-The Indian Express Former Union Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday argued against the move to make Aadhaar mandatory, saying the data collected for it was prone to misuse in the world of information technology. “In the era of information technology, the question of possibility of misuse is not just a possibility. It will be misused,” the senior advocate told a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India...
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Don't have records of Vijay Mallya's loans: Finance ministry to CIC
-PTI Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, during a debate on demonetisation in the Upper House on November 17, 2016, had termed the loan issue of Vijay Mallya a "terrible legacy" that the NDA government had inherited from the previous UPA regime. The finance ministry has told the Central Information Commission (CIC) that it does not have information about the loans given to industrialist Vijay Mallya, prompting the transparency panel to remark that the...
More »Don't believe the BJP and Congress claims that they're cleaning up poll funding -Milan Vaishnav
-ThePrint.in The larger lesson is clear: in an era when the Congress & the BJP can agree on next to nothing, they will gladly join hands to save their own skin. Among all the talk of the aam aadmi focus emerging from last week’s Budget, many people may have missed one of its most self-serving acts. This manoeuvre found no mention in the Union Finance Minister’s presentation itself, but was instead buried...
More »Fabindia sued for Rs 525 crore by Khadi commission for using the 'khadi' tag 'illegally'
-PTI The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) has sent a legal notice to Fabindia, a chain of ethnic wear retail outlets, demanding a whopping Rs 525 crore in damages for 'illegally' using its trademark 'charkha' and selling apparels with the 'khadi' tag. The KVIC, according to the legal notice, has also threatened to launch legal proceedings against Fabindia Overseas Pvt. Ltd. if it does not desist from displaying the trademark...
More »Richest companies have the lowest tax liability -Tina Edwin
-The Hindu Business Line They milk tax breaks in ways that smaller firms can’t, paying only 23.9% tax on average New Delhi: India’s most profitable companies paid 23.9 per cent tax on an average on their profits for financial year 2016-17, about 10.7 percentage points lower than the statutory rate of 34.6 per cent, helped by a wide range of concessions and incentives, the latest Budget documents show. These companies, 335 in all,...
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