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New Delhi, Jun 1: Your restaurant and telephone bills or airline tickets will become costly from June 1, with imposition of Krishi Kalyan Cess (KKC) of 0.5% on all taxable services. The KKC will apply to all taxable services and central value added tax credit will be available to service providers on the cess paid on input services, said a government official. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in his

New Delhi, May 31: B S Bassi, who had a controversial tenure as Delhi Police Commissioner with frequent run-ins with the AAP government, was today appointed a member of UPSC, a Constitutional post, with a five year tenure. The Government cleared the name of 60-year-old Bassi as member of the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), which conducts the civil services examination to select IAS and IPS

Raebareli (UP), May 31: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today hit back at the government on the charges against her son-in-law Robert Vadra saying it's a part of a conspiracy of levelling false allegations in its bid for a "Congress- free" India." She dared the government to order an impartial probe if there is something in which she said the truth will come out. On a visit to her Parliamentary

Lucknow, May 31: About 2,000 Dalit cops whose promotion — granted during BSP's rule—was cancelled by the current Samajwadi Party government would be reinstated a move that will have political implications ahead of the 2017 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. During her tenure as UP CM, Mayawati had introduced a 'quota in promotion' scheme which was struck down by the Allahabad HC in 2011 but the

Nagpur, May 31: At least 17 security personnel, including two young Army officers, were today killed in a major fire that broke out at the central ammunition depot in Pulgoan early this morning. Two officers and 17 Defence Security Corp (DSC) jawans were injured in the blaze, some of them critically, an Army officer said. "The main fire at one of the sheds has been extinguished. The situation is

Chennai, May 30: A raid by authorities rescued 328 bonded labourers, including 106 children, from a brick kiln in Thiruvallur district in Tamil Nadu. The labourers rescued hail from Odisha and were allegedly made to work for 12 hours per day on a salary of Rs 20, officials said. The raid was conducted by a district administration team led by revenue official S Jayachandran on Saturday based on

Hyderabad, May 30: The federal front being mooted as an alternative to ruling NDA by JDU president and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is a "tried, tested and failed" front, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu has said. "First of all, we are seeing what is happening in Bihar. Once again, Bihar is pushed back to 'jungle raj'. There is widespread criticism. None of these leaders

New Delhi, May 29: Union Ministers M Venkaiah Naidu, Birender Singh, Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi are among the 12 candidates nominated by the BJP for the Rajya Sabha elections to be held on June 11. Naidu, Singh, Sitharaman, Goyal and Naqvi will be its candidates from Rajasthan, Haryana, Karnataka, Maharshtra and Jharkhand, a party statement said. Others fielded by the

Dehradun, May 29: Five more people were killed over the last 24 hours in Uttarakhand, as heavy rains triggered by a series of cloudbursts hit Tehri and Uttarkashi districts. Uttarkashi's Chinyalisaur area reported four fresh deaths. The toll in cloudburst now stands at six. Four persons, including three women, were swept in incidents of mudslide when a series of cloudbursts hit several villages in

New Delhi, May 29: Union Minister V K Singh today claimed the attack on African nationals in the national capital was a "minor scuffle" which was "blown up" by the media. "Had detailed discussion with Delhi Police and found that media blowing up minor scuffle as attack on African nationals in Rajpur Khurd," Singh, who is the junior minister in External Affairs Ministry, said and questioned the