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Women across Iceland, including the prime minister, went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence

Dividend stock 2023: In this truncated week on Dalal Street, Infosys shares would be in focus today as the Indian IT major is going to trade ex-dividen today. The board of directors of Infosys Ltd has already declared ₹18 per share interim dividend for its eligible shareholders payable during the current fiscal. The company board also fixed Infosys dividend record date on 25th October 2023.

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NEW DELHI : The number of persons reporting zero-tax liability for their previous year’s income continued to climb, with 44.6 million tax returns, or two-thirds of all 2021-22 assessment year filings, making this claim, according to data available from the income tax department. This represents a 4% increase in zero-tax returns filed in 2021-22 from the previous assessment year, despite the overall income of individuals and businesses growing by more than 14% in the tax returns filed in 2021-22, according to official data from the tax department.

Iceland's prime minister and women across the volcanic island nation went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence. Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir said she would stay home as part of the «women's day off,» and expected other women in her Cabinet would do the same. «We have not yet reached our goals of full gender equality and we are still tackling the gender-based wage gap, which is unacceptable in 2023,» she told news website mbl.is.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday said the Manipur violence was orchestrated, and blamed «outside forces» for the situation in the north eastern state. "Meiteis and Kukis were living together for a long time there. It is a border state.

supply chains on China. The Niti Aayog has been tasked with drawing up the strategy, which will focus on bridging the country's trade deficit with its neighbour over time and suggest measures to secure supply chains from risks stemming from geopolitical developments. Near-shoring, friend-shoring and localisation have gained traction globally post-Covid, with many countries looking to de-risk supply chains and reduce sourcing ties with China. The Aayog will firm up its action plan recommending policy interventions needed in the form of tariff and non-tariff barriers as well as changes to the regulatory framework, said a senior government official with knowledge of the matter. Focused Intervention As part of the exercise, the Niti Aayog will rope in a consultancy firm to review India-China trade, with its report expected in six months.

Torrent Pharma’s bid to acquire the stake of the promoter, the Hamied family, in Cipla has stalled over valuation differences, said people with knowledge of the matter. That has derailed plans to create one of India’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, at least for now. The third generation of the Hamied family had been in discussions with their counterparts, the Sudhir and Samir Mehta family of Torrent Pharma. Negotiations have been suspended by mutual agreement and may be revived later, said the people cited. The bid-ask gap is 15-20%, which appears to stem from the surge in Cipla shares since news of a potential stake sale by the Hamieds became public.

Iceland is often touted for its gender equality, topping the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index for 14 years, but women across the country are set to strike this week in a protest against employment inequality and the gender pay gap.

aviation regulator has suspended operations of Redbird Flight Training Academy, taking action against India's largest flight training school after its aircraft was involved in a fifth serious incident in the past six months. «This is the fifth accident of your academy in the past six months, pertaining to engine failure or other maintenance issue,» said an order issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), after a training aircraft of the academy, on October 22, was forced to make an emergency landing in a field shortly after taking off from its centre at Baramati. «The DGCA will carry out an audit of the maintenance practices carried out by your organisation and proficiency checks of your instructors and designated examiners.» The emergency landing was reported just three days after another incident involving the academy aircraft on October 19. Redbird Aviation has bases in Baramati, Gulbarga, Lilalbari, Belgaum and Seoni in India, and one in Sri Lanka.

middle class is «more and more apparent» under the Modi government, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Monday said analysis of income tax returns from 2013-14 to 2021-22 «confirmed» increasing income inequalities in the country. The analysis of income tax returns reveals a widening gap between the ultra-rich and the middle class during the tenure of the Modi government. The data speaks volumes--during the financial year 2013-14, the top 1 per cent of income taxpayers collectively accounted for 17 per cent of all income, Jairam Ramesh claimed in a post on X (formerly Twitter). Fast forward to 2021-22, and that same elite group was responsible for a staggering 23 per cent of the nation's income, he claimed. «An analysis of the publicly available data on income tax returns for the period 2013-14 to 2021-22 confirms one of the essential themes of the Bharat Jodo Yatra--that of increasing income inequalities.

concessional tax rate of 15% to domestic infrastructure companies and non-corporate taxpayers like LLPs and trusts, exemption from withholding tax on payment of interests on overseas bonds having longer maturity period than 5 years and allowing carry forward and set off of business losses for service industry are some of the prominent direct tax proposals by industry for the Vote on Account. Currently companies set up after October 1 get a concessional tax rate of 15% which are engaged in the business of manufacture or production of an article or things, including generation of electricity. However this concessional tax rate is not available to the domestic companies engaged in the infrastructure sector.

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The run-up in yields on the 10-year Treasury bond, seen as a safe-haven in times of economic uncertainty and a benchmark for borrowing costs around the world, has been driven by investors pricing in stronger U.S. growth as well as fiscal slippage. Yields at the long-end rose quickly after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week that the U.S.

Congress on Monday charged that the gap between the ultra-rich and the middle class in the country is widening under the Modi government. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said an analysis of the publicly available data on income tax returns for the period 2013-14 to 2021-22 confirms one of the essential themes of the Bharat Jodo Yatra — that of increasing income inequality. «The widening gap between the ultra-rich and the middle class under the Modi government is more and more apparent,» he said in a post on X.

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E[co]work has launched a first-of-its-kind co-working space in NCR’s Ghaziabad region for microentrepreneurs, dismantlers, and recyclers in the e-waste sector in a bid to institutionalize e-waste management. The licensed facility is equipped with dismantling units, storage spaces, tables, tools, office and meeting rooms, equipment, and washrooms to offer the informal e-waste sector a space dedicated to dignifying and formalizing their work.

Bajaj Holdings & Investment Ltd. rose 1.09 per cent to Rs 7130.7 at 10:10AM hours (IST) on Monday. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap down start to the session.

The rapid evolution of the crypto landscape has recently taken another exciting turn, as gaming giant Roblox has expanded its payment options by integrating Ripple (XRP). While this significant partnership hints at the increasing mainstream acceptance of top crypto coins, two other top altcoins – Klaytn (KLAY) and InQubeta (QUBE) are garnering significant traction in the crypto community.