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farmers, accompanied by Congress MPs from Haryana and Punjab, met Lok Sabha's Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in Parliament House on Wednesday and expressed unhappiness about the budget not announcing legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) for their products.

capital gains tax across asset classes has a positive effect in three areas. One, it lowers arbitrage among asset classes, such as equities, real estate and gold for household savings. Two, it addresses the differential in effective tax rates on labour and capital. And, three, it allows government tax revenue to grow without unduly affecting economic productivity. All these have long-term effects on economic growth and redistribution by influencing behavioural changes towards work, savings and risk-taking. The move also lowers the likelihood of asset price bubbles by encouraging freer capital movement. The markets have, thus, taken the changes announced in the budget in their stride, and the anticipated turbulence was weak and short-lived. Further steps to harmonise the tax treatment of capital gains are likely to be met with less anxiety by investors.

Paris Olympics medals tally, followed closely by Great Britain, whose medal prospects also look very high this time around.

India on Wednesday successfully flight-tested Phase-II Ballistic Missile Defence System from off the Odisha coast, the government said in a statement. The test demonstrated India's indigenous capability to defend against ballistic missiles of 5,000 km class, it said.

budget, highlighting the coalition compulsions of the NDA government, but not the special status that BJP's allies from the state have been demanding.

2024 Budget: The internet has erupted with a flood of memes following Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget announcement, which saw significant financial allocations for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka Cabinet that met on Monday night under the leadership of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has given its approval for adopting three resolutions, including one against the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), official sources said. The other two resolutions are said to be against 'One Nation, One Election' and delimitation of constituencies for the Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies.

Donald Trump’s recruitment of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate may be about the worst news the country could receive on the heels of the former president’s brush with a would-be assassin’s bullet.

Ajit Pawar on Sunday said the Mahayuti constituents, including the NCP led by him, are free to contest local bodies elections independently. Addressing Nationalist Congress Party workers in Pimpri Chinchwad city, he argued that independent contests would help strengthen the cadres. «Even though we are allies in Lok Sabha and state assembly, Mahayuti members are free to contest local bodies polls independently,» he said. The schedule for elections to local bodies, which include municipal councils, nagar panchayats and zilla parishads, is not yet finalised.

G Kishan Reddy said there is «no shortage» of coal for the power sector and the Centre will ensure adequate supply of the dry fuel to meet demand. The long-term demand will be met by increased productivity of Coal India and commercial mines, he said. «We are supplying coal to all thermal power plants. We have requested plants based on imported coal to switch their technology to utilise domestic fuel. There is no shortage of coal in the country,» Reddy, the minister for coal and mines, told PTI. Coal production usually faces hindrances during the monsoon season.

UPSC candidate with muscular dystrophy has been denied any service despite having cleared the examination four times, reported TOI. This comes amid the controversy over IAS officer Puja Khedkar allegedly misusing the disability quota. IIT Roorkee graduate Kartik Kansal, who has been using a wheelchair since he was 14 years old, was selected for the civil services four times in 2019 (rank 813), 2021 (271), 2022 (784) and 2023 (829). Kansal is currently a scientist in Isro, a post for which he was selected through all-India central recruitment. In 2021, he ranked 271 even without a disability quota and should have got IAS as ranks 272 and 273 got IAS in that year. However, in 2021, muscular dystrophy was not included in the list of conditions in functional classification eligible for IAS.

Christina Sanders passed away at the age of 61 and the news of her demise was announced by grieving boyfriend Eastwood.

Rio de Janeiro next week, following two years of geopolitical disputes that overshadowed their work and raised questions about the very purpose of the G-20. Geopolitical clashes, particularly the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, will be addressed in a separate chair statement published by the host nation together with the communique, according to ambassador Mauricio Carvalho Lyrio, the secretary for economic and financial affairs at Brazil's foreign ministry. «We need to resume the production of documents by the G-20,» he told reporters in Brasilia on Friday. «We will no longer demand the inclusion of language about geopolitics in ministerial documents.» Deep disagreements over the wars prevented G-20 finance chiefs from issuing a communique in February, when they met in Sao Paulo under Brazil's rotating presidency of the group. The same happened in India last year and in Indonesia in 2022. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's presidency of the G-20 is facing steep challenges in a tumultuous international climate dominated by contentious elections and the wars. Still, Brazilian authorities say discussions around his main proposals are making progress. The leftist leader has been pushing for the creation of a global minimum tax on billionaires to fund actions against climate change and programmes to eliminate world hunger.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War returns with its third season in October 2024. The announcement came at Anime Expo, featuring a new poster and trailer. The anime adapts the final chapters of the Bleach manga. Release Window At Anime Expo, the release window for Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 3 was announced. A new poster and trailer accompanied the announcement. The anime adapts the final story arc of the Bleach manga, left unfinished after the original series ended in 2012. The third part, titled «The Conflict,» focuses on the ongoing battle between the Soul Reapers and the Quincy. The series will conclude with its fourth season, adapting the last seventy-seven chapters of the manga.

Airports Authority of India, the Urban Development Department, the government of Rajasthan, and the Civil Aviation Department, for the development of Kota Greenfield Airport in Rajasthan, according to an official press release issued by AAI. As per the MoU, the government of Rajasthan will provide land for the development of the greenfield airport and AAI will be responsible for the construction, development, and operation of the airport. As per the information, the Greenfield airport at Kota will be constructed on 440.086 hectares of land for which a Detailed Project Report (DPR) is being prepared by the Airports Authority of India.

Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi on Friday said his party would not let Tripura, which has been rocked by violence over panchayat elections, turn into another Manipur. Gogoi, the deputy leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha, led a delegation of his party that visited the violence-affected areas of the state. «The Congress firmly stands with its leaders, workers and the people of Tripura during these difficult times. The Congress will not bow down to terror tactics of the BJP,» he said, addressing a press conference at the party's state headquarters in Agartala. «We will inform the party high command what we saw in Tripura during our two-day visit. PM Narendra Modi is saying that India is the mother of democracy but what we saw here is nothing short of murder of democracy,» he added.

Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) president Chirag Paswan says Rahul Gandhi's refusal to meet his father despite months of trying was a key reason for Ram Vilas Paswan leaving the Congress-led UPA and allying with the BJP just before the 2014 elections. Asked about his opinion of Rahul Gandhi, Chirag Paswan told PTI editors in an interaction at the agency's headquarters that the Congress leader has of late begun taking his responsibility «a bit more seriously» and criticised his recent speech in Parliament as unbecoming of the leader of opposition. Chirag Paswan then recalled that he and his father had often met Sonia Gandhi to discuss the future of their party in the UPA alliance. Sonia Gandhi suggested that Ram Vilas Paswan meet her son. The senior Paswan sought an appointment and waited for more than three months but Rahul Gandhi did not relent, said Chirag Paswan, who at that time too was keen to leave the UPA and join the NDA. Ram Vilas Paswan, however, was still keen to remain in the UPA, and wanted to discuss that with Rahul Gandhi, the son said.

income tax bracket, there is hardly any scope for you to save a higher amount as income tax in the new tax regime. However, the old income tax regime still allows you to claim more deductions to bring down your net taxable income and pay much lower income tax. Among these, the deductions on home loan interest and house rent allowance (HRA) are the two prominent avenues to save taxes. However, very few salaried taxpayers claim both these deductions together despite being eligible to do so. We tell you how to claim both these deductions together and save a significant amount of income tax. Here is how these two deductions work:

A whistleblower has been awarded more than $37 million resulting from information they shared with the Securities and Exchange Commission about wrongdoing.