Wrestler Vinesh Phogat was disqualified from the Paris Olympics after the official weigh-in on Wednesday morning, ahead of her scheduled gold medal bout in the evening. She will return from Paris without a medal. While she had cleared the weigh-in on Tuesday, Vinesh was found to be “a few grams over 50 kg” in Wednesday morning’s weigh-in. The Indian Express first reported that she was learnt to be 2 kilos overweight on Tuesday night — weight that she tried her best to cut overnight but could not. What is a…
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GST Dept. Issues Tax Notices to 20 Insurance Companies in SEZs
GST council furnished the notices before 20 general insurance companies with the functionality in Special Economic Zones (SEZs), asking for Rs 2000 crore in unpaid dues pertinent to the services furnished before the employees of industrial units within these zones and their families. The companies that have received show-cause notices from the Directorate of GST Intelligence (DGGI) include HDFC Ergo General Insurance Co, Star Health & Allied Insurance, Cholamandalam MS General Insurance Co, New India Assurance Co, and United India Insurance Co. The notices reference Integrated GST (IGST) issues, with…
‘Heartbroken that I cannot see and hug my mother’: Sheikh Hasina’s daughter Saima Wazed | World News
World Health Organization South-East Asia Regional Director Saima Wazed Thursday expressed her despair at not being able to meet her mother, former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, in a post on X. Hasina remains in India after she was forced to flee her country in the wake of violent protests. Hasina arrived in India on Monday evening, and was taken to a safe house. While she was supposed to head to London, her travel plans to the UK hit “roadblocks”, and New Delhi affirmed that they were willing to host…
Madhuri Dixit answers if she sang ‘Tu shayar hai, main teri shayari’ to husband Shriram Nene: ‘Unko itni Hindi nahi aati’ | Bollywood News
Actress Madhuri Dixit Nene will clock in 40 successful years in the film industry on August 10. To celebrate this special occasion, she is travelling across the USA where she will be meeting and interacting with her fans. Ahead of the tour, the Devdas actress was seen at the press conference in New Jersey, where she was asked if she has ever used any Bollywood dialogues on Dr Shriram Nene. Madhuri was asked by a journalist if he has ever sang the song ‘Tu shayar hai main teri shayri’ from…
17 hospitalised after ammonia gas leak at food processing company in Pune district | Pune News
Seventeen people, including 15 women, were hospitalised after ammonia gas leaked from the cooling unit of a food processing company at Bhandgaon in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Wednesday. One person is in the ICU and 16 others are out of danger, officials said on Thursday morning. The incident occurred in a ready-to-eat food preparation unit at Bhandgaon, located around 60 km from Pune, an officer from Yavat police station under the Pune rural jurisdiction said. “On Wednesday morning, after an incident of ammonia leak from the cooling unit in the…
Daily Briefing: Vinesh Phogat announces retirement; proposed changes to Waqf Act; and more | Live News
‘My courage is broken… goodbye, wrestling’ Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat’s story of resilience is one to be told for generations to come. Which is why her announcing her retirement is perhaps as painful—if not more—as the news of her disqualification from the Paris Olympics. The wrestler had a billion hearts cheering her on as she became the first Indian woman to qualify for an Olympic wrestling final on Tuesday. She was forced to rest her medal dreams after she failed a weigh in on Wednesday morning by a mere 100…
10 years of Njan Steve Lopez: When Rajeev Ravi gave a tight slap to the elderly sellouts and a salute to political, humane youths | Malayalam News
“With age comes wisdom,” they say. ‘They’ are obviously those who have aged. “Youth is wasted on the young,” they say that too. Yet, contrary to these grand assertions, many elderly people are often seen keeping their distance from all the (anti-oppressor) noise around them, resigning themselves to the notion that nothing is going to change and believing that money and power rule this world; “we are irrelevant,” thereby shamelessly adopting indifference. Still, many of us, at least while growing up, consider our parents flawless; the ones who can do…
Bruises, wounds point to torture of 3 men killed while in Assam police custody, families tell court citing post-mortem reports | India News
Pointing to the post-mortem reports of three men – who were branded militants and killed while in Assam police custody last month – their families have told the Gauhati High Court that they were tortured before being shot dead. The men – Joshua from Senvon village in Manipur’s Pherzawl district, and Lallungawi Hmar and Lalbikung Hmar, both residents of K Bethel village in Assam’s Cachar district – were killed on July 17. The police had claimed the three were Hmar militants whom they had apprehended the previous day. Police claimed…
Assembly Bypoll: Yogi hits the ground running, takes stock of Katehari seat | Lucknow News
TWO DAYS after he chaired a meeting with senior BJP leaders, including both Deputy CMs and the BJP’s state president, to discuss the party’s strategy for the coming Assembly bypolls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who reached Ambedkar Nagar from Ayodhya on Wednesday, convened another meeting of BJP office-bearers and public representatives. During the meeting, Adityanath emphasised that the coming election is a “contest between BJP’s development agenda and the opposition’s destructive propaganda,” sources said. He alleged that the opposition was indulging in “tactics of dividing society along caste lines and spreading…
FM Sitharaman lists tax relief for middle class; it is tax trap Bill: Opposition | India News
Amid Opposition allegations that the Government had given the short shrift to the middle class and was taxing it heavily, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Wednesday said in the Lok Sabha that a number of tax relief measures had been taken for the middle class. She also denied charges that the corporates were being taxed less than earlier. “Several members have spoken about the tax burden on middle class. In 2023, the slabs for personal income tax were significantly liberalised. All taxpayers had reduced liability of `37,500. We have again revised…