Mumbai, Jan 15: Operations of more than 900 domestic and international flights are likely to be affected as both runways of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai will be closed from February 7 to March 30 for repair and maintenance following, the runways will be non-operational for six hours. During this period, the […]
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The central government could propose massive benefits to the taxpayers in the upcoming interim budget. The measures mooted include lifting the income tax exemption threshold from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh and the reinstatement tax-free status to medical reimbursement and travel allowance. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley could announce the new direct tax tweaks […]
New Delhi, Jan 15: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in a pre-poll sop may increase the income tax exemption threshold for the salaried class from 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. The middle class which was under considerable strain after demonetisation would benefit from this move. In the interim budget, Jaitley may also reinstate tax-free status […]
A number of people trying to maintain good health and also exploring to buy a health insurance policy to cover their health risks find existing health insurance policies in the country confusing and expensive. Moreover, an even larger chunk of people does not trust the healthcare ecosystem, which includes hospitals, insurance companies as well as […]
The right to privacy has become a pressing human rights issue. And rightly so. Big data – combined with artificial intelligence and facial recognition software – has the capacity to intrude on people’s lives in unprecedented ways, in some cases on a massive scale. While much of the discussion has focused on how social media […]
Washington: Scientists used aerial photographs, satellite measurements and computer models to track how fast the southern-most continent has been melting since 1979 in 176 individual basins. They found the ice loss to be accelerating dramatically — a key indicator of human-caused climate change. Since 2009, Antarctica has lost almost 278 billion tons (252 billion metric […]
Gandhi’s jibe comes a day after Modi received the first-ever Philip Kotler Presidential award here. New Delhi: Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for receiving the Philip Kotler Presidential award, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he wants to “congratulate” him on winning “the world famous” prize that has no jury and […]
On his 93rd birth anniversary, ThePrint remembers the achievements of Jadhav, who won a bronze medal in wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was India’s first athlete to win an Olympic medal in an individual sport. Yet, in the country’s sporting history, he remains the only Olympic medallist to have not been […]
The first bathing was taken by saints and seers of different Akharas. According to Kumbh Mela administration around one crore 25 lakh devotees area expected on this Royal bathing Makar Sankranti. Twenty-one Snan Ghats have been set up for bathing. Special arrangements have been made for women devotees and for the first time three women […]
The freshly raised funds will be utilised by WayCool to scale up operations across the southern and western parts of India, strengthen its technology platform and reinforce its supply chain. Agritech startup WayCool Foods has raised a funding of Rs 120 crore, as a combination of equity and debt, in a round led by global […]