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Documents you must keep handy to file income tax returns

Documents you must keep handy to file income tax returns

Rediff.com11 Jul 2022

The Income-Tax (I-T) Department nowadays provides pre-filled forms to make the filing of income-tax return (ITR) easier. Nonetheless, you must have a number of documents handy at the time of filing return so that you can cross-check the data in the pre-filled form. "Filing ITR doesn't require you to upload any document. But in case an assessing officer makes an inquiry, you will need to present documents and certificates as proof," says Deepak Jain, chief executive, TaxManager.in.

How UGC's 2-Degree Choice Will Help Students

How UGC's 2-Degree Choice Will Help Students

Rediff.com25 Apr 2022

The decision to allow students to pursue two degrees simultaneously will boost their employability as it gives them the opportunity to concentrate on one mainstream undergraduate degree while enrolling in another with a vocational focus.

Over Rs 86,600 crore fraud probe against Sahara

Over Rs 86,600 crore fraud probe against Sahara

Rediff.com3 Sep 2020

All four societies were under common management of the Sahara group and had collectively garnered Rs 86,673 crore, including more than Rs 47,000 crore collected by Sahara Credit Cooperative Society Ltd from nearly 4 crore depositors.

Veteran actor Shaukat Azmi passes away at 93

Veteran actor Shaukat Azmi passes away at 93

Rediff.com22 Nov 2019

Kaifi's acting credits include "Bazaar", "Umrao Jaan" and Mira Nair's Oscar nominated film "Salaam Bombay!".

From Jan 1, GST officials to make surprise recovery visits

From Jan 1, GST officials to make surprise recovery visits

Rediff.com23 Dec 2021

Come January and the government is empowered to send its recovery officials to your premises to collect GST without notice, if your tax liability shown in the requisite form is less than what invoices, mentioned in the outward supply form, should draw. The relevant provision in the Finance Act, 2021, will come into effect from January 1, 2022, according to a gazette notification issued on Tuesday. Under the GST system, there are two kinds of returns that a company is required to file monthly if its turnover is over Rs 5 crore annually. These are form GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B.

You lose more by deferring your EMIs for 3 months

You lose more by deferring your EMIs for 3 months

Rediff.com1 Apr 2020

In a note to customers, the country's largest lender State Bank of India said, 'Interest shall continue to accrue on the outstanding portion of the term Loan during the moratorium period'. The accrued interest will be collected by the lender in the form of additional EMIs from those borrowers who opt for the three-month moratorium.

The Day I Directed Amitabh Bachchan

The Day I Directed Amitabh Bachchan

Rediff.com17 Oct 2022

'This man changed the mindset of a generation.'

Police dept failure: Ajit Pawar on protest outside Sharad Pawar's house

Police dept failure: Ajit Pawar on protest outside Sharad Pawar's house

Rediff.com9 Apr 2022

Over 100 workers of the MSRTC had staged the protest outside 'Silver Oak', Pawar's bungalow on Pedder Road in south Mumbai on Friday afternoon, catching the police unawares.

Lessons from the Franklin fiasco

Lessons from the Franklin fiasco

Rediff.com27 Apr 2020

Taking credit risks in shorter-tenure funds can help jack up returns considerably, boosting sales.

Indians defer travel plans as Sri Lanka imposes curfew

Indians defer travel plans as Sri Lanka imposes curfew

Rediff.com4 Apr 2022

For Indians, Sri Lanka is one of the favourite venues for destination weddings. But last month, when a family from Delhi chartered a Vistara Airbus A320 to Colombo, it packed much more than the standard paraphernalia of clothes, gifts and jewellery. The family ferried meals from Delhi for all the guests and to cover their entire stay in Colombo due to the food and fuel shortages in the island nation.

Engineer turned cricketer is now an RCB fan favourite

Engineer turned cricketer is now an RCB fan favourite

Rediff.com6 Apr 2022

Shahbaz, one of the pillars of the Bengal Ranji Trophy side, is also an integral part of Royal Challengers Bangalore

SBI pegs Q4 GDP growth at 1.3%

SBI pegs Q4 GDP growth at 1.3%

Rediff.com25 May 2021

The country's GDP is likely to grow at 1.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2020-21 and may see a contraction of around 7.3 per cent for the full financial year, according to an SBI research report 'Ecowrap'. The e-National Statistical Office (NSO) will release the GDP estimates for the March 2021 quarter and provisional annual estimates for the year 2020-21 on May 31. "Based on our 'nowcasting model', the forecasted GDP growth for Q4 would be around 1.3 per cent (with downward bias) as against NSO (National Statistical Office) projection of a negative (-)1 per cent," the research report said.

Full Text: President Murmu's address to nation on Independence Day eve

Full Text: President Murmu's address to nation on Independence Day eve

Rediff.com14 Aug 2022

Here's the full text of the maiden address to the nation by President Droupadi Murmu on the eve of Independence Day 2022.

