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New Delhi, Mar 4: With petrol and diesel prices skyrocketing, the Centre is likely to cut excise duty by up to Rs 5 and exhort BJP-ruled states to match it by slashing local taxes on both transport fuels. The move may be announced ahead of Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry. Elections in these states will begin from March 27. Excise duty on petrol was

New Delhi, Mar 4: The Government of India has agreed to provide relief from double taxation to Indians living abroad who had to stay in India beyond their tax exemption stay limit on account of disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. India’s Central Board of Direct taxes (CBDT) had received many representations requesting for relaxation in determination of residential status for the financial

The Saudi Arabia government has decided to make it mandatory for Hajj pilgrims to take anti-coronavirus vaccine. According to Saudi health ministry officials, taking COVID-19 vaccine has been made compulsory for those arriving in the country to perform the Hajj this year. People who don't comply to the rule will not be allowed to perform Hajj. "The Covid-19 vaccine is mandatory for those willing

New Delhi, Mar 3: The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday won four of the five wards in the bye-polls to Delhi Municipal Corporation. The Congress won the one remaining seat. Voting was held in two wards – Rohini-C and Shalimar Bagh (North) – in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation, and three wards – Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and Chauhan Banger – in the East Delhi Municipal Corporation on February 28. The

Washington, Mar 3: Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said that the law enforcement agency classifies the deadly January 6 Capitol riot by former President Donald Trump's supporters as domestic terrorism. "That attack, that siege, was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it's behaviour that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism," Wray said at a hearing

New Delhi, Mar 2: "From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof," said the Additional Sessions Judge of a district court in Delhi, quoting Russian Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, while dropping charges of attempt to murder against two accused in the Delhi riots case. Additional Sessions Judge Amitabh Rawat made the observation on Monday while hearing an

Amroha, Mar 2: In an unexpected development, dairy farmers in three villages in Amroha district have stopped supply of milk to the cooperative societies to express their solidarity with the farmers' movement. The dairy farmers have also announced that from March 6, they will sell milk at Rs 100 per litre. At present, their supply is sold at Rs 35 per litre. State president of Bharatiya Kisan Union

Hathras, Mar 2: A rape accused, who was out on bail, has allegedly shot dead the victim's father. Gaurav Sharma, the accused, was jailed for a month in 2018 after a molestation case was filed against him by the woman's father. He was granted bail by a local court after a month. An argument took place on Monday evening between the family of the survivor and the accused outside a village temple

Geneva, Mar 2: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that it is "unrealistic" to expect the COVID-19 pandemic to be over by the end of 2021. "I think it will be very premature, and I think unrealistic, to think that we're going to finish with this virus by the end of the year," Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO's Health Emergencies Program, said at a press conference here on

Kannur, Mar 2: Normal life was affected in Kerala during the initial hours of Tuesday as a dawn-to- dusk motor strike, called by a joint committee of various trade unions to protest the spiralling fuel price in the country, began. State-run KSRTC buses did not operate while taxies, auto-rickshaws and private buses remained off the roads across the state since the agitation began by 6.00 am