Chandigarh girl booked for 'abusive' Facebook posts on traffic police
Posted Date : 18-Sep-2012 , 02:20:23 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
A 22-year-old woman, winner of a national bravery award, has been booked for allegedly posting abusive comments on Chandigarh traffic police's Facebook page.
Henna Bakshi, who claims to be winner of Geeta Chopra bravery award over a decade back for nabbing a burglar, was booked on Friday fo...
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Coalgate comes under judicial scrutiny, SC notice to Centre
Posted Date : 14-Sep-2012 , 04:31:54 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The alleged irregularities in the coal block allocations came under judicial scrutiny today with the Supreme Court directing the Centre to explain if the guidelines were strictly followed in allotting the natural resource to private companies.
Turning down the Centre's plea that the court s...
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ISI mark mandatory on steel products from September 12
Posted Date : 10-Sep-2012 , 11:28:38 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Steel makers will now have to produceBureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certified steel items as the Centre has made the certification mandatory from September 12. It was stated by BIS' Northern Region Office in a release here today. According to BIS new guidelines, all manufacturers, f...
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Each minute of running Parliament in sessions costs Rs 2.5 lakh: Government
Posted Date : 07-Sep-2012 , 09:16:09 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Each minute of running Parliament during sessions costs the exchequer Rs 2.5 lakh. This was reminded by the government to the Oppostion as the monsoon session of parliament was almost completely washed out over the controversy on coal block allocations with BJP insistent on Prime Minister Manmo...
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Gold touches record high of Rs 32,300 per ten grams
Posted Date : 06-Sep-2012 , 09:19:01 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Gold surged 320 rupees, to cross the 32,000-rupee mark for the first time ever, and hit a fresh record high of 32,300 rupees per ten grams at Delhi's bullion market, today. Gold rose on increased buying by stockists ahead of the marriage season, amid rising gold prices, globally. The precious metal ...
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Rs. 86,000 Crore Indirect Tax Revenue Locked up in Litigation
Posted Date : 06-Sep-2012 , 07:51:44 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
An amount of Rs.86,000 crores indirect tax revenue of Central Board of Excise and Customs has been locked up in litigation.
Success rate of departmental litigation in Courts and Tribunal during the last four y...
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Diesel rates may rise by Rs 4-5 per litre after Sept 7; petrol price to go up too
Posted Date : 04-Sep-2012 , 05:57:46 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The petroleum ministry plans to raisediesel rates by Rs 4-5 per litre after the parliament session ends on September 7 as oil firms' revenue loss has soared to almost half the retail price, but it expects stiff resistance from the ruling coalition, having tough time defending the government on ...
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Cabinet approves Bill providing quota in promotions for SC/ST in govt jobs
Posted Date : 04-Sep-2012 , 04:31:41 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Union Cabinet today approved the proposed Bill to provide quota for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, SCs and STs, in promotions, which would require certain changes in the Constitution.
The proposed Bill seeks to amend at least four articles of the Constitution to enable the gove...
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Brief Profile of CA Vivek Khurana (Founder of casansaar.com & NIRC Candidate - Dec.2012)
Posted Date : 30-Aug-2012 , 06:43:28 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
CA.Vivek Khurana, Founder of casansaar.com a Graduate in Commerce and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.Mr. Khurana is born and brought up in Rohtak (Haryana). He is a Sr. Partner of VGM & Associates, Chartered Accountants having offices in De...
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IRCTC to launch deposit scheme for faster bookings
Posted Date : 30-Aug-2012 , 06:26:08 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Booking a ticket through the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation(IRCTC) website is set to get easier and faster if the IRCTC's plans to set up a rolling deposit scheme (RDS) work out. Pradeep Kundu, joint general manager, public relations, IRCTC, said, "Under the...
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Antivirus software at discounted price: An arrangement made by the Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and Small & Medium Practitioners (CCBCAF&SMP), ICAI
Posted Date : 28-Aug-2012 , 10:00:46 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Committee for Capacity Building of CA Firms and Small & Medium Practitioners (CCBCAF&SMP), ICAI in order to enable members to have access to antivirus software, has tied up with Quick Heal technologies Pvt. Ltd. Pune for providing access to Quick Heal Total Security at a special ...
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Government approves complete ban on child labour below 14 yrs of age
Posted Date : 28-Aug-2012 , 09:58:51 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Government today cleared a proposal to put a complete ban on employment of children up to the age of 14 both in hazardous and non-hazardous work by amending an anti-child labour Act. The Union Cabinet, which met in New Delhi today, approved bringing amendment to the Child Labour (Prohibition and...
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Poonam Kishore Saxena new CBDT chairman
Posted Date : 22-Aug-2012 , 07:05:18 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Poonam Kishore Saxena, a 1975 batch IRS officer, has been appointed as Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the Finance Ministrysaid today. She was holding the additional charge of the post after incumbent chairman Laxman Das retired last month. Prior to the appointment, ...
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5 SMS per day limit comes into effect
Posted Date : 18-Aug-2012 , 03:17:53 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
To check spread of rumours which has led to exodus of northeastern peoplefrom certain states, government banned from today bulk SMSes and MMSes for 15 days across the country.
"We have banned bulk SMSes and MMSes for 15 days," Union Home Secretary RK Singh told PTI.
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Coal loss Rs 1.86L cr, Delhi airport 24K cr, power 29K cr: CAG
Posted Date : 17-Aug-2012 , 01:45:33 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) reports on allocation of coal blocks without bidding and the Delhi airport concession given to GMR and power projects was tabled in Parliament on Friday.The CAG report on allocation of coal blocks between 2004 and 2009 without auction has pegged the ...
