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BCCI may consider a WADA anti-doping clause "unreasonable" but the Pakistan Cricket Board disagrees and believes the Indian players are unlikely to be exempted from signing the document despite their Board's tough stand.

A grandfathering clause will spare existing investments from capital gains tax and make GAAR applicable only on new inflows on and after the date the rules come into force.

Mauritius is willing to plug loopholes to allay India's concerns over the misuse of the double taxation avoidance agreement.

India and Mauritius initiated a high-level review of the double taxation avoidance treaty, which helps companies to escape the tax net.

Germany, under Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, plans significant investments in defense and infrastructure. This move signals a shift from fiscal restraint. The plan, however, tests the EU's fiscal rules. Concerns arise about potential violations of deficit and debt limits. Some fear this could set a precedent, prompting other nations to demand similar flexibility.

Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje may have managed to wriggle out of the bloody Gujjar-Meena confrontation.

KOLKATA: Sushmita Banerjee, better known as ‘Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou’, may move court to stop a film being made based on three semi-autobiographical novels written by her detailing life in Afghanistan under Taliban.

Though the new selection policy of NRAI has come under fire from some top shooters, the sports ministry backed the NRAI saying that it is a comprehensive policy.

The Indian cricketers have given the International Cricket Council an escape clause to drop the contentious clause on ambush marketing by asking it to go back to the sponsors and explain the players’ viewpoint. The ‘co-incidental’ visit of ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed to Mumbai where he will meet Indian sponsors might well resolve the controversy threatening to hurt the cricket world.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has revealed an 800-billion-euro defence plan to strengthen Europe's military capabilities. The 'ReArm Europe Plan' aims to increase national defence spending, streamline joint procurement, and enhance support for Ukraine, emphasizing collective European security investment.

Unauthorized use of beacons and revolving lights atop cars remains a problem police are yet to stop.

State government does not appear to be serious in implementing the recommendations of Priyadarshi Dash commission.

With the Union budget 2012 tightening the noose around firms delaying the process of TDS (tax deduction at source) filing, hectic activity has unfolded in the city.

India and Bangladesh are scheduled to sign the much-awaited extradition treaty next month in Dhaka.

Real Madrid misjudged David Beckham this season and blundered over their treatment of the player, according to coach Fabio Capello.

About a dozen cases of poor Hyderabadi girls being married to 'old, infirm and diseased Arabs' have come to light.

The Rajya Sabha was adjourned sine die midnight amid uproar without passing the Lokpal and Lokayukta Bill, 2011, even after day-long debate.

The government doesn’t want to be legally obliged to provide subsidized rations to the poor — under the National Food Security Bill (NFSB) — when they needed them most such as during droughts, floods, fire, cyclones, earthquakes and other natural calamities.

Two petitioners from the community told the Supreme Court that the government should take action against rogue elements but must not deport innocent Rohingya who fled Myanmar to escape death and persecution.

Turning a blind eye to security arrangements will cost dearly to financial institutions including banks.

Anti-graft crusader Anna Hazare will address a national conclave on the foreigners' issue on November 7, KMSS general secretary Akhil Gogoi said on Saturday.

Two security personnel were injured in the attack, which was the fourth attempt on the life of the former Nagaland chief minister.

A top cadre of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) was shot dead in a counter insurgency operation in Durama hills, near Khakwa Duragre village in East Garo Hills, early on Thursday.

It is a known fact that the destruction of nature will lead to the destruction of mankind, yet our government has not been too prudent with its environmental policies.

As government promised to look into the issue of lowering the age to define a juvenile and may approach Parliament for it, it has started consultation with several stake-holders on the issue keeping in view all provisions of the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act ahead of taking a decision.

The government has decided against amending rules for FDI through the automatic route.

Turning a blind eye to security arrangement will cost dear for financial institutions including banks.

For a cricket board that's used the term 'transparency' as the catch-word in recent years, it's not auguring well that the BCCI has chosen to sign a three-year kit sponsorship deal without a tender process or even an Expression of Interest, especially with a company that's in directly in conflict with one of its own existing partners and does not meet the initial eligibility criteria.