NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The government’s proposed General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR), which will come into effect on April 1, will not harass honest taxpayers, but is aimed at tax evaders, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told lawmakers on Tuesday. Mukherjee said he proposed to introduce the new rule to counter aggressive tax avoidance schemes in his  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) The Lok Sabha is likely to consider a censure motion against anti-graft activist Anna Hazare and his team members, asking them to refrain from using derogatory language against members of parliament. The censure motion, if adopted and voted in favour by a majority in the house, would mean that Team  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, March 27 (IANS) Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare Tuesday renewed his attack on MPs, asking who was responsible for not passing the Lokpal bill despite its introduction eight times. In reply to a question raised by “several politicians” that it would be parliament that would pass the bill, Hazare said in his blog that  [ Read More ]

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day on Monday after members cutting across party lines protested Anna Hazare’s allegations of corruption against politicians. The issue was raised by irate members earlier in the day. Speaker Meira Kumar allowed some leaders to express their views when the house reconvened at 2 p.m. Suggesting  [ Read More ]

Hyderabad, March 26 (IANS) One more person died Monday and another was battling burn injuries after he attempted to immolate himself for separate statehood to Telangana, prompting the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) to call for a shutdown in the region to demand immediate action from the central government. Two days after an MBA student committed  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) Parliament was adjourned till 2 p.m. Monday, with one house disrupted over the demand for a separate state of Telangana and the other over the army chief’s allegation that he had been offered a bribe to clear a tranche of 600 substandard vehicles. The Rajya Sabha was adjourned after the  [ Read More ]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s army chief General Vijay Kumar Singh has said in a newspaper interview that he was offered a bribe of 140 million rupees by an equipment lobbyist, sparking a furore in parliament on Monday. Singh, who heads the world’s second largest standing army, made the allegations in an interview to The  [ Read More ]

Bhubaneshwar:  Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members on Saturday created an uproar in Odisha assembly over the abduction of a tribal member by Maoists. The members shouted slogans against the government and trooped towards the speaker as soon as the question hour started. They were noisy even when Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik tried to  [ Read More ]

Koraput, Odisha:  A tribal MLA of the ruling BJD in Odisha was abducted by Maoists in Koraput district in the early hours today, police said. Jhina Hikaka, legislator from Laxmipur, was returning home from Koraput when more than 50 armed rebels stopped his vehicle near Toyaput, Koraput Superintendent of Police Avinash Kumar said. While the  [ Read More ]

New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday accused the Congress of not being serious about getting the Lokpal bill passed. “We want the (Lokpal) bill to be passed, but the Congress is not willing to pass the bill because there is no real intention to fight corruption,” BJP Rajya Sabha member  [ Read More ]