-The Times of India BHOPAL: Challenging the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines, which are used during polling to verify that the vote cast by a person goes to the correct candidate, would land a person in jail, if it is found that the machine is working fine. The issue has come to light as the election commission is planning to make the people in MP aware of the machine...
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Onion prices fall 35% after I-T raids on Nashik traders
-The Times of India NASHIK: The average wholesale onion price fell by 35% at the country's largest wholesale onion market at the Lasalgaon Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) on Thursday after the income tax department carried out surveys and searches in the offices, godowns and homes of seven onion traders in Nashik district of Maharashtra. After the sudden crash in wholesale onion prices, farmers stopped the auction at Lasalgaon and did...
More »Uneven Mandi tax adds to GST burden -Madhvi Sally
-The Economic Times Even as the dust kicked up by the Goods and Services tax is yet to settle, traders and companies have to face another conundrum an uneven mandi tax. So wide is the discrepancy that a company procuring grain had to pay 6 per cent tax in Punjab, 4 per cent in Haryana and 0.2 per cent in Madhya Pradesh. Industry says this will create an imbalance in the interstate...
More »CBSE orders psychometric test of all school staff -Sumaiya Yousuf
-The Times of India BHOPAL: Breaking its silence five days after the murder of a child at Ryan International School in Gurugram, the CBSE on Wednesday announced that the onus of safety of students on campus lies solely with school authorities. The CBSE said this in response to a Supreme Court query in the aftermath of the Gurugram school murder. On Wednesday, the board sent a circular on 'safety of children' to...
More »After floods, 235 districts face drought in country -Amit Bhattacharya
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Around 235 districts across the country face the prospect of drought this year as the monsoon appears headed for a below-normal performance, with the season's deficit currently at 6.2% of normal. These districts, accounting for 37% of India's 630 districts for which rain data is available, have monsoon shortfall of at least 20%, with nine show acute deficits of 60% or more, data from the India...
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