The empowered committee of state finance ministers on Monday said the Value-added Tax will be implemented from April 1, 2005, even if Uttar Pradesh does not fall in line.
Ravi Kant Shukla of Uttar Pradesh will lead India Under-19 team against Australia in a five-match ODI series
Sony Entertainment Television is understood to have approached the government for permission to acquire SET Satellite Singapore and consequently hike its total foreign shareholding to about 90 per cent.
Seeking to allay fears of the trading community, the Empowered Committee on Value Added Tax on Thursday said there would no 'inspection raj' when the new state-level tax regime comes into effect from April 2005.
Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag will lead India Seniors, India A and India B respectively in the tournament, in Mumbai from February 7 to 10.
The meeting of the Empowered Committee of Finance Ministers of States and Union Territories began with some states demanding that they be allowed to charge service tax on certain items pending a decision on the implementation of VAT.
Mass agitations are not particularly uncommon in India. But a mass agitation led by an environment-related issue that has gone out of hand is not something that can be easily recalled.
All India Trade Union Congress General Secretary Gurudas Dasgupta said the Common Minimun Programme was 'inadequate' and not 'acceptable'.
Bard of Blood works up several moments of intrigue and drama but falls short of culminating into a satisfying watch, says Sukanya Verma.
Enterprise software maker Oracle said on Monday it will continue to hire aggressively in India at the rate of 250 people a month.
The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on Friday, by a majority judgement of 2:1, dismissed the petition filed by cellular operators challenging government's decision.
The growing rift among the Board members of National Cricket Academy (NCA) came out in the open on Monday with a key functionary questioning the "restructuring policy" as well as the working procedure at the academy.
Rohan Gavaskar has been drafted into the squad as his replacement.
Petronet LNG Ltd, which completed construction of India's first LNG import terminal at Dahej in Gujarat, announced on Monday that it will float an initial public offering of 26.10 crore
The Kolkata giants will leave on July 28 to participate in Leicester City's 120th anniversary celebrations.
Operations in refineries, pipelines, production units and commercial offices of public sector oil companies were on Tuesday affected due to a day-long strike by about 300,000 workers protesting Centre's move to divest.
'Even among scientists and technology mavens -- typically communities that tend to view the world through the lens of logos or reason and not mythos, there is a shiny-eyed enthusiasm for the mythical world,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
The charity match between Ricky Ponting led World XI and Sourav Ganguly's Asian XI will be shown 'live' on SET MAX.
The government has agreed to restore the employee provident fund interest rate to 9.5 per cent from the present interim 8.5 per cent for this fiscal before the next Budget, Communist Party of India MP Gurudas Dasgupta claimed on Thursday.
The severity of air pollution and dense Smog cover in the capital on Sunday led to the cancellation of the Ranji Trophy encounter between Bengal (rpt Bengal) and Gujarat at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium on the second day itself. Both Bengal and Gujarat teams will be leaving Delhi on Monday for Kolkata and Ahmedabad respectively. The situation is not expected to improve for a few more days which effectively ruled out any chance of play. Match referee P Ranganathan, in consultation with BCCI and the respective state associations, decided that there is no point in waiting for two more days.
No arrests have been made, but police have cordoned off the area, sources said.
'This year, it may be pertinent to look at some of the myths that invoke her warrior form, where she manifests herself as Shakti, the underlying strength in all humanity,' says Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Petronet LNG Ltd will float an initial public offering of 261 million shares, representing 34.8 per cent of the total equity of the company, around mid-February, P Dasgupta, director (finance), PLL, said in New Delhi on Friday.
The empowered committee of state finance ministers for implementation of value added tax would meet in first half of January 2004, to decide on the implementation of the new tax system.
The opener scored 151 runs as Karnataka piled up 411 runs against Bengal.
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