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Personal income tax receipts constituted 60.2% of the net collections, while corporate taxes yielded 36.6% of net revenues. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Growth in India’s net direct tax collections slowed slightly to 19.54% by July 11, relative to a 21% rise recorded by June 17, with revenues hitting ₹5.74 lakh crore, the Income Tax…
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Amritpal Singh won Khadoor Sahib seat by 1,97,120 votes (Representational) Chandigarh: Harpreet Singh, brother of jailed radical Sikh preacher and Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh who once ran an anti-drug campaign, along with his associate Lovepreet Singh was arrested by the Punjab Police in a drug case and their dope test was positive, officials…
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Veteran Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi is not thinking about hanging up his international boots soon and hopes to continue playing for the country till the 2026 T20 World Cup, scheduled to be hosted jointly by India and Sri Lanka. Nabi, who is leading Dambulla Sixers in the ongoing Lanka Premier League (LPL), wants…
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“Congress party murdered the Constitution,” said Kiren Rijiju (File) New Delhi: Hitting out at the Congress Party over the Emergency imposed in 1975, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Kiren Rijiju said the Union government has taken a big step to observe June 25 as the “Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas” to ensure that an incident like the Emergency…
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The population of street dogs in Turkey is estimated to be 4 million (Representational) Ankara: Turkey’s ruling party presented a bill to parliament on Friday that aims to round up millions of stray dogs, a plan that has alarmed animal lovers who say a mass neutering campaign would be a better solution than locking dogs…
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Palestinian children inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house in Rafah. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Hamas is suggesting during ceasefire negotiations that an independent government of non-partisan figures run post-war Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a member of the Palestinian Islamist movement’s political bureau said Friday. “We proposed that a…
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Amazon has provided over 200,000 pages of data in response to the subpoena (Representational) A New York federal judge has ordered Amazon.com to comply with a subpoena from a U.S. civil rights agency investigating claims that the online retailer discriminated against pregnant warehouse workers. U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan late Thursday rejected Amazon’s…
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The size of the world’s population in 2100 will be six percent lower, the report said (Representational) New York: Earth’s population will peak in the mid-2080s at around 10.3 billion people, then drop slightly to a level much lower than anticipated a decade ago, the United Nations said. The current population of 8.2 billion people…
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Apple. File. | Photo Credit: AP An investigation by India’s antitrust body has found that Apple exploited its dominant position in the market for app stores on its iOS operating system, engaging “in abusive conduct and practices”, a confidential report seen by Reuters showed. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been investigating Apple Inc…
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An altercation between two factions of the right wing group Karni Sena led to a shootout in Rajasthan. The incident took place at upscale Chitrakoot in Jaipur on Friday. Mahipal Singh Makrana of the Karni Sena was attacked allegedly by the gunman of Shiv Singh Shekhawat of the Rashtriya Karni Sena. In turn, Shiv Singh Shekhawat…
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