A suspected terrorist firing from an AK 47 rifle outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai.
India is rated as the fastest growing paper market on the back of a comparatively healthy GDP growth. The domestic paper industry is estimated to be around 10 million tonnes. Of this, the writing paper segment accounts for 3.8 million tonnes, packaging grade paper around 4.5 million tonnes, while the newsprint industry is about 1.7 million tonnes.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, who forced filmmaker Karan Johar to apologise for calling Mumbai 'Bombay' in his film, has attracted the ire of critics for calling the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus by its former name VT.The bustling terminus, designed by Frederick William Stevens, a consulting architect in 1887-1888, was renamed as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in 1996, but the abbreviation VT has stuck with most Mumbaiites and Raj proved he is no "At
A Mandoli-bound goods train had crossed Wadala station when three rear wagons of the trains derailed.
Kasab on Tuesday confessed before the court that he and his slain partner Abu Ismail were directed to start firing indiscriminately at CST, take hostages and attack those policemen who tried to rescue the hostages.
Maharashtra CM said a high-level committee will probe the circumstances under which the 40-year-old overbridge collapsed.
Scenes from a deserted Mumbai, something that most of us have never seen.
The commuters started protesting after a level-crossing gate signal caused a delay in suburban services of Central Railway by over 20 minutes early this morning.
Maharashtra has so far reported 54 cases of the Omicron variant. Out of these, 22 are from Mumbai, including cases found through screening at the international airport here, as per official data.
At a meeting of the Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, the Centre's plan to bring petroleum goods under GST regime was opposed.
Central Railway will run special trains from December 19 to December 30.
Abolition of CST will pave the way for an integrated Goods and Services Tax (GST) which will be introduced by April 1, 2010, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
President Ram Nath Kovind said the nation will always be grateful to the security personnel who laid down their lives in the line of duty.
Mumbai's CST, Halebidu and Amruthapura. Sudha Murty lists her selection of India's beautiful monuments.
GST is a landmark reform considering the sweeping changes it brings about in the indirect tax regime in India.
The seats would be on board its CST-100 spacecraft, which it is developing under NASAs push for commercial crew spacecraft. The CST-100 could carry seven people and fly on multiple launch vehicles.
Modern Love: Mumbai has a mostly good selection of stories, and unlike so many other OTT shows that seem to think profanity and sex depict modernity, this one can be watched with the family without any discomfort, observes Deepa Gahlot.
States' demand of compensation from Centre for loss of tax revenue not on agenda.
The Central Sales Tax is imposed by the Centre but revenue goes to the states.
Government introduced two Bills in Lok Sabha on Friday -- one seeking to phase out central sales tax in four stages and eventually abolish it in three years and another to give more operational flexibility to the Reserve Bank of India.
'Remembering the bravehearts and the innocent civilians who lost their lives'
The official panel on value added tax decided on Thursday to ask the Centre to cut Central Sales Tax, imposed on inter-state movement in goods, to three per cent from the current four per cent from October.
"Twelve years after India's worst terror attack on Mumbai, two Taj hotels -- Colaba and Bandra have received a terror threat from Karachi. "I have had detailed discussions on beefing up security arrangements with both Maharashtra DGP and Mumbai Commissioner of Police," Deshmukh said.
The empowered committee of state fnance ministers had recommended to the finance ministry that the Centre should provide direct budgetary support and transfer more services to states on account of the rate cut, sources said. States have refused to hike the value-added tax rate on more than 250 items like drugs, agricultural and industrial inputs from 4 per cent to 5 per cent to make up for revenue loss.
One person was killed and three others injured after five coaches of a suburban train derailed near Titwala in Thane district, railway authorities said.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said taxpayer base has almost doubled to 1.28 crore in four years of rollout of the historic tax reform and the enhanced GST mop up in the recent months should now be the "new normal". In a written message to tax officers on the fourth anniversary of GST rollout, she said implementing any reform of this scale in a large and diverse country like India can be highly challenging, but GST has brought about ease in taxpayer compliance and reduced common man's tax burden.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is meeting state finance ministers on Thursday to garner support for the Constitution Amendment Bill for a goods & services tax (GST), is likely to immediately dole out about Rs 13,000 crore (Rs 130 billion) in Central Sales Tax (CST) compensation to states.
Announcing yoga workshops with yogacharya Shameem Akthar, who has been trained with the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center.
At 5% customs duty, the govt will earn more than $3 bn
Official panel on Value Added Tax decided to defer the phase out of the Central Sales Tax from next month to April 2007 after its failure to arrive at an agreement with the Union Government.
Crisil said a complete phase out of CST is necessary.
All long distance trains from Mumbai remain cancelled: CR
The government on Wednesday said it would phase out Central Sales Tax by April 2007, a move that may lead Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states to reconsider their decision of not implementing value-added tax.
Delayed trains coupled with the long pending demand for Diva-CST local service led to a violent rail-roko agitation at Diva railway station near Thane on Friday morning, Government Railway Police said.
The Indian Railways has one of the busiest and largest railway networks in the world.
So far the company has sold about 80,000 units of Honda Amaze and 30,000 units of 4th generation Honda City.
A Kalyan-bound local train derailed near Masjid station in Mumbai on Wednesday morning, disrupting rail traffic on the suburban section of Central Railway.
They are evaluating realignment of warehouses and supply chains, besides exploring locations to set up hubs and shutting down some distribution centres
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