In FY2019, the corporate tax rate in India was 25.71%

What are the issues that have thwarted the telecom company’s expansion and growth? 

Tata Motors said with its manufacturing capacity nearing saturation, the acquisition is timely and a win-win for all stakeholders

Brent crude oil was trading at ₹94.91 per barrel on August 18

Why is the real-estate vertical of the textile company under fire from the Securities and Exchange Board of India? What are the main allegations against the company?

Why have 136 countries and members of the EU agreed to implement a 15% tax rate on large multinational corporations? What are the particulars of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s global tax agreement? Will low tax jurisdictions concur with the plan?

The National Payments Corporation of India has allowed non-residents with international numbers to be on-boarded into the UPI ecosystem, while the Union Cabinet approved a Rs 2,600 crore incentive scheme to promote RuPay debit cards and low-value BHIM-UPI transactions

The revised norms deal with bulk procurement of SIM cards and require the distributors, franchises and agents selling SIM cards to undergo thorough verification, including a check by the police

The Competition Commission of India has proposed certain definite thresholds for mergers as part of the larger regulatory ambit, in line with the amendments to the Competition Act earlier this year.

The Bharat Ratan, Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar today met 82 years old Tibetan spiritual leader the 14th Dalai Lama at his residence in north Indian hill town Dharmashala. After meeting the Dalai Lama Sachin said, “It’s excellent… very good meeting and always wanted to be here and take the blessings. Just wanted to spend some time […]

Four people were killed and around 100 others injured after the North East Express train derailed in Bihar on Wednesday. An official said that the incident took place close to Raghunathpur station near Buxar around 9.35 pm. The train, which started from Anand Vihar Terminus in Delhi, was on its way to Kamakhya near Guwahati […]

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A new smart speaker turns on the lights and pumps out the music for your bash

The Indian renewable energy industry is in a situation of concern but there is no cause for despondency

Arrests and imprisonment over tax offences have increasingly become commonplace, raising questions of official overreach. BusinessLine reports

Dispute settlement schemes are expected to clear the litigation backlog and ramp up revenues

Livelihoods created, but fewer projects completed

FPOs have emerged as an antidote to the ills of the cooperative sector in Maharashtra. Will they live up to their potential?

India is the world’s largest producer of bananas, but a minor exporter. The tide is turning in its favour, thanks largely to a global pest attack. Vishwanath Kulkarni reports

Around 2,000 of the mystery black balls had washed onto beaches across Sydney since October 15

Why are developing countries more vulnerable to climate change? How does the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change define climate finance? Why have the figures mentioned in the OECD report been called into question? Does India need climate financing?

What factors contribute to the deterioration of air quality in Delhi during the winter months? How does stubble burning affect PM 2.5 levels? What role do urban emissions from vehicles play in determining air quality? Why is a coordinated approach necessary to tackle the air pollution crisis?

The Central Water Commission's (CWC) report, states that with a 33.7% expansion of the surface area, the lakes in India experienced an even more substantial rise

At the COP16 negotiations in Colombia, countries failed to figure out how they would mobilise $200 billion a year in conservation funding by 2030

The Kalka–Shimla railway is a narrow-gauge railway in Himachal Pradesh, which traverses a mostly-mountainous route from Kalka to Shimla

Climate experts anxious about American commitment to carbon mitigation efforts, particularly the Trump campaign’s espousal for fracking and distrust of scientific consensus on the impacts of greenhouse gas warming

The WHO has recognised TTS as a rare but serious adverse event linked to specific Covid-19 vaccines.

AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine faces UK class action suit; Serum Institute markets it in India as Covishield

‘The space programme is always a work-in-progress’

Obesity has “exploded” around the world, and it’s not because people are lazy or weak-willed - Johann Hari, Author

Understanding the colour of blood helps us appreciate the complex yet fascinating workings of our bodies

India ranks 6th amongst the top nine deeptech ecosystems globally

A team at IASST Guwahati has identified 4 different Ionic Liquids that can be effective in extracting silk proteins from raw fibres 

‘All the systems for the Gaganyaan rocket - codenamed G1 - will reach SDSC in November this year and the target for the rocket flight is December’

The signature moment of the mission was to be a spacewalk by billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis

First shipment of vaccines expected to arrive in Congo within days: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

After separating from the spacecraft, the Super Heavy booster for the first time executed a landing burn and had a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico after eight eight minutes of the launch

SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams

The nuclear physics hub needs to finance the construction of the Future Circular Collider as its existing particle accelerator — famed for discovering the Higgs Boson — edges toward the end of its useful life

Embarking on a 1.8 million-mile journey from Kennedy Space Centre, the spacecraft is set to reach Jupiter in 5 1/2 years, utilising gravity assists from Mars and Earth

WMO study says 2023 figure is 151 per cent % of pre-industrial period

Nifty futures posted a marginal gain of 0.2 per cent and Bank Nifty futures appreciated 1.5 per cent over the past week

One more leg of downmove is still a possibility before the broader uptrend resumes 

Under Section 89(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, you may claim tax relief on arrear pension received from previous years

It needs to be seen if fortunes for the consumer segments will reverse

Here’s a lowdown on notices/ intimations from the I-T department and what they mean for taxpayers

Participants need to wait for a confirmatory move