Rumita Patel
NEW DELHI: Honda Cars India announced Thursday that the Amaze subcompact sedan has cumulatively sold four lakhs of units since its introduction in 2013. The Amaze, now in its second generation, is currently Honda’s best-selling model in India. The Honda Amaze is powered by a BS-6 compliant 1.5L i-DTEC diesel engine and a 1.2L i-VTEC…
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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the registration of BS4 vehicles, which were sold in March, but was unable to complete the process due to the Covid-19 induced lockdown period. The high court had withdrawn on July 8 its March 27 order allowing the sale of BS4 vehicles for 10 days in all…
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CHENNAI: DMK fired Ku Ka Selvam MLA from the party’s main membership and all other positions he held on Thursday for engaging in anti-party activities. Chosen from the constituency of the Thousand Lights assembly in Chennai, Selvam was recently suspended from the party after meeting with BJP National Chairman JP Nadda in New Delhi on…
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday emphasized the role of tax compliance in nation-building, saying the government is following a policy-driven model of governance. “The emphasis is on making each standard, people-centered and public-friendly policy. This is the use of the new governance model and the country is getting its results,” he said…
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NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled the highly anticipated ‘Transparent Taxes – Honoring Honesty’ platform on Thursday to “reform and simplify our tax system.” The next phase of direct tax reforms aims to facilitate compliance and reward honest taxpayers, as the government seeks to rebuild the pandemic-hit economy. These are the key points of…
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NEW DELHI: Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s condition continues to be critical and he remains on respiratory support, the Army Research and Referral hospital said Wednesday. The former president was admitted to the R&R hospital in the Delhi cantonment on August 10 and underwent surgery to remove a clot in his brain. Shri Pranab Mukherjee’s health…
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NEW DELHI: ByteDance of China is in initial talks with Reliance Industries Ltd for an investment in its TikTok video-based app business in India, a tech website reported citing sources. The two companies started talks late last month and have yet to reach an agreement, according to the report. Reliance, ByteDance and TikTok did not…
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Microsoft’s first Android smartphone is here: Surface Duo. And from the looks of it, the dual-screen Android smartphone looks like a formidable rival to Apple’s iPhone. Announced almost a year ago (October 2019), the Microsoft Surface Duo rumor has been floating around almost ever since. The smartphone has now been reserved in the US Sales…
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WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has relaxed some rules for H-1B visa holders that allow them to enter the United States if they return to the same jobs they held prior to the proclamation of the visa ban. The adviser to the US State Department said that dependents (spouses and children) will also be able to…
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NEW DELHI: A decade and a half after the Sachar Committee highlighted the problem, a report from the National Statistical Office reveals that Muslims are on various criteria of academic marginalization as bad or even worse than SC and ST. The report shows that among the various social groups, the literacy rate for those aged…
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