‘Food doesn’t have religion’: Zomato after customer seeks non-Muslim rider

The company stood its ground and refused to change the delivery executive

Food delivery company Zomato is winning the internet after it refused on Wednesday to resolve a customer’s complaint about being assigned a Muslim delivery executive for his food order.

“Food doesn’t have a religion. It is a religion,” the company tweeted in response to the customer’s request for change of the rider. On Tuesday night, a man tweeted about cancelling his order placed on Zomato as the designated rider was a “non-Hindu”.

“Just cancelled an order on Zomato they allocated a non hindu rider for my food they said they can’t change rider and can’t refund on cancellation I said you can’t force me to take a delivery I don’t want don’t refund just cancel,” Amit Shukla, a resident of Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, tweeted.

In a series of tweets, he also shared screenshots of his conversation with Zomato’s customer care, saying he would take up the issue with his lawyers. The company stood its ground and refused to change the delivery executive. ..(Read More)

Bill introduced in US Congress to ban unlimited scrolling on social media

The bill would ban infinite, automatic content additions when users approach the end of feeds on sites. It wouldn’t apply to music-streaming sites or pre-compiled playlists

Republican Senator Josh Hawley introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban unlimited scrolling on pages by social media sites such as Facebook and Google’s YouTube.

The bill would ban infinite, automatic content additions when users approach the end of feeds on sites. It wouldn’t apply to music-streaming sites or pre-compiled playlists. The proposed legislation, which is unlikely to pass, represents the latest initiative by Hawley targeting large technology platforms as he emerges as one of the sector’s foremost Republican foes. Earlier in July, he addressed President Donald Trump’s gathering of conservative anti-tech voices, which also attracted conspiracy theorists and internet trolls.

Hawley has proposed other bills targeting the industry, including one US Congress to ban allegedly addictive features of video games and another requiring that companies face lawsuits for the user content they host if they don’t demonstrate political neutrality. “Big tech has embraced a business model of addiction,” Hawley said in a statement. “Too much of the ‘innovation’ in this space is designed not to create better products, but to capture more attention by using psychological tricks that make it difficult to look away.”

Hawley’s bill would require that social media companies set a 30-minute limit for time on spent on their platforms. Users could change the limit, which would automatically reset monthly. The legislation would also require that companies send 30-minute alerts to users that set longer time limits.

Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, heir to Al-Qaeda leadership, killed: US media

In 2017 he was placed on the US terrorist blacklist, seen as a potent future figurehead for the group then led by Osama bin Laden’s former deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri

Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza, chosen heir to the leadership of Al-Qaeda, has been killed, US media reported Wednesday citing American officials. NBC News said three US officials had confirmed they had information of Hamza bin Laden’s death, but gave no details of the place or date. The New York Times subsequently cited two US officials saying they had confirmation that he was killed during the last two years in an operation that involved the United States.

Questioned by reporters in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump did not confirm or deny the NBC report. “I don’t want to comment on it,” he said. Both reports suggested that Osama bin Laden may have been killed well before the US State Department announced a $1 million bounty on his head in February 2019. The 15th of Osama bin Laden’s 20 children and a son of his third wife, Hamza, thought to be about 30 years old, was “emerging as a leader in the Al-Qaeda franchise,” the State Department said in announcing the reward.

Sometimes dubbed the “crown prince of jihad, he had put out audio and video messages calling for attacks on the United States and other countries, especially to avenge his father’s killing by US forces in Pakistan in May 2011, the department said.

Trump not behaving like a patriot: US Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard

The first ever Hindu to be elected to the US House of Representatives, Gabbard vowed that she would fight for the rights and freedom of all Americans

Pledging to bring the “unifying spirit of love for the country”, Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard Wednesday night alleged that President Donald Trump was not behaving like a patriot.

Appearing on a CNN Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Gabbard is the first Hindu to ever run for the presidency of the United States said she knew what patriotism was. “I love our country. It’s why I enlisted after 9/11. I have served as a soldier for over 16 years, deployed twice to the Middle East and serving in the Congress for almost seven years. I know what patriotism is and I’ve known many great patriots throughout my life,” she said.