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e-passbook facility for Provident funds
Posted Date : 08-Aug-2012 , 07:58:26 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Minister for Labour and Employment Mallikarjun Kharge has said an e-passbook facility, in which individuals can view and print their employee provident fund passbooks without having to go through employers, would be launched by the Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO).Speaking at the 200th me...
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P Chidambaram gets Finance Ministry, Sushil Kumar Shinde Home Ministry, Veerappa Moily gets Power portfolio
Posted Date : 31-Jul-2012 , 10:15:34 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a minor Cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, Home Minister P Chidambaram was moved to the Finance Ministry, which was being handled by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh while current Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde took over as the new Home Minister. Corporate Affairs Minister Veerappa Moily has been giv...
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Now just log on to EPFO website to check your monthly balance
Posted Date : 26-Jul-2012 , 06:40:15 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Over 50 million subscribers of the retirement fund body EPFO can obtain e-passbook along with details of their updated accounts online from on Wednesday. "The EPFO subscribers can get their statement of accounts online from today," Central Provident FundCommissioner R C Mishra sa...
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Petrol price to be hiked by 70 paisa per litre from tonight
Posted Date : 23-Jul-2012 , 08:36:36 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
After two rounds of rate cuts last month, petrol price was on Monday hiked by 70 paise per litre on firming international oil rates.
Petrol in Delhi will cost Rs68.48 per litre with effect from Monday midnight as compared to Rs67.78 a litre now, state-owned oil companies announced on Monday...
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Finance ministry starts probe into HSBC
Posted Date : 23-Jul-2012 , 08:09:02 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the finance ministry has begun a probeinto the HSBC's India operations after it was alleged that the country was exposed to terror funding and money laundering due to the banking giant's weak safety mechanisms. The FIU,...
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Pranab Mukherjee will be 13th President of India
Posted Date : 22-Jul-2012 , 07:44:37 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Pranab Mukherjee is President-elect and will take oath as the 13th President of India at 11.30 am on Wednesday, July 25.
The returning officer for the presidential elections, VK Agnihotri, announced a little after 6.30 pm on Sunday, "Pranab Mukherjee has been duly elected to the office o...
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IRCTC deactivates 44,000 multiple user IDs of agents
Posted Date : 22-Jul-2012 , 12:16:11 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Cracking down on misuse of user IDs by agents to corner general and tatkal tickets, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited (IRCTC) has deactivated as many as 44,000 multiple user IDs created by agents in the past 10 days.
In addition, the vigilance teams of IRCTC have a...
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CBI arrests Baba Ramdev's aide Balkrishna
Posted Date : 20-Jul-2012 , 06:02:17 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Yoga guru Ramdev's aide Balkrishna was on Thursday arrested by the CBI after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him by a special court here in an alleged fake documents case. Ramdev is scheduled to start an agitation against corruption and blackmoney issue from August 9 at Ram Lila groun...
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Women better tax planners than men, reveals study
Posted Date : 19-Jul-2012 , 07:46:40 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
The study was conducted across 500 corporates and banks in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
Women tax payees are better "tax planners" than men across the country, a study conducted by online-income tax filing-portal TaxSpanner has said.
The study, conduct...
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Bollywood's first superstar Rajesh Khanna dies at 69
Posted Date : 18-Jul-2012 , 02:30:39 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Actor Rajesh Khanna has died at home in Mumbai. He was 69. Mr Khanna was suffering from cancer. Mr Khanna will be cremated tomorrow morning. His bungalow, Aashirwad, on Carter Road in Bandra has been cordoned off by the police.Mr Khanna had been hospitalized on June 23, when he was taken to Lil...
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Diesel price hike likely after presidential polls on July 19: Source
Posted Date : 12-Jul-2012 , 08:03:28 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
Government is likely to raise diesel prices after a presidential election on July 19, a highly-placed oil ministry source said on Thursday, as Asia's third largest economy battles to avoid a sovereign downgrade to "junk" by two ratings agencies.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has long vowed ...
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Veteran actor Dara Singh dies at 84
Posted Date : 12-Jul-2012 , 09:00:48 am | Posted By CASANSAAR
Veteran Actor Dara Singh died at the age of 84 in Mumbai on Thursday. The 84-year-old had suffered severe brain damage following a cardiac arrest last week.
Dara Singh was shifted home from hospital on Wednesday night as his family wanted his final moments to be spent at home.
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IGL hikes CNG price in NCR by Rs 2.90/kg
Posted Date : 06-Jul-2012 , 10:04:41 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
CNG price in the national capital and adjoining towns was hiked today by a steep Rs 2.90 per kg, the third increase this year.
Compressed natural gas (CNG) in Delhi will cost Rs 38.35 per kg with effect from midnight tonight,Indraprastha Gas Ltd , the sole retailer of CNG and piped nat...
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Government extends interest subsidy scheme on home loans up to Rs 15 lakhs for one year
Posted Date : 04-Jul-2012 , 03:25:50 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
The government on wednesday extended by one year the one per cent interest subsidy scheme on housing loans of up to Rs 15 lakh, where the cost of the house does not exceed Rs 25 lakh.
"When interest rates have risen, even one per cent relief is a relief for the middle class and lower middle c...
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Petrol prices to be slashed by Rs. 2.46 per litre from midnight
Posted Date : 28-Jun-2012 , 08:59:29 pm | Posted By CASANSAAR
In a relief to inflation-battered common man, petrol price was on Thursday cut by Rs 2.46 per litre, the second reduction this month. Petrol price in Delhi will cost Rs 67.78 per litre with effect from midnight tonight as compared to Rs 70.24 a litre rate now, state-owned oi...
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