The Income Tax Department today launched and activated all the seven ITR forms for e-filing by taxpayers, after more than a month of them being notified. The Central Board of Direct Taxes had notified the new Income Tax Return forms for the assessment year 2018-19 on April 5. “All ITRs for AY 2018-19 are now available for e-filing,” the department ...

In an Indian restaurant in Mississauga, Canada, 15 people were injured in the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion. According to ‘CBC Canada’, a campaign for the search of two suspects has been started, who executed the expolsion at the Bombay Bhel restaurant and fled after the explosion. This incident took place around 10.30 pm on Thursday (May 24) in the ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Sikh shrine of Hemkund Sahib in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand opened after winter break amidst presence of 8,000 pilgrims on Friday. The proceedings started with the Sukhmani Path following opening of the portal. The portals were opened at 10 am which was followed by ‘ardas’. Many pilgrims took the holy dip in the ice cold water ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat inaugurated the three-day “Tehri Festival – 2018” at Koti Colony, Tehri, by lighting a traditional lamp on Friday. Chief Minister said that next year, arrangements would be made for landing Sea Plane at Tehri Lake, for which survey has already been done. On this occasion, the Chief Minister laid the foundation stones ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday sought vote of confidence in the Karnataka Assembly for the three-day-old Congress-JD(S) coalition government headed by him. Kumaraswamy moved the one-line motion soon after the unanimous election of Ramesh Kumar as the speaker of the assembly. With the numbers game in favour of the coalition, the 58-year old, who took oath ...

The deadly Nipah virus yesterday claimed one more life in Kerala, with a 61-year-old man succumbing to the virus, taking the death toll to 11. The latest victim, V Moosa, was on ventilator support since the past few days. There are totally 14 nipah confirmed cases, of whom 11 have so far lost their lives. Three people are undergoing treatment ...

This is the second floor test in less than a week after BJP strongman B S Yeddyurappa had stepped down last Saturday, two days after he assumed office as the chief minister, without going through the motions of a floor test. The 224-member Assembly has an effective strength of 221, as election for Jayanagar seat was countermanded following the death ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Two unidentified men detonated a powerful improvised explosive device at an Indian restaurant in Canada’s Ontario province, injuring at least 15 people, police said on Friday. Three of them have suffered “critical blast injuries” and were rushed to a Toronto trauma centre, Canadian broadcaster CBC reported. Police said that the incident occurred at Bombay Bhel restaurant in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Uttarakhand Government to submit within four weeks a percentage-wise compliance report on steps taken by it to clean the Ganga in the stretch between Gomukh and Haridwar. A Bench, headed by acting NGT Chairperson Justice Jawad Rahim, asked the government to make a categorical statement about the stage of ...

The UNICEF today launched a ‘data visualisation app’ which provides a user-friendly visual representation of complex analytics of the education scenario in the country. The app has been made with technical inputs from the UNICEF, in collaboration with the National Institute of Education Planning and Administration (NIEPA) and the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). It uses the ...