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The government on Thursday took the first step towards doing away with the contentious retrospective tax law of 2012, which was used to raise large tax demands on foreign investors like Vodafone and Cairn Energy, and blamed for vitiating India’s investment climate — less than a month after Cairn ...

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana is scheduled to hear on August 5 a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over ...

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is “still raging” in the country and is far from over, Lav Aggarwal joint secretary, Health Ministry, told a press conference on Tuesday. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram, Karnataka, Puducherry and Kerala have registered a rise in the ...

The Indian men’s hockey team captain Manpreet Singh on Sunday said his players “almost killed themselves” in their efforts to secure an Olympic semi-final berth after a gap of 49 years, heaping praise on their commitment during the 3-1 quarter-final win over Great Britain in Tokyo.The skipper said self-belief ...

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India N.V. Ramana will on August 5 hear a petition filed by senior journalists N. Ram and Sashi Kumar for an independent probe headed by a former or sitting top court judge into the mass surveillance of over 142 potential ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called upon people to pay tributes to soldiers who made the nation proud in 1999, a day ahead of Kargil Vijay Diwas on Monday. "It is only natural to be filled with emotions in respect for the one who raises the Tricolour for ...

The Manpreet Singh-led Indian men’s hockey team will start their much-awaited Olympic Games campaign as they take on New Zealand in their first Pool A match on Saturday. There is much hope riding on this team, which is seen as capable of finally ending India’s 41-year-old wait for a ...

NEW DELHI: The Olympics are here, but for a moment let's go back to the 1975 World Cup. The trophy had agonisingly slipped out of India's hands in the edition before this one (1973 - India lost to Netherlands on penalty strokes in the final). Ahead of the final ...

India are placed in Pool A at the Tokyo Olympics in a group that includes Australia – currently, the top-ranked team in world hockey – face eight-times Olympic gold medallists India, reigning Olympic champions Argentina as well as Oceania rivals New Zealand, Spain, hosts Japan.Here’s a brief look at ...

The Kanwar yatra in Uttar Pradesh has been cancelled this year, the State government said on Saturday evening.Decks seem to have been cleared for the elevation of former Punjab Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu as president of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) after All India Congress Committee (AICC) in charge ...