E-com sales may cross $9-bn GMV this season

E-com sales may cross $9-bn GMV this season

Rediff.com24 Sep 2021

E-commerce firms Amazon, Flipkart, and others are expected to witness blockbuster festival season sales of around $9 billion this year, surpassing pre-pandemic sales of $5 billion in 2019. The pandemic has accelerated the shift to e-commerce, with more consumers shopping online at a higher frequency than last year, observed analysts. This year's festival sales (gross merchandise value or GMV) are expected to grow 30 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to $4.8 billion during the first week of the season and potentially clock over $9-billion GMV during the whole festival month, revealed consulting firm RedSeer's e-commerce festival season report.

How Bollywood's writers are fighting back

How Bollywood's writers are fighting back

Rediff.com20 Feb 2020

'The writer remains the most creative force in the process.' 'Producers need to be inventive in how they reward good writing.'

GCA terminates tainted cricketer Gautam's contract

GCA terminates tainted cricketer Gautam's contract

Rediff.com7 Nov 2019

Gautam, a former Karnataka wicketkeeper-batsman, was earlier on Thursday arrested by the Bengaluru Central Crime Branch along with Abrar Kazi for allegedly accepting money to spot-fix in the scandal-ridden Karnataka Premier League (KPL).

Protest with woman's body against scam-hit Kerala co-op bank kicks up row

Protest with woman's body against scam-hit Kerala co-op bank kicks up row

Rediff.com29 Jul 2022

He also said a total of Rs 38.75 crore, deposited by people in the Karavannur Cooperative bank in this district, which is now facing charges, had already been returned.

MORE! MORE! Amitabh Magic, Right Here

MORE! MORE! Amitabh Magic, Right Here

Rediff.com14 Oct 2022

Sukanya Verma toasts the man, the movies and the many, many, MANY memories he's made on big screen through 80 Amitabh Bachchan moments.

India gets $1.75 bn World Bank loan for health, private investment

India gets $1.75 bn World Bank loan for health, private investment

Rediff.com1 Jul 2022

The World Bank has approved loans totalling $1.75 billion (about Rs 13,834.54 crore) to fund India's PM Ayushman Bharat scheme and private investment to boost the economic growth. Of the total loan, $1 billion will go towards the health sector, while the rest $750 million will be in the form of development policy loan (DPL) to fill the financing gaps through private sector investment in the economy. The World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved two complementary loans of $500 million each to support and enhance India's health sector.

RBI allows microfinance lenders to fix interest rates

RBI allows microfinance lenders to fix interest rates

Rediff.com14 Mar 2022

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Monday allowed microfinance lenders to fix interest rates on loans with a rider that those should not be usurious for the borrowers. A microfinance loan is defined as a collateral-free loan given to a household having an annual income of up to Rs 300,000. Each regulated entity (RE) should put in place a board-approved policy regarding pricing of microfinance loans, said the 'Master Direction - Reserve Bank of India (Regulatory Framework for Microfinance Loans) Directions, 2022'. In the past, the central bank used to announce the rates on quarterly basis.

Lanka protesters surround PM Mahinda's residence

Lanka protesters surround PM Mahinda's residence

Rediff.com24 Apr 2022

Thousands of Inter University Students' Federation (IUSF) students were seen sloganeering outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Wijerama Mawatha.

Moody's expresses doubts on higher revenue targets from tax, divestment

Moody's expresses doubts on higher revenue targets from tax, divestment

Rediff.com1 Feb 2021

Moody's Investors Service, while silent on the sovereign rating on the higher-than-expected fiscal deficit numbers, expressed doubts over attaining the higher revenue targets and divestment realisation as assumed in the Budget. The Union Budget 2021-22 has pegged a fiscal deficit of 9.5 per cent for the current financial year as against the consensus 7 per cent, and 6.8 per cent for 2021-22 with a market borrowing of around Rs 12 lakh crore. It also assumes Rs 1.75 lakh crore to be scooped up from divestment.

Franklin Templeton shuts 6 MF schemes. Should you worry?

Franklin Templeton shuts 6 MF schemes. Should you worry?

Rediff.com24 Apr 2020

Industry body Association of Mutual Funds in India on Friday assured investors that a majority of fixed income mutual funds assets are invested in superior credit quality securities and such schemes have appropriate liquidity to ensure normal operations. The statement by the industry body came after Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund voluntarily decided to wind up its six debt schemes citing redemption pressure and lack of liquidity in bond markets due to the coronavirus pandemic.

No penal/compound interest to be levied during loan moratorium: SC

No penal/compound interest to be levied during loan moratorium: SC

Rediff.com23 Mar 2021

The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the government and RBI's loan moratorium policy, and declined to extend the six-month loan moratorium period.

Tea Industry On Tenterhooks About Ukraine Conflict

Tea Industry On Tenterhooks About Ukraine Conflict

Rediff.com16 Mar 2022

Russia is among the top buyers of Indian tea, accounting for about 18 per cent of the industry's total exports.

