Day: January 15, 2021

GST Council leaves tax rate on vaccines unchanged

Chartered Accountant arrested for issuing fake bills of Rs 79.5 cr: Delhi CGST officials

8:37 pm January 15, 2021

New Delhi: The officers of Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) Commissionerate, Delhi (East) have detected a case of issue of fake bills of Rs 79.5 crore to wrongfully avail Input Tax Credit (ITC) and arrested a Chartered Accountant (CA), according to an official statement issued on Friday. The syndicate was being operated by Nitin Jain, a CA who floated three firms — M/s […]

Journalists nettle Nitish on crime, heated exchange follows

8:34 pm January 15, 2021

Patna: A heated exchange was witnessed here on Friday between Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and journalists when they nettled him over a high-profile murder case that rocked the state capital earlier this week. Kumar was talking to reporters after dedicating to the public the first phase of ‘Atal Path’, a Rs 379.57 crore elevated […]

Man involved in robbery held after gunfight in UP’s Greater Noida

8:21 pm January 15, 2021

Noida: A man, who was allegedly involved in robbing cash from two petrol pump employees last week in Greater Noida, was held on Friday after a gunfight with the police, officials said. The accused suffered a bullet injury on his leg in the gunfight that broke out on a service lane near Dadha roundabout this […]

China honours ‘Bat Woman’ of controversial Wuhan lab as WHO team arrives to probe COVID-19 origins

8:17 pm January 15, 2021

Beijing: China has honoured a virologist of a controversial Wuhan-based bio-lab, which was at the centre of COVID-19 storm, as a WHO team arrived at the Chinese city to probe the origins of the coronavirus. Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology who has earned the moniker of ‘Bat Woman’ for her passionate research into bats and viruses […]

Assam: Elephant dies after getting stuck in wetland

Elderly woman killed by wild elephant in Chhattisgarh

8:08 pm January 15, 2021

Jashpur: A 60-year-old woman was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Jashpur district on Friday, a forest official said. Dashoda Bai, a native of Pandrapath area, was attacked by the jumbo in Ambakachhar forest near Farsabahar village in the morning hours, the official said. The victim belonged to a group of cattle […]