shameen Confident of meeting direct tax collection target for the current fiscal, the Finance Minister P Chidambaram Monday said the government will ensure stable tax regime and non-adversarial approach in revenue collection.
“We will ensure there is a stable tax regime, there are stable tax laws and everybody adopts a non-adversarial approach to tax collection,” he said after addressing Chief Commissioners and Directors General of Income Tax.
India lifted the Nehru Cup for the third consecutive time beating Cameroon 5-4 in a penalty shootout at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here Sunday.
Sunil Chhetri, Robin Singh, Denzil Franco, Mehtab Hossain and Clifford Miranda all scored from the spot while Thierry Makon struck the right-post to give India an unprecedented win.
In an end-to-end match which went into penalties, a valiant India held their more fancied opponents 2-2 in normal time.
The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has launched a mobile version of its website to help cellphone users seamlessly access information on the move.
“The URL of the mobile website is pib.Gov.In/mobile. Mobile users who want the full functionality and display of the regular website can access it through the URL pib.Gov.In,” a PIB official said.
The new site has been customised to display latest press releases on the home screen and offers links to other matters on the website, he said.
India is like the “historic father” of the Higgs boson project, the search for what could be the basic building block of the cosmos, says CERN chief Rolf-Dieter Heuer, ruing that Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose, from whose surname the word ‘boson’ is derived, did not get the Nobel Prize.
“India is like a historic father of the project. I am really very impressed seeing the immense talent pool that the country has,” the director general of CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research), the world’s premier particle physics laboratory.
Neha Dhupia says she has signed a Punjabi film with Jimmy Shergill and that she will be doing her first item song for another film.
“Yes I am. I am doing a Punjabi film with Jimmy Shergill called `Rangeeley` for which I am going to be shooting right now, I leave for a month,” the 32-year-old revealed at the Blenders Pride Fashion Preview Sunday.
Neha is also going to feature in a commercial Hindi film besides an item song as well.
Emraan Hashmi is on a roll post the critical and commercial success of films like `Shanghai`, `Jannat 2` and the actor says he wants to have a consistent run at the Box Office.
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In the recent past, Emraan has set the cash registers ringing with several hits like `Once Upon a Time in Mumbai`, `Murder 2`, `The Dirty Picture`, `Jannat 2`.
He has films with Karan Johar (untitled), Vishal Bhardwaj (`Ek Thi Daayan`), Rajkumar Gupta`s (`Ghanchakkar`) in his kitty.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who was shooting for Yash Chopra`s untitled directorial project in Kashmir, has wrapped up his schedule and says he is taking back home some important things that he learnt during his short sojourn in the valley.
SRK wrote on Twitter as he bid adieu to Pahalgham: “Leaving Pahalgham. Learnt life`s lesson in my forefathers land. Only beauty is not enuff, u gotta be tough too to survive. I will be, Insha Allah.”
The movie will see SRK as an army man and has actress Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma as his leading ladies.
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Noted singer and music composer Roop Kumar Rathod has said that items songs which were once used as a stepni have now become the main attraction in films.
The singer, who has given hits like `Sandese Aate Hain` from ‘Border’, `Maula Mere` from ‘Anwar’, `Tere Liye` from ‘Veer-Zaara’, said that the language in film songs are also going downhill and tends to have a negative impact on kids.
After Shah Rukh Khan, it is filmmaker-actor Farhan Akhtar who is heading to Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir for shooting for his upcoming film ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’. Going there brings back a lot of memories.
“Leaving for `Bhaag Milkha Bhaag` second schedule. To the heavenly location called Ladakh. Mind racing back to time spent there 10 years ago, filming `Lakshya`, tweeted the 38-year-old.
Scottish researchers have developed a new technique which they claim could pave the way for hip replacements that last a lifetime.
Researchers from Glasgow`s Southern General Hospital are developing prototypes of a new system that aims at combating problems of the body forming soft tissues around hip replacements.
The new technique coats key surfaces with a “nanopattern” pitted plastic to encourage stem cells to form bone in contact with the new joint, the BBC News reported.
Usually, a hip replacement needs to be changed every 15 years.
Pregnant women who are exposed to common environmental chemicals, especially polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs), have smaller babies at birth but larger at 20 months, according to an Emory University study.
PFCs, used in the production of fluoropolymers, are found widely in protective coatings of packaging products, clothes, furniture and non-stick cookware. They are persistent compounds found abundantly in the environment.
PFCs have been detected in human sera, breast milk and cord blood.
Going out for dinner with greedy friends who choose unhealthy dishes from a menu can cause you to put on weight, a new study has claimed.
Diners who choose unhealthy dishes from a menu can influence the food choices of those they are eating with, according the study by psychologists.
They found that people unconsciously mirrored the eating habits of the people they were with even if they were trying to diet, the Daily Telegraph reported.
In partial relief to the mining industry in Karnataka, the Supreme Court on Monday lifted the ban on iron ore in three districts of the state.
