Delhi Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot on Tuesday halted the enforcement of compulsory high-security number plates (HSRPs) and colour-coded till further orders. The decision came after the minister held a meeting to resolve issues faced by vehicle owners in getting the new number plates. After the meeting, Gahlot directed manufacturers and dealers of high-security number plates […]
Managing Director, State Bank of India (SBI), Dinesh Kumar Khara has been appointed as the chairman of the bank for tenure of three years effective from today (October 7). Khara replaced State Bank of India Chairman Rajnish Kumar, whose three-year term ended on October 7. On August 28, Bank Board Bureau had recommended the appointment […]
The Union Health Ministry issued a series of standard operating procedures (SOPs) on Tuesday for the upcoming festive season. According to the SOP, events should be planned with staggered timings and restricted entries. Physical distancing, marks on floors, sanitisers and thermal guns must be ensured by festival organisers during the festive season. Pre-identification of space/site […]
DRDO India successfully tested the Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo (SMART) from Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha on Monday. All mission objectives, including missile flight upto the range and altitude, separation of the nose cone, the release of Torpedo and deployment of Velocity Reduction Mechanism (VRM), were met perfectly in the flight […]
Americans Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize 2020 for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. The head of the Nobel Committee, Thomas Perlmann, announced the winners in Stockholm. The disease is chronic and a major cause of liver […]
Chirag Falor from the IIT Bombay zone topped the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2020, scoring 352 marks out of 396. The results were announced by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) at jeeadv.ac.in on Monday. Among women candidates, Kanishka Mittal (AIR 17) is the topper. Mittal obtained 315 marks out of 396 and […]
To avoid challan, Delhi government has urged vehicle owners to upgrade their vehicle number plates to high-security registration plates. The ministry of road transport and highways had made it mandatory for vehicle manufacturers to provide HSRPs from April 2019. The demand for High Security Registration Plates has risen with the state government’s notice last week. […]
Names of the 20 Indian soldiers who were killed in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on June 15 have been inscribed on a war memorial in eastern Ladakh to honour them, said officials on Saturday. The Indian Army memorial has come up at ‘KM-120’, a point near the confluence of the Galwan and Shyok […]
The new income tax rule (TCS) introduced on foreign exchange transactions under LRS (Liberalised Remittance Scheme), which was supposed to be effective from April 1, 2020, and was extended till October 1, 2020, has also been amended. Under the LRS, all resident individuals, including minors, are allowed to freely remit/avail foreign exchange facility up to […]
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the last date for filing income tax returns for assessment year 2019-20, which is financial year 2018-19, for the fourth time. Now, the last date for filing the ITR of the year concerned is November 30. This is the fourth time that the date has been […]