“And let me tell you this, Donald Trump is not behaving like a patriot. As president, I will bring the spirit of real patriotism to the White House, serving the interests of all Americans, not just the rich and powerful,” asserted Gabbard, the four-term Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii. The first ever Hindu to be elected to the US House of Representatives, Gabbard vowed that she would fight for the rights and freedom of all Americans, upholding the principles in the Constitution upon which the country was founded…

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Coffee king Siddhartha’s death exposes India’s mounting debt crisis

Siddhartha’s death marks a tragic turn for an admired member of India’s business elite and an executive closely connected to the highest echelons of the political sphere

Even before the body of coffee-chain tycoon V.G. Siddhartha was recovered from a river in southern India this week, the financial strains that appear to have led him to take his own life were beginning to emerge.

A letter purportedly written and signed by VG Siddhartha and sent to senior management of Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd. laid out in stark words his struggles with a “serious liquidity crunch” that in turn had led to “tremendous pressure” from lenders and an unnamed private-equity investor.

“I would like to say I gave it my all,” Siddhartha wrote. “I am very sorry to let down all the people that put their trust in me. I fought for a long time but today I gave up.” He sent the note to the board on July 27. Two days later, the executive was reported missing after telling his driver he’d go for a stroll.

Siddhartha’s death marks a tragic turn for an admired member of India’s business elite and an executive closely connected to the highest echelons of the political sphere….

SC seeks to know why Unnao rape victim’s letter to CJI didn’t reach him

The court also asked the Uttar Pradesh authorities to file a status report by Thursday on the accident of the Unnao rape case victim

The Supreme Court on Wednesday looked for a report from its secretary general about why a letter composed by the Unnao assault unfortunate casualty to Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, capturing risk to her life, was not set before him.

“Sadly, the letter is yet to see the light of the day but then the papers flashed it as though I have perused the letter,” Justice Gogoi said. The perceptions came when senior legal counselor V Giri, who is helping the court as an amicus curiae in tyke assault cases, looked for earnest posting of the Unnao rape case. The court likewise asked the Uttar Pradesh specialists to document a status report by Thursday on the mishap of the Unnao assault case injured individual.

The 19-year-elderly person, who was purportedly assaulted two years back by BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar at his living arrangement in Unnao, was fundamentally harmed in a fender bender on Sunday. She was going with her family when their vehicle was hit by a speeding truck in the northern state……

In victory for govt, Rajya Sabha passes Bill to ban instant triple talaq

On paper, as many as 136 members should have opposed the Bill in a House of 241 members

Politics News:  With the Rajya Sabha passing the Bill on Tuesday evening, Parliament has affirmed a law to make moment triple talaq a criminal offense. Under the proposed law, which the restriction as well as two of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP’s) partners contradicted, guilty parties will get a three-year prison term.

The feature of the day, be that as it may, was the Narendra Modi government dealing with the numbers in help of the Bill in the Rajya Sabha. The administration would have endured a humiliating thrashing if every single ideological group who contradicted the Bill had strolled the discussion.

The test before the BJP’s floor strategists was more troublesome than it had confronted a week ago when the Rajya Sabha had taken up a Bill to change the Right to Information (RTI) law. In contrast to the prior case, its partners the Janata Dal (United) and the AIADMK contradicted the Triple Talaq Bill. Gatherings that had either bolstered the legislature or exited during the discussion on the RTI Bill, especially the YSR Congress and the Telangana Rashtra Samiti, additionally restricted the Bill. On paper, upwards of 136 individuals ought to have restricted the Bill in a House of 241 individuals. The Bill was passed with 99 to 84 cast a ballot.

With Home Minister Amit Shah present in the House, BJP’s Piyush Goyal, Bhupender Yadav, CM Ramesh and Pralhad Joshi contacted resistance groups and MPs. Some were persuaded to missing themselves, others to arrange a walkout. The AIADMK and JD(U) individuals exited subsequent to stating they restricted the Bill.

Over 900 children separated at US border, ACLU urges judge to take action

US District Court Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego ordered the reunification of more than 2,800 migrant children in a court supervised process

International News: The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday requested that a bureaucratic judge stop the Trump organization’s progressing division of families at the US-Mexico fringe, saying the administration had taken in excess of 900 kids from their folks since the arrangement formally finished a year ago.

