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The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) and all field offices will be observing and celebrating the 159th Income Tax Day i.e. Aaykar Diwas on 24th July, 2019. It was on 24th July, 1860 that Income Tax was introduced for the first time in India by Sir James Wilson to compensate for the losses ...

Shiva Thapa became India’s first gold medallist at the President’s Cup boxing tournament after getting a walkover in the finals in Astana, Kazakhstan. Making his international debut in the newly-introduced Olympic category of 63kg, Thapa was to fight Kazakhstan’s Zakir Safiullin in the summit ...

FIFA considering a bid from Nigeria for the hosting rights of the U20 Women's World Cup for 2020.The breakthrough came following months of pressure on FIFA by the Nigerian Football Federation whose president is said to be working hard to bring as many FIFA and CAF competitions to the country. ...

Andhra Pradesh became the first state in India to reserve jobs for locals in all private industries after the assembly passed the Andhra Pradesh Employment of Local Candidates in Industries/Factories Act, 2019, which reserves 75 per cent jobs in industrial units, factories, joint ventures and ...

Union Minister Harsh Vardhan launches next-generation DNA sequencing facility in Hyderabad. Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) facilityis the fourth such facility in the country, which can sequence 30 human genomes a day. It costs around ₹1 lakh to sequence one genome using this facility. ...

Motihari-Amlekhgunj petroleum products pipeline between India and Nepal have successfully concluded the ‘testing transfer’ of the Rs 325 crore. Along with reducing the huge transportation cost for the landlocked country, the commercial operation of the oil project will also ensure reduction in ...

Kalraj Mishra sworn in as the new governor of Himachal Pradesh in a ceremony at the Raj Bhawan here on July 22. He replaced Acharya Devvrat, who has been shifted to Gujarat. Mishra, 78, had resigned from the Narendra Modi-led government as Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in ...

Maharashtra become tops in ATM frauds, reported 233 cases in 2018-19, the highest in the entire country, Reserve Bank Of India (RBI) data, accessed by TOI, revealed. The data showed that Delhi grabbed the second spot with 179 cases, followed by Tamil Nadu with 147 cases of ATM fraud. Daily ...