News Highlights: All Odisha schools to remain shut on April 19, 20 due to heatwave

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Income Tax department junks reports claiming plans to overhaul capital gains tax laws

Terming existing tax rules as “not progressive” the said report had quoted sources as saying that a panel may be appointed to build on proposals submitted to the Finance Ministry in 2019 with an eye to implementing it in 2024... Read More

Congress announces seven more candidates for Karnataka assembly polls, fields ex-CM Jagadish Shettar from Hubli-Dharwad Central.

All government, government-aided, and private schools up to Class 12 along with all anganwadi centres in Odisha shall remain closed on April 19 and 20 due to prevailing heatwave conditions.

Mumbai Indian scores 192/5 in 20 overs against SunRisers Hyderabad.

“Former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah from the Congress party withdrew cases against the PFI, released 1,700 PFI activists from jail...Siddaramaiah is their patron...,” said BJP chief JP Nadda.

Members of theLGBTQshouldn't be stigmatised, but be assimilated with society, petitioner argues before SC during same-sex marriagehearings.

US FDA completes inspection at Piramal Pharma Sellersville manufacturing unit.

Electric vehicle industry body SMEV on Tuesday appealed to a parliamentary panel to direct the government to release the pending subsidy of Rs 1,200 crore earmarked for the liquidity-hit sector. In a petition to the Parliamentary Standing Committees on Industry and Estimates, the Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles (SMEV) stated that EV adoption is slowing down due to the financial stress being faced by the industry.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday attached properties to the tune of Rs 11.04 crore belonging to Congress MP Karti Chidambaram in the INX money laundering case, an official statement said here. The ED said that out of four attached properties, one is an immovable asset located in Coorg district of Karnataka.

Earlier today, Bloomberg reported thatIndia is eying a higher capital gains tax for the rich to curb inequality. The Income Tax Department denied the reports in a tweet

The very notion of a man and a woman is not "an absolute based on genitals", the Supreme Court said on Tuesday while discussing the ambit of gender and whether it expanded beyond the biological sex of a person. In a day-long hearing on the pleas seeking legal validation for same-sex marriages, a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud took note of submissions in favour and against the petitions, and one of them was that even the Special Marriage Act has terms like "a man and a woman"and hence using term "person" instead may unsettle existing statutes.