Islamabad, Mar 20 (PTI) Pakistan on Sunday signed an agreement with a Canadian company to develop one the world's largest gold and copper mining projects in the country’s restive Balochistan province. Popularly known as the Reko Diq project in Chagai area of the province, the project would be developed by the Barrick Gold Corporation of [...]
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) India and Australia are on course to ink an early harvest trade deal by end of this month while Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to unveil a Rs 1,500-crore investment package to boost the bilateral ties at a virtual summit with PM Narendra Modi on Monday. The likely [...]
Srinagar, Mar 20 (PTI) A 36-member delegation from the gulf countries has arrived in Jammu to explore investment opportunities in the union territory, officials said on Sunday. The delegation arrived following an invitation by J-K Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha at the Dubai Expo in January this year, the officials said. The delegation includes top businessmen [...]
Dubai, Mar 20 (PTI) The code of ethics for news publishers, over-the-top (OTT) platforms and digital media has helped in bringing about "a lot of discipline" in the sector, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Joint Secretary Vikram Sahay said on Sunday.The joint secretary was speaking at a roundtable on news broadcasting at the India Pavilion [...]
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) The Income Tax department has detected "undisclosed" income of more than Rs 224 crore after it recently raided Maharashtra-based unicorn start-up Infra.Market, officials said on Sunday. The searches were launched on March 9 at the firm's 23 premises in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The CBDT [...]
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) Maize exports increased by over 28.5 per cent to USD 816.31 million during April-January this fiscal, against USD 634.85 million in the same period last financial year, the commerce ministry said on Sunday.Neighbouring countries like Bangladesh and Nepal are the major importers of maize from India, it added.Bangladesh has imported [...]
Led by Maharashtra, the cumulative revenue collection from stamp duty and registration fee of all the states jumped to Rs 1,00,100 crore for the first eight months of the current fiscal year, which for the entire FY21 was Rs 1,27,700 crore, according to a report. An analysis of state-wise data by Motilal Oswal Financial Services [...]
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) The price of diesel sold to bulk users has been hiked by about Rs 25 per litre in line with a near 40 per cent rise in international oil prices, but retail rates at petrol pumps remain unchanged, sources said. Petrol pump sales have jumped by a fifth this month [...]
New Delhi, Mar 20 (PTI) The Income Tax department is working to improve the "abysmally poor" tax literacy in the country so that the number of tax paying people and entities can be increased leading to enhanced collections, CBDT Chairman J B Mohapatra has said.He said the direct tax establishment -- the government authority that [...]
The Income Tax department has detected undisclosed income of about Rs 224 crore after it recently raided a unicorn start-up group based in Pune and Thane in Maharashtra, the CBDT said on Sunday. The searches were carried out on March 9 at 23 premises in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The [...]
