The Nayab Singh Saini government’s announcement that 24 crops in the state would be procured on Minimum Support (MSP), coming months ahead of the state Assembly polls, has not cut much ice with farmer organisations. Out of the 24, around 10 are crops which are not extensively grown in the state, the farmer leaders and the Congress have pointed out. Farmer anger over the unmet demand for legal guarantee of MSP was seen as a major contributor to the BJP’s poor performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls. While Leader…
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Punjab and Haryana High Court Validates Revision Order
The Punjab & Haryana High Court upheld the revisional order passed by the Principal Commissioner Income Tax (PCIT) under Section 263 of the Income Tax Act. as the assessment was wrongly passed by the Assessing Officer ( AO ) under Section 44ADA of the Act. The taxpayer Harjot Singh, is an individual who filed his return. Upon search operation, the taxpayer surrendered an additional income of Rs.15,11,555 on account of excess stock, construction of a residential house, and renovation of business premises. The Income Tax Assessing Officer evaluated the income…
Haryana: Kanwariya killed, 13 injured after truck comes in contact with power wire | Delhi News
A kanwariya was killed and 13 more suffered burn injuries after their canter-truck came in contact with a overhead electricity wire here in Haryana on Sunday, police said. The victims — all kanwariyas (Shiva devotees) — were going to Haridwar in Uttarakhand as part of the kawar yatra to collect water from the Ganga river, they said. The incident happened in the Nawada area and they were all admitted to a hospital with burn injuries. Nitin, 20, a resident of Tigaon, was referred to another hospital where doctors declared him…
Shambhu: A Punjab village synonymous with farmers’ protests | Chandigarh News
Shambhu village bordering the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana is now synonymous with the farmers’ protests. The village near National Highway 44 first hit the headlines in 2020 during the farmers’ protest against three central farm laws when farmers from Punjab broke the barricades at the Shambhu border as they made their way to Delhi. The village is back in the limelight now with the Punjab and Haryana High Court recently directing Haryana to remove the barricades placed to prevent protesting farmers from marching to Delhi. In Punjab and…
Gurugram multi-crore robbery case: Haryana IPS officer suspended for hiding robbery to conduct lie detector test in Gujarat
[ad_1] A Gurugram court on Tuesday ordered a lie-detector test on former DCP Dheeraj Kumar Setia, who was suspended in December last year in a multi-crore loot case in the district. The lie-detector test will be conducted at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar, the court said while directing the Haryana Special Task Force to follow the Supreme Court’s guidelines while conducting the polygraph test. The court took note of the prosecution’s submission that the polygraph test of Setia could not be done in the forensic lab…