Day: May 28, 2021

‘My village, corona-free village’ should be goal of every villager: UP CM

11:05 pm May 28, 2021

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked newly elected village heads on Friday to strive for making their hamlets free of the coronavirus. ”My village, corona-free village” should be the goal of every villager and there should be a healthy competition among panchayats to achieve the target, the chief minister said while interacting with the village […]

Arizona wildfire destroys homes in remote mining town

11:01 pm May 28, 2021

Phoenix : A wildfire has destroyed at least a dozen homes in a remote Arizona mining town, but authorities said firefighting crews managed to halt the blaze’s advance with assistance from aircraft dropping water and fire retardant. The fire that started Thursday afternoon in the community of Bagdad in desert hill country about 100 miles (160 kilometers) […]

GST Council leaves tax rate on vaccines unchanged

9:08 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: The GST Council on Friday left taxes on COVID-19 vaccines and medical supplies unchanged but exempted duty on import of a medicine used for treatment of black fungus. A group of ministers will deliberate on tax structure on the vaccine and medical supplies, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters after a meeting of […]

Donations for Ayodhya mosque made tax-free

9:03 pm May 28, 2021

Ayodhya: The government has granted tax exemption to those contributing for the construction of the mosque, for which the Supreme Court had allotted five acres in the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi land dispute case, according to a members of the trust overseeing the project. The decision came nine months after the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), the trust […]

Restaurants wait anxiously for Delhi govt to lift curbs

8:56 pm May 28, 2021

New Delhi: Home-style cooked meals and ‘in-house delivery’ ecosystem might have saved the day for some restaurants in Delhi, but with dine-ins contributing “70-80 per cent” of the total revenue, owners wait anxiously for the city government to lift curbs after a six-week gruelling lockdown. Dine-in facility has not been allowed in Delhi since April […]