Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today announced cuts in personal income tax, extended tax benefits for affordable housing and gave relief to companies on payment of dividend in the Union Budget for 2020-21.
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The Republican Party-controlled US Senate on Friday narrowly rejected the opposition Democrats’ motion to call new witnesses and documents for the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman today cut short her Budget speech as she felt unwell after speaking for a record 160 minutes in Lok Sabha.
A simplified return format for GST is being introduced from April 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said today.
A special Air India plane landed here this morning after evacuating 324 Indian nationals from the novel coronavirus-hit Wuhan and another flight of the airline would leave the national capital for the Chinese city in the afternoon, officials said.
India captain Virat Kohli on Friday said he has learnt an important lesson in the back-to-back Super Over finishes against New Zealand: To ‘stay calm till the end’ and bounce back when the opportunity arises.
US senators wrapped up two days of exhaustive questioning of House prosecutors and White House lawyers at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, setting the stage for a showdown vote on Democratic demands for new witnesses. Chief Democratic prosecutor Adam Schiff, in a last-ditch bid to win over Republican senators wary of a drawn-out process, proposed a one-week time frame to secure new witness testimony.
Britain left the European Union today, ending more than four decades of economic, political and legal integration with its closest neighbours. But things will feel the same for many months, owing to a transition period intended to allow both sides time to agree the terms of their future partnership. Three Brexit deadlines came and went before the British parliament finally ratified the divorce agreement.
President Ram Nath Kovind today hailed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act as ‘historic’ in his address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, prompting protests by some opposition members.