In June 2018, the legislature said it would end its “zero resilience” strategy of arraigning the individuals who illicitly cross the fringe and isolating them from their kids after an open objection and a lawful test by the ACLU. US District Court Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego requested the reunification of in excess of 2,800 vagrant kids in a court directed procedure.

On Tuesday, the ACLU returned to court guaranteeing that the legislature was all the while isolating families, making special cases to its promise to end the practise. “The government is methodicallly isolating huge quantities of families dependent on minor criminal history, very questionable charges of unfitness, and blunders in distinguishing true blue parent-kid connections.”

The Trump organization has attempted to prevent record quantities of transient families landing at the US-Mexico outskirt looking for asylum from neediness and brutality in nations like Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. The government has said it isolates families when it speculates the parent has a criminal record or questions the connection between the grown-up and the vagrant tyke..

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CCD crisis: I-T officer draws flak for tax terrorism day before retirement

The officer, from the 1983 batch Indian Revenue Service, will retire on Wednesday as Bengaluru’s I-T chief commissioner

The man under the spotlight of expense psychological warfare banter — B R Balakrishnan, boss chief of annual assessment (I-T), Bengaluru — was amidst goodbye calls and farewells when a letter composed by missing Café Coffee Day chain author V G Siddhartha became famous online on Tuesday. The letter, routed to the board individuals and staff, had claimed badgering by the “past DG of I-T”, without naming him. A similar official, from the 1983 bunch Indian Revenue Service, will resign on Wednesday (July 31) as Bengaluru’s I-T boss chief.

Balakrishnan would not respond to the India Inc analysis of developing episodes of assessment fear mongering following VG Siddhartha‘s letter. Showing up determined, he revealed to Business Standard, ”I just put stock in carrying out my responsibility well.”

As of late, Balakrishnan was gotten in a political contention over a progression of attacks completed by his group. At that point alliance legislature of Karnataka driven by H D Kumaraswamy had grumbled to the Election Commission against this I-T official for “picketing outside its office”. Kumaraswamy and different priests had asserted “particular assaults” on supporters of JD(S) and Congress in front of races.

Preceding joining as DG (Investigation), Balakrishnan had worked in the Investigation Wing of the IT division in Chennai and Mumbai. In 2017, a test driven by Balakrishnan had uncovered the ‘gutkha trick’ where fixes were paid to Tamil Nadu priests…Read More

Cafe Coffee Day founder V G Siddhartha’s body found from river: Report

Siddhartha, the founder of India’s largest coffee chain, went missing on Monday night en route to the coastal Karnataka city of Mangaluru

Companies News: The assortment of Cafe Coffee Day originator V G Siddhartha has been found from the Nethravathi waterway, as indicated by TV covers Wednesday. Siddhartha’s body was found on the banks of the waterway close to the Hoige Bazaar in Mangaluru, as per news office ANI. Siddhartha, the originator of India’s biggest espresso chain, disappeared on Monday night on the way to the beach front Karnataka city of Mangaluru, with a letter purportedly composed by him indicating he was under “huge weight” from loan specialists and one of the private value accomplices (PEs). The letter additionally claimed “a great deal of provocation” from duty experts.

A monstrous pursuit task including groups of the National Disaster Response Force, Coast Guard, Home Guard, fire administrations and seaside police had proceeded all through Tuesday. Search groups had scoured the waters under an extension over the Nethravathi stream close Mangaluru where the 60-year-old agent was supposedly last observed.

The child of an espresso estate proprietor, VG Siddhartha had made the Indian adversary to Starbucks. Originating from a family that has a 140-year history of developing espresso, he at first fiddled with stock exchanging, before setting his foot in the espresso business. In the wake of being roused by a talk with the proprietors of German espresso chain Tchibo, Siddhartha chose to open his very own chain of bistros in India. With the slogan ‘A great deal can occur over some espresso’, he opened Cafe Coffee Day’s first outlet on Bangalore’s upscale Brigade Road in 1994…

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VG Siddhartha’s wife to IAS officer: Who are the CCD board members?

Cafe chain Coffee Day Enterprises on Tuesday confirmed that Chairman and Managing Director V G Siddhartha has been missing since Monday evening.

