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tax rates to easing compliances, these reforms have fundamentally changed the approach of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) towards taxpayers — an approach marked by trust, transparency and responsiveness. The broad trends of number of income-tax returns (ITRs) filed as well as the direct tax collections over this period have vindicated this trust-based approach. A major enabler of this success has been CBDT's embrace of technology to not only simplify compliances but to also identify potential cases of tax evasion through data analytics.

Talk about changes at Twitter, and the biggest one may not yet have come. The blue bird, synonymous with the micro-blog platform, now seems set to be uncaged as Elon Musk overhauls his $44 billion purchase.

Delhi Police from North Rohini Police Station upon reaching the spot met the 80-year-old complainant The victim claimed that on 19 July at around 8am, the couple went to Gurgaon to meet their son. On Friday morning, he received a call from his neighbour about a break-in at his house.

Stocks on Wall Street ended mixed on Friday, as investors weighed the latest round of corporate earnings results while continuing to focus on the outlook for the economy and monetary policy.

Greta Gerwig's " Barbie " and Christopher Nolan's " Oppenheimer " brought moviegoers back to the theaters in record numbers this weekend, vastly outperforming projections and giving a glimmer of hope to the lagging exhibition business, amid the sobering backdrop of strikes.Warner Bros.' «Barbie» claimed the top spot with a massive $155 million in ticket sales from North American theaters from 4,243 locations, surpassing «The Super Mario Bros. Movie» (as well as every Marvel movie this year) as the biggest opening of the year and breaking the first weekend record for a film directed by a woman.

Congress stalwart Oommen Chandy as the party candidate from the Puthuppally constituency he represented for 53 years, KPCC chief K Sudhakaran on Sunday said it would be someone from the veteran leader's family. Later, in a statement, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) president Sudhakaran said he never meant that only a member of Chandy's family would become the party candidate for Puthuppally assembly constituency. Sudhakaran, also the Kannur MP, said he only meant that Chandy's family members would also be considered and consulted during the discussions on who should be the Congress candidate from the constituency. «No discussions have been held by the party on that subject yet,» he added. Initially, Sudhakaran was seen telling reporters in Kochi that unofficially discussions have begun on who should be the candidate and officially it would start a couple of days later. However, there was no doubt that it would be someone from Chandy's family, he said. At the same time, the KPCC chief also said that the decision on who it should be would be decided by the family and not the party.

₹10 lakh in today’s money. Today, for half that amount, you can get a first-class return ticket on a Mumbai-New York flight. Billionaires who undertake outlandish space and marine missions are pioneers who pave the way for the same adventures to become mass market.

Elon Musk Sunday said he plans to rebrand the platform and do away with the iconic brand logo. “And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds. If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we'll make go live worldwide tomorrow", Musk tweeted.

traffic police have suspended a cop who fined a Korean man Rs 5,000 without any receipt. The incident is said to have happened a couple of days ago (some reports claim it happened around a month back). In the video, the traffic cop named Mahesh Chand can be seen asking the Korean man for Rs 5,000 for some alleged traffic rule violation.

BRICS bloc and its five countries comprising the grouping are deeply connected in terms of values, India's culture minister Meenakshi Lekhi has said. Lekhi, the Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture, met culture ministers of BRICS countries in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa on Friday ahead of the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg next month.

As reported, the incident happened on a US-based Spirit Airlines flight. According to a report from View From The Wing, a woman claimed she was «forced to urinate» on plane's floor after being denied access to the plane's restroom for several hours by the airline staff. Shockingly, a cabin crew member recorded a video of the incident, further compounding the humiliation.

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(Reuters) -Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter's logo, tweeting: «And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds».

Anand Mahindra, who has over 10 million followers on Twitter, has shared a video of an octogenarian tea seller from Amritsar and said that he will visit the tea stall during his next visit to the city of Golden Temple. Sharing a nearly 7-minute video of Amritsar Walking Tours from this Twitter handle, the business tycoon said: «There are many sights to see in Amritsar. But the next time I visit the city, apart from visiting the Golden Temple, I will make it a point to visit this ‘Temple of Tea Service’ that Baba has apparently run for over 40 years.

Barbie and Oppenheimer. Both big-ticket movies released on July 21, 2023, and caused a social media frenzy like never seen before. So confused were viewers as to what to watch on the day of release, that they decided to watch both films on July 21. Then the question arose as to what to watch first – Barbie or Oppenheimer? And thus the term hashtag ‘Barbenheimer’ was born on social media. Let’s take a look at what it means.

ethnic violence in Manipur that erupted on May 3 and has left over 160 dead has been largely fuelled by rumours and fake news, according to officials from various security agencies who have been monitoring the situation in the restive northeastern state. The despicable May 4 incident in Kangpokpi district, where two women were paraded naked and assaulted by several people, was among the spate of sexual attacks that occurred after a picture of a body wrapped in polythene was circulated in the Imphal valley with a false claim that the victim had been murdered by tribals in Churachandpur.

Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Monday a plea seeking directions to states and the Centre to provide free sanitary pads to class 6-12 girls and ensure separate female toilet facility in all government-aided and residential schools. The plea by social worker Jaya Thakur is scheduled to be heard by a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices JB Pardiwala and Manoj Misra.

Elon Musk said on Sunday he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”. In a post on the site at 12:06 a.m. ET (0406 GMT), the social media platform’s billionaire owner added: “If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make (it) go live worldwide tomorrow.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was recovering in a hospital on Sunday after an emergency heart procedure while opposition to his government's contentious judicial overhaul plan reached a fever pitch and unrest gripped the country. Netanyahu's doctors said on Sunday the heart pacemaker implantation went smoothly and that Netanyahu, 73, felt fine. According to his office, he was expected to be discharged later in the day.

Amit Thackeray was stopped at it earlier, an official said. He is the son of MNS founder Raj Thackeray and was reportedly stopped at Gonde toll plaza in Sinnar at 9:15pm on Saturday while on his way to Mumbai due to some mismatch in his vehicle's Fastag details, he said.