Maruti Udyog Ltd, India's largest car-maker, has lowered prices between Rs 3,000 and Rs 5,000 on its cars following a reduction in the concessional central state tax offered by the Haryana government.
Tamil Nadu, with consecutive wins over Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, have dashed Mumbai's hopes of making it to the final
In the second match on Sunday night, Madhya Pradesh will take on Haryana. It is expected to draw a decent crowd even though there are no famous players in both sides.
The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting on Saturday chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh at the Secretariat, state's Revenue Minister Prem Prakash Pandey said.
Police, however, rubbished the criminal's claims, saying he was doing this for cheap publicity.
The phase out of Central Sales Tax, which is a major distortion in the way of smooth functioning of VAT system, will begin from Sunday, albeit a year after and in diluted form than envisaged originally.
Only if the script was better... Only if the film maintained the promise of its beginning... Only if situations weren't conveniently and easily resolved... Only if the director understood the potential of the story he had on his hands... Running Shaadi wouldn't be the morass of boredom it is. notes Savera R Someshwar.
'While the poor have little say in shaping India's intellectual or public discourse, they do have a significant role in deciding political outcomes,' points out Roshan Kishore.
It was disappointing for Jinson Johnson not to win the 800m but the 1500m Asiad champion was far from surprised that compatriot Manjit Singh pipped him for the top prize in his pet 800m event.
Hyderabad, the city which is the bone of contention between Telangana and the rest of Andhra Pradesh in the proposed bifurcation of the state, belongs to all Indians and not to any region in particular, Union Minister S Jaipal Reddy has said.
Maharashtra Police found over 300 migrant workers holed up inside two container trucks meant for carrying essential commodities from Telangana to Rajasthan.
The spotlight will be on Neeraj Chopra and Hima Das while Dutee Chand would look to prove a point when India's track and field athletes begin their campaign in the Asian Games in Jakarta on Saturday.
Nayar wrote that the central government should initiate steps to address the pending inter-state issues in the North East, especially the boundary dispute of Assam with Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
The former India captain scored an unbeaten 89 as Bengal beat Punjab by a four wickets in the Inter-State limited-overs' tournament.
The finance minister is "reasonably confident" that when it comes to the crunch, "it would be extremely difficult even for the Congress party to take a contrarian view" on the GST Bill.
Indian Airlines and Bank Sports Board crashed to humiliating 1-2 defeats in the Inter-Institution men's team championship quarter-finals at the 34th Senior National and Inter-State Carrom Championships.
Police recovered a mobile phone and a bag containing two pipe bombs and half a kilograms of explosive material.
Small and medium enterprises had complained of tedious compliance burden under the Goods and Services Tax
India can be rated as among the best performing economies in the world
Anju set a new meet mark of 6.53 metres at the 46th National Senior Inter-State Athletics championships.
Andhra Pradesh had not so far approached Tamil Nadu with any proposal and has not furnished any information on the project as required.
Four members of the Bengal Table Tennis girls team were physically assaulted at a guest house in Pondicherry.
There will be a dramatic alteration in the role the Centre and the states will play to shape India's fiscal and economic destiny, report Nitin Sethi and Ishan Bakshi.
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.
The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered four cases against some people in connection with the poaching of tigers in the Sariska tiger reserve.
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.
Defence lawyer Harshad Nimbalkar pleaded that since she was not obstructing the investigation and made herself available for questioning, besides suffering from diabetes and being HIV positive, her's was a fit case of granting bail.
'An athlete is never tension-free,' India's champion athlete tells Rediff.com's Laxmi Negi.
Uttar Pradesh beat Baroda by 102 runs, while Railways accounted for Bengal by 101, in the semis of the Inter-State Limited-overs tournament.
Last year's joint-winners Tamil Nadu lost to Railways by a single run in the quarter-finals of the Inter-State limited overs' tournament.
It is possible that the Centre has now become wiser and has decided to follow an allocation system which gives it more from Integrated GST and helps boost its revenues, says A K Bhattacharya.
A realistic assessment will tell us that not much has changed between India and Pakistan; the relationship remains as fraught as before with little prospect of reconciliation, notes Ajai Shukla.
In the biggest narcotic haul in Delhi in recent times, the Delhi police has seized heroin worth Rs 41 crore and arrested the alleged kingpin of an inter-state drug trafficking chain and his associate, a senior police official said on Thursday.
'The only idea -- the only idea -- of the shutdown was to buy time.'
They were adjudged best in the men's and women's categories respectively in the MetLife National Inter-State Senior Athletics Championship.
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There are also talks of branded garments being put under the luxury tax slab, which could be higher than 18 per cent.
One of her coaches who came to her rescue was also injured after being grazed by the dagger.
With a view to increase efficiency and competition in the power sector, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission on Monday allowed open access in transmission system to power generating and distributing companies with immediate effect.