Bistro chain Coffee Day Enterprises on Tuesday affirmed that Chairman and Managing Director V G Siddhartha has been absent since Monday evening. “V G Siddhartha, Chairman and Managing Director of Coffee Day Enterprises Limited isn’t reachable since yesterday evening. We are taking the assistance of concerned specialists,” Coffee Day Enterprises said in an administrative documenting.

“Organization is expertly overseen and driven by skilled authority group, which will guarantee progression of business,” the documenting included. Portions of Cafe Coffee Day Enterprises failed 20 percent and hit the lower circuit limit just as 52-week low of Rs 154.05 each on BSE after news surfaced that its author has disappeared.

In his last letter to the load up, Siddhartha said he had battled for quite a while, yet was surrendering as he couldn’t take any more weight from one of the private value accomplices who was driving him to repurchase shares. Siddhartha said that “colossal weight” from different banks had caused him to surrender to the circumstance.

Here is a rundown of the CCD board individuals

Malavika Hegde: Wife of Mr. V.G. Siddhartha and little girl of previous Karnataka CM, SM Krishna, she is accountable for the general obligations of working the accommodation business since 2008.

S.V. Ranganath: An officer of Karnataka of 1975 cadre of the Indian Administrative Service, Ranganath has worked as a civil servant in various capacities, including as…

Uttar Pradesh govt in a dock after Unnao rape survivor’s car accident

In spite of the fact that UP Police rushed to name it ‘prime facie’ a street mishap, the Opposition smelt a rodent and requested a CBI test in the issue,

Current Affairs: Around a similar time, when Union Home Minister Amit Shah was waxing articulate on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow for improving peace and controling politicization of government, the assault survivor — for a situation including a decision BJP administrator — was egregiously injured in a street mishap in Rae Bareli region, while her kinfolk were killed.

Despite the fact that UP Police rushed to name it ‘prime facie’ a street mishap, the Opposition smelt a rodent and requested a CBI test in the issue, or that the Supreme Court request an autonomous examination.

The assault survivor, joined by her two aunties, sister and a legal counselor, was heading out via vehicle to meet her uncle Mahesh Singh, held up in Rae Bareli area correctional facility for supposedly attacking Atul Singh, the sibling of administrator Kuldeep Singh Sengar.

While her aunties were executed, the assault survivor, her sister and their legal counselor supported heinous wounds when their vehicle was hit head-on by a truck. The harmed were moved to King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, where their condition is expressed to be basic.

In last letter to CCD board, Siddhartha blamed lenders, tax authorities

Siddhartha said he had never intended to cheat or mislead anybody and that there were adequate assets to repay everybody

Current Affairs: In his last letter to the Coffee Day Enterprises’ governing body dated July 27, its fellow benefactor V G Siddhartha said he had battled for quite a while, however was surrendering as he couldn’t takes any more weight from one of the private value accomplices who was driving him to repurchase shares. Siddhartha, who is absent since Monday night, had said that “colossal weight” from different loan specialists had caused him to capitulate to the circumstance.

In the letter, Siddhartha likewise asserted badgering by the past DG, Income Tax through joining of offers on two separate events to hinder the Mindtree arrangement and after that claiming Cofee Day shares. The substance of the letter were posted on Twitter by CNBC-TV18.

V G Siddhartha, previous Karnataka boss clergyman SM Krishna’s child in-law, is suspected to have bounced off an extension in Mangaluru on Monday night, the Times of India gave an account of Tuesday. As indicated by the report, the news developed after the Mangaluru City Police began a quest for an individual who had hopped off the kilometer-long Ullal connect on Monday night.

“I might want to state I gave it my everything. I am exceptionally sorry to learn down every one of the general population that put their trust in me,” he wrote in the letter, which was likewise routed to the more extensive Coffee Day family…

Cafe Coffee Day founder VG Siddhartha missing in Mangaluru: Report

The news emerged after the Mangaluru City Police started a search

Current Affairs: Bistro Coffee Day (CCD) originator and previous Karnataka Chief Minister, SM Krishna’s child in-law, V G Siddhartha, is suspected to have hopped off an extension in Mangaluru on Monday night, the Times of India gave an account of Tuesday.