The apex court lifted the ban in A category mines in Bellary, Tumkur and Chitradurga districts after the court appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) recommended that mining leases, consisting of 21 operational and 24 non-operational, be allowed to carry out mining operations.
A girl from Alwar village in Rajasthan, who had been missing for past two months, has been found and was allegedly repeatedly raped and tortured by her two abductors, police said on Saturday.
The girl was abducted on June 23 by two youths from her village soon after she arrived here with a group of women for pilgrimage at Govardhan, they said.
Overseas investors pumped in close to Rs 11,000 crore in the Indian stock market in August – highest in six months – amid hopes of government initiatives on policy reforms and easing of monetary policy globally.
Thus, FII investment in the country’s equity market has reached Rs 63,070 crore so far this year, and Rs 24,518 crore in the debt market during the same period.
Led by state-owned energy major ONGC, the combined market capitalisation (m-cap) of top eight Sensex companies fell by Rs 30,004 crore last week.
TCS and ITC, however, saw rise in their market value.
RIL, ONGC, CIL, HDFC Bank, NTPC, Infosys, SBI and HUL, on the other hand, witnessed losses in a weak market during the week amid damp investor sentiment.
The BSE 30- scrip index, Sensex, fell about 2 percent during the trading week ended on Friday.
ONGC’s market cap slipped Rs 9,369 crore to Rs 2,36,259 crore. The company’s share price declined 3.81 percent during the week.
Senior Pakistani Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir has said that his faction has called off talks with the government for “playing tricks” with the militants.
“The government contacted me and some other Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan leaders through intermediaries several times but the contacts were suspended because government officials were not serious,” Faqir told PTI by phone from an undisclosed location.
“The Pakistani government is not independent in taking decisions as it is under US pressure. No one can refuse talks but the government has always tricked us,” he said.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain on Saturday expressed serious concern over the ongoing sectarian violence in the country, warning that it could lead to the breakup of Pakistan.
“If people are not provided protection, Pakistan will break into pieces. Christian, Barelvis, and Shias’ will demand a separate state for themselves,” warned London-based Hussain.
His comments came at a conference organised to promote harmony between different sects of Islam and other faiths.
In the wake of increasing insider attacks on NATO soldiers in Afghanistan, the commander of US special forces has suspended training for all new Afghan recruits until probe into their ties to insurgents is completed.
“We have a very good vetting process,” a senior Special Operations official told The Washington Post. “What we learnt is that you just can’t take it for granted. We probably should have had a mechanism to follow up with recruits from the beginning.”
Top-seeded Federer faced only a single break point in his 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over No. 25 Fernando Verdasco on Saturday and won it with the longest point of the match – a 20-stroke rally he captured by moving Verdasco back and forth on the baseline until the Spaniard finally sprayed a forehand wide.
The rest of the time, Verdasco found Federer doing an unusual amount of damage at the net, closing out 26 of 27 points from the front court. Federer added that effort to the 32 points he won in 47 trips to the net two nights earlier in a second-round win over Bjorn Phau.
The Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics (SINP) would take up with European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) chief Rolf-Dieter Heuer the case of sub-atomic particle boson, derived from an Indian scientist’s name, being rendered in lower case.
Heuer, director-general of the Geneva-based institute, would be on a two-day visit here from Sep 3 to address an international science conference organised by the Centre for Natural Sciences and Philosophy and the Critical Issues Forum. On Sep 4, he would also deliver a lecture at the SINP.
With the death of an 11-year-old boy in Kolkata, the dengue epidemic has claimed its third victim in the state, the health department said Saturday. The number of confirmed cases has gone up to 638.
“An 11-year-old boy has died of dengue in B.C. Roy Child hospital Saturday. The total toll of dengue deaths in the state is three. The number of confirmed dengue cases in West Bengal has gone up to 638,” said a health department statement.
Nine-year old Sreeja Das was the first dengue victim in the state.
The epidemic first struck in the second week of August.
Odisha government today did not rule out possibility of two persons being infected with the HIV after taking blood from state run blood banks.
“The state government is aware of the allegation of two persons being infected with HIV after taking blood from blood banks. One cannot rule out the possibility of infection due to use of contaminated needle at private hospital also,” Health Minister Damodar Rout said in the assembly.
Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who was voted best actor in a recent poll, doesn`t agree with the results as he feels every actor has his own place in Bollywood and it would be unfair to rank them.
“I want to know who does these polls. They have no truth in them. All actors have their own places in the industry. To choose one over the other is not fair,” Amitabh told reporters at an event of Parikrama Humanity Foundation here Saturday.
The 69-year-old says he wouldn`t want people to follow him, but if that`s still the case, he would like them to follow him in his punctuality.
Bollywood actress Kareena Kapoor, whose film ‘Heroine’ is set for a September release, Saturday said she was confident but not over-confident about it.
“I am not over-confident but quite confident and excited about the film,” she said at a promotional event, marking the film`s tie-up with clothing brand, Jealous 21, here.
Asked about she is jealous of in life, she said: “I am jealous of people who get to go on holidays, even though I go on many on my own. I love travelling. I am also jealous of people who get to eat whatever they want.”