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To curb evasion, EU report calls for 2% global wealth tax on billionaires

October 22, 2023 admin

The report calls for expanding the range of assets brought under the system of automatic exchange of information. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Pointing out that tax evasion is enabling billionaires to enjoy effective tax rates equivalent to 0% to 0.5% of their wealth, the European Union Tax Observatory in its ‘Global Tax Evasion Report…

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CEO dissatisfied with gaps in arrangements for conduct of elections

October 22, 2023 admin

The Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana, Vikas Raj explaining about the arrangements that are being made for ensuring inducement-free elections, in Hyderabad on Thursday, October 12, 2023. | Photo Credit: NAGARA GOPAL Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj has expressed dissatisfaction over the gaps in the arrangements for hassle-free conduct of the forthcoming Assembly elections. The…

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Opposition parties accusee BRS regime of trying to conceal facts about Medigadda barrage

October 22, 2023 admin

Congress leader and Manthani MLA D Sridhar Babu staging a sit-in protest at Ambatpally village near the Lakshmi (Medigadda) barrage in Telangana’s Jayashankar Bhupalpally district on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The reported sinking of one of the pillars of the Lakshmi (Medigadda) barrage of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KLIP) on Saturday night…

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Iraq sentences Saddam Hussein’s daughter for promoting political party

October 22, 2023 admin

Raghad Saddam Hussein, the daughter of executed ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. | Photo Credit: AFP A Baghdad court on Sunday sentenced in absentia the exiled daughter of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to seven years in prison for “promoting” her father’s outlawed Baath party. The party was dissolved and banned after Hussein was toppled during…

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Mizoram polls: Nomination papers of 173 candidates found valid; one under fresh scrutiny

October 22, 2023 admin

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar interacting with media at the Press Conference organised by the Election Commission of India for the General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Mizoram. | Photo Credit: ANI Nomination papers of 173 candidates out of 174 filed for the November 7 Mizoram Assembly elections were found valid during scrutiny, officials…

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Cricket World Cup 2023 IND vs NZ | I bowled good line and length and took whatever came my way: Mohammed Shami

October 22, 2023 admin

India’s Mohammed Shami celebrates after taking the wicket of New Zealand’s Rachin Ravindra during the 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup ODI between India and New Zealand. | Photo Credit: DEEPAK KR The seasoned fast bowler was equally quick on the draw while addressing the media. Fresh from a five for 54 yield against New…

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Minister V. Abdurahiman calls for responsible behaviour in sports

October 22, 2023 admin

Minister for Sports V. Abdurahiman has stressed the need for a change in attitude and a more responsible approach in the sports sector. Speaking at the inauguration of the Inter Basketball Courts and Sports Medicine Centre at Kannur Govt. Vocational Higher Secondary School on Sunday, he expressed discontent with irresponsible behaviour among those entrusted with…

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SC’s same-sex marriage verdict acts as a formidable document upholding the Indianness of homosexuality and gender queerness

October 22, 2023 admin

LGTBQ activist and petitioner for same sex-marriages Shivangi Sharma speaks with the media at the courtyard of India’s Supreme Court in New Delhi on October 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Though the Supreme Court has refused to legalise same-sex marriage, the Constitution Bench judgment is a formidable step to silence hostile voices…

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Man held on charge of snatching gold chain

October 22, 2023 admin

The Perumbavoor police arrested a 59-year-old man on charge of threatening a housewife and decamping with her gold chain on Sunday. Johney of Pallikkara West went to a house in Allapra and sought drinking water. He followed the woman who went to the kitchen to take water, threatened, snatched her chain and escaped. He had…

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PPF returns 41 bps behind formula rates

October 22, 2023 admin

While correcting most schemes’ returns gradually in each quarter since October 2022, the government has held back hikes for the PPF, unlike other small savings instruments. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Returns on the Public Provident Fund (PPF), frozen at 7.1% since April 2020, should have been pegged at 7.51% for this quarter as per…

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