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NEW DELHI: The income tax department Monday launched a nationwide verification operation targeting individuals and entities facilitating fraudulent claims of deductions and exemptions in I-T returns.The exercise is not limited to deductions for donations to little-known political parties and charities but also those related to health insurance and medical expenses (Sec 80D and 80DDB of…

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: India on Monday directed its airlines using certain Boeing aircraft, like the B737s and B787 Dreamliners, to check fuel control switch locking mechanisms on them by July 21.The regulators and airlines of some other countries, like South Korea and the UAE, are also doing the same. The US Federal Aviation Administration had in…

NEW DELHI: Odisha chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Tuesday announced the death of the 20-year-old girl student from FM Autonomous College, Balasore, who had attempted self-immolation earlier this month after alleging sexual harassment by a faculty memberThe victim, a second-year BEd student at FM Autonomous College, was undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar after sustaining…

NEW DELHI: The Union government on Monday notified the appointment of chief justices of five high courts – Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Gauhati, Patna and Jharkhand – while transferring the chief justices of four others.Acting chief justice of MP high court Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva has been appointed as the chief justice of the same high court;…

J&K CM Omar Abdullah speaks to the media as he recites prayers to mark Martyrs’ Day amid restrictions from the Srinagar district administration (Picture credit: ANI) SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah climbed over a wall at Srinagar’s Naqshband Sahib shrine Monday after police denied entry to him and several cabinet members attempting to pay tribute…