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Tax payers ignorance costs Rs 660 crore to government every year: TaxSpanner Report-Vidyalaxmi

-The Economic Times More than 94% of employees in India do not report income from other sources. This causes a loss of approximately Rs 660 crore to exchequer annually, says a report by TaxSpanner.com, a tax filing online portal. "More than 94 per cent of employees - liable to pay more than 10 per cent of their taxable income as tax - do not report income under the head, "Other Sources"," the...

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Standing on the threshold of Food Justice in India

-Oxfam India Oxfam India launches food justice bulletin along with the Institute of development Studies (IDS), calls for assessing government's commitment to hunger Despite enormous growth in economic and political power, 46 per cent of Indian children are malnourished, and 1 in 3 of the world’s hungry live in India. Yet India stands on the threshold of potentially the largest step toward food justice the world has ever seen, as the National...

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Veteran social activist Mrinal Gore passes away

-The Hindu Veteran socialist Mrinal Gore, known for her dauntless activism on the issues of price rise, water rights and women’s empowerment, passed away following cardiac arrest at Vasai, Thane district on Tuesday. She was 84. “For the past 10 days she was at my house,” said daughter Anjali Vartak. “She had suffered a bronchitis attack and was on ventilator. She was feeling weak. She had fever too. Today [on Tuesday] she was...

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Everyone forgets the surrogate-Brinda Karat

-The Indian Express Government must bring the assisted reproductive technologies bill to Parliament. More stringent regulation could have saved lives Sushma Pandey, just 17 years old, reportedly died due to procedures related to egg harvesting conducted on her by a fertility clinic in Mumbai. Two years after her death, the Bombay high court did well to criticise the police for not prosecuting the hospital for its flagrant violation of the age requirement...

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Maharashtra Bill provides for India’s first real estate regulator-Makarand Gadgil & Madhurima Nandy

-Live Mint The Maharashtra Housing Regulation and Development Bill passed by the state assembly on Monday paves the way for the establishment of the country’s first regulator for the housing sector. The Bill, which now goes to the state legislative council, aims to bring about transparency in the real estate sector and empower homebuyers. It also attempts to demystify some of the popular and often misused terms used in the sector, such...

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