Harbhajan credits Sachin, Sourav for 'playing big role' in career

Harbhajan credits Sachin, Sourav for 'playing big role' in career

Rediff.com9 Apr 2015

World Cup winning off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has admitted that he owes his success to the golden generation of Indian cricketers and said he was lucky to play under the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble.

Two years on, is Yes Bank finally out of the woods?

Two years on, is Yes Bank finally out of the woods?

Rediff.com5 Apr 2022

Transiting from "survival mode", which took most of the management time in FY21, the bank has been able to take a long-term view in terms of growth and preparing technology in the past 12 months.

Moody's ups India's FY22 growth projection to 13.7%

Moody's ups India's FY22 growth projection to 13.7%

Rediff.com25 Feb 2021

Moody's on Thursday upped India's growth projection for the next financial year beginning April 1, to 13.7 per cent, from 10.8 per cent estimated earlier, on the back of normalisation of activity and growing confidence in the market with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccine. For current fiscal, the US-based rating agency expects the economy to contract 7 per cent, lower than its previous estimate of 10.6 per cent contraction.

Economic recovery yet to attain durability: Icra

Economic recovery yet to attain durability: Icra

Rediff.com19 Jan 2022

Rating agency Icra on Wednesday said while there is some evidence of the economic recovery becoming broad-based in the third quarter of fiscal 2022, it is yet to attain the durability being sought by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) as a precursor to policy transmission. The agency expects the real GDP to expand 6-6.5 per cent year-on-year in the third quarter of FY2022 (+8.4 per cent in Q2 FY2022). It also sees the RBI maintaining the status quo in the upcoming monetary policy review to be held in February.

BharatPe co-founder Nakrani lauds board action on unseating Grover

BharatPe co-founder Nakrani lauds board action on unseating Grover

Rediff.com7 Mar 2022

BharatPe co-founder Shashvat Nakrani has accused Ashneer Grover, with whom he had co-founded the payment startup, of creating a false narrative about the company, and said the board acted quickly and decisively in unseating him after receiving finds of a PwC report. BharatPe, which allows shop owners to make digital payments through QR codes, last week stripped Grover of all titles and positions over his alleged "misdeeds" and may take further legal actions, including clawing back of some of his shareholding. In a letter to employees, Nakrani said the Grover episode was an aberration and not the norm at BharatPe, and went on to defend the board who he said were celebrated names in the banking and financial services industry.

4 senior citizens brought down realtor Supertech's big plans

4 senior citizens brought down realtor Supertech's big plans

Rediff.com1 Sep 2021

It was the relentless pursuit of justice over a decade by a group of senior citizens that resulted in the Supreme Court's order for demolition of the illegal 40-storey twin towers of a real estate group in Noida.

In Tharoor's Loss Lies His Win

In Tharoor's Loss Lies His Win

Rediff.com7 Oct 2022

The 136-year-old baby, argues Shyam G Menon, is taking a tiny step to tackling the biggest dread of old age: Change.

RBI buys record gold this year: At 700 tonnes, reserves up 27% in 2 years

RBI buys record gold this year: At 700 tonnes, reserves up 27% in 2 years

Rediff.com19 Aug 2021

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased its gold purchases, as part of its foreign exchange (forex) reserves. In the first half (H1) of calendar year 2021 (CY21), the addition of gold to India's forex reserves has been the highest - on a half-yearly basis -at 29 tonnes. Now, the RBI's gold holding - as a proportion of its forex reserves - has for the first time crossed 700 tonnes.

PPF: Why Timing Is Important

PPF: Why Timing Is Important

Rediff.com14 Apr 2022

While investing in PPF, investors must remember to put in the money at the right time to maximise the return they earn from it.

Franklin's voting process on six funds draws flak

Franklin's voting process on six funds draws flak

Rediff.com15 Jan 2021

There was no postal intimation to unitholders who didn't have a registered email address, according to a letter that Midas Touch Investors Association sent to Sebi.

'I am getting repeated mails from Income Tax department'

'I am getting repeated mails from Income Tax department'

Rediff.com29 Sep 2022

Mihir Tanna, Associate Director, S K Patodia & Associates, answers your tax queries.

'India needs 6 carriers like the Vikrant'

'India needs 6 carriers like the Vikrant'

Rediff.com2 Sep 2022

'... To ensure that the vast Indian Ocean Region remain peaceful.'

India's heaviest rocket blasts off with OneWeb India's 36 broadband satellites

India's heaviest rocket blasts off with OneWeb India's 36 broadband satellites

Rediff.com23 Oct 2022

The heaviest rocket of the Indian Space Research Organisation -- LVM3-M2/OneWeb India-1 -- blasted off from the Sriharikota spaceport on Sunday to place 36 broadband communication satellites into the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for a UK-based customer.

Lakshya creates history with maiden Super 500 title

Lakshya creates history with maiden Super 500 title

Rediff.com16 Jan 2022

India's Lakshya Sen secured his maiden Super 500 title by winning the Yonex-Sunrise India Open with a stunning straight-game victory over reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in the men's singles final in New Delhi on Sunday.