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New Delhi, June 24: BJP and Congress on Thursday hit out at the AAP government for hiring a Public Relation agency to publicise its works, saying it was ‘wasting’ public money for ‘image makeover’. “Instead of Spending on Public Welfare-AAP Government spends Tax-Payers money for Professional help to build image! (sic),” Ajay Maken, president of Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee (DPCC) tweeted. BJP

Tashkent, Jun 23: As India makes a strong bid for membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today met Chinese President Xi Jinping and is understood to have sought China's support for it, seen as very crucial to take forward the process. The outcome of the meeting between Modi and Xi here will determine proceedings at the two-day plenary meeting of the atomic trading

New Delhi, Jun 23: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today left for Tashkent where he will attend the SCO Summit and meet some world leaders like the Chinese President with whom the NSG issue will figure prominently in the talks. In the two-day summit, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will kick off the process of India's accession to the grouping as a full-fledged member along with Pakistan

Gurgaon, Jun 22: Hotting up the low-fares war among airlines, SpiceJet today rolled out a new scheme offering base costs as low as Rs 444 on some destinations on its domestic network with a select booking period and limited number of seats. No sooner did the no-frills carrier announce its 'Monsoon Bonanza Sale', flyers' body Air Passengers Association of India (APAI) wrote to aviation regulator

New Delhi, Jun 22: BJP today said it does not agree with its Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy's criticism of Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian and termed it as "completely his personal opinion". "The party does not agree with his views. This is completely his personal opinion," its national secretary Shrikant Sharma told a press conference after Swamy demanded that the CEA be sacked

New Delhi, Jun 22: Staying true to his promise of training guns on bureaucrats 'loyal' to the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Subramanian Swamy on Wednesday said that he wants Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian to be sacked, as he had badmouthed India in the international arena and had also encouraged the grand old party to become rigid on their GST Bill clauses. Speaking to

Sriharikota (AP), Jun 22: Setting a record in its space programme, India today successfully launched 20 satellites, including its earth observation Cartosat-2 series, in a single mission on board ISRO's workhorse PSLV-C34 from the spaceport here. In a precision launch, PSLV-C34 took off from the second launch pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre here, about 110 km from Chennai at 9.26 AM and placed

New Delhi, Jun 21: India-born Softbank President and COO Nikesh Arora has resigned from the company with effect from June 22 but will stay in advisory role for a year. "SoftBank Group Corp (SBG) announces the resignation of Nikesh Arora, Representative Director, President & COO, from the position of Representative Director and Director of SBG with the expiration of the term of office at the

New Delhi, Jun 21: Officials have been directed not to shy away from the rare provisions of arrest, detention and auctioning of attached assets of wilful income tax defaulters. The Central Board of Direct Taxes, in a strategy paper for the current fiscal, has directed officials in the tax department to use the rarely-used in this regard. For wilful evasion of taxes, Section 276 C (2) of the IT Act

New Delhi, Jun 21: In order to cripple and check the activities of wilful tax defaulters, the Income Tax department has decided to "block" Permanent Account Number (PAN) of such entities, get their LPG subsidy cancelled and take measures to ensure that they are not sanctioned loans. A number of such measures have been mooted by the tax department, to be undertaken this financial year, in order to