On Saturday, Union Road Transport & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari was addressing the gathering in an industry summit on 'The Emerging New Growth Paradigm', organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry in Bengaluru. Here, the minister told that Indian Government has planning of developing 12 expressways across India and 2 lakh km of highways. The
On Friday, Indian Government has sent a notice to Cambridge Analytica company and asked its response regarding Facebook users’ data breach by March 31. In this issued notice, the company was asked about its involvement in the illegal breach in Indian Facebook users’ profiles to influence their voting behaviour. This notice also has a question
NEW DELHI: The government entered into a new row with Congress on Wednesday. The ruling party accused that the Congress party has been in touch with the data firm, Cambridge Analytica with the motive of influencing the elections in the country. The government also warned the social media giant, Facebook. The union law and IT
Recently, the BJP president has been going around giving statements on various headline-making issues. Even after facing the setback of losing so many seats in the recent UP by polls Amit Shah is in pretty high spirits as he claimed that this setback will not hold them back and in the soon-to-come elections, BJP will
NEFIS had called a Candle Light March at Art Faculty, Delhi University on March 19, 2018. Hundreds of students and concerned organizations participated in this march titled 'North-East People's Lives Matter'. North-East Forum for International Solidarity called this candle march to raise the demand of justice for Pravish Chanam. Pravish Chanam, a Manipuri youth was
While addressing the Parliament House, Union minister Hansraj Gangaram Ahir told that the government has not even thinking about amendments in AFSPA. Hence, there is no chance of withdrawal of this Act. Various organizations in Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir region have this demand of withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1990. This
A team of officials from NITI Aayog are studying the topic, “explore uses of Blockchain Technology in governance”. This study will act as a new framework for the ministries in central government as well as state governments to adopt this technology. This group has worked out many areas in which existing government system can use
AAP leader had called Nitin Gadkari as one of the most corrupt politicians of India. Arvind Kejriwal did this in various public meetings. He had done the same with on many occasions. As a result, Nitin Gadkari and Kapil Sibal had filed defamation cases against him. After few dates of the hearing in these cases,
Surprising facts are coming from the recent Global Tobacco Atlas study for India. Yes, it is true that we have remarkably lowered down tobacco use in recent years. Yet, this country holds an economic cost of smoking, 1,818,691 million rupees. This cost is inclusive of both direct cost over healthcare and also indirect cost of
As per a report shared by the Word Bank, GST is having the second highest tax rate in the world. This is the most complex tax structure among 115 countries having a similar sort of indirect tax structure. There are several exempted sales in GST structure and also few exports are rated to zero tax,
