wednesday, of whom 43 are foreign nationals, said the Union Health Ministry. There have been ten deaths so far in the country. Incidentally, Wednesday happens to be the first day of the 21-day nationwide lockdown announced by PM Modi on Tuesday evening. The number of active…

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Four Nirbhaya case convicts hanged to death in Tihar jail

Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26), Akshay Kumar (31), and Mukesh Kumar (32) convicted for Nirbhaya’s gangrape and murder, were hanged to death in Delhi’s Tihar jail early on Friday morning. Sandeep Goel, Director-General of Tihar jail, confirmed to reporters outside the prison that the four convicts were hanged together at 5.30 a.m. A doctor has examined…

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