As indicated by the report, the news developed after the Mangaluru City Police began a quest for an individual who had hopped off the kilometer-long Ullal connect on Monday night. The report said that one of the cops affirmed that an individual was suspected to have hopped off the Ullal connect, which is worked over the River Nethravathi, at 9pm. A pursuit activity is currently in progress while his cell phone is accounted for to be turned off.

As per the report, in view of the announcement of an individual, supposedly a vehicle driver, the individual being referred to is suspected to be V G Siddhartha. Siddhartha had been in the news not long ago when news organization PTI had revealed that IT organization Mindtree found certain abnormalities in exposures made by him. Siddhartha had sold his stake in Mindtree to L&T, and it had made a move against him as per the law.

“On the vow exposure issue, there was a revelation that he made at certain purpose of time of all the promise. By then of time, there were a few inconsistencies in his revelations. Our load up and review advisory group assessed it and dealt with it according to the standard that were winning by then of time,” Mindtree CEO Rostow Ravanan had said in those days…

How Jack Ma’s $290 billion loan machine is changing Chinese banking

The financial-technology boom that turned China into the world’s biggest market for electronic payments is now changing how banks interact with companies that drive most of its economic growth

Jack Ma’s online bank is driving a peaceful upheaval in the manner China loans to private ventures, training in on a credit bottleneck that has kept down Asia’s biggest economy for a considerable length of time.

Utilizing constant installments information and a hazard the executives framework that dissects in excess of 3,000 factors, Jack Ma‘s four-year-old MYbank has loaned 2 trillion yuan ($290 billion) to almost 16 million little organizations. Borrowers apply with a couple of taps on a cell phone and get money right away on the off chance that they’re affirmed. The entire procedure takes three minutes and includes zero human brokers. The default rate up until this point: about 1%.

The money related innovation blast that transformed China into the world’s greatest market for electronic installments is currently changing how banks associate with organizations that drive the majority of the country’s financial development. As MYbank and its companions crunch reams of new information from installment frameworks, internet based life and different sources, they’re developing increasingly OK with littler borrowers that they recently evaded for state-claimed goliaths…

At least 36 killed and 15 missing after landslide buries Chinese village

The state-run People’s Daily said rescue work is ongoing at the site in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, where a thick torrent of mud buried 22 houses in the landslide on Tuesday

The death toll in a landslide which buried a village in southwest China rose to 36, state broadcaster CCTV said on Sunday, with 15 still missing days after the disaster struck. The state-run People’s Daily said rescue work is ongoing at the site in Shuicheng county, Guizhou province, where a thick torrent of mud buried 22 houses in the landslide on Tuesday.

CCTV broadcast footage of rescue workers trying to reach survivors through a huge mound of earth, and excavators digging through the collapsed hill. Two children and a mother with a baby were among those dead. Official news agency Xinhua said Saturday night that 40 people had been rescued from the site, according to the local emergency rescue command.(Click Here: International News)

Xinhua said a local school had been set up as an emergency medical and rescue centre, with “multiple rescue teams and experts” still searching for those missing. The government has earmarked 30 million yuan ($4.35 million) for search and rescue efforts in the province, Xinhua reported, as well as the relocation of victims…

PM Modi to discuss wildlife issues in Discovery’s ‘Man vs Wild’ episode

The episode will premiere on August 12 and will be showcased in more than 180 countries across the world on Discovery network of channels.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will feature in a special episode of Discovery’s “Man Vs Wild” which will highlight “issues related to environmental change.” According to a statement from the channel, the special episode, featuring survivalist and adventurer Bear Grylls and shot in the India’s Jim Corbett National Park, will be a “frank and freewheeling journey” which will throw light on wildlife conservation.

The Man vs Wild episode will premiere on August 12 and will be showcased in more than 180 countries across the world on Discovery network of channels. “For years, I have lived among nature, in the mountains and the forests. These years have a lasting impact on my life. So when I was asked about a special programme focussing on life beyond politics and that too in the midst of nature I was both intrigued and inclined to take part in it,” the PM said in a statement.

“For me, this show presents a great opportunity to showcase to the world India’s rich environmental heritage and stress on the importance of environment conservation and living in harmony with nature. It was a great experience spending time in the jungle once again, this time with Bear, who is blessed with indefatigable energy and quest to experience nature at its purest,” he added…

Tiger population rose to 2,967 from 2,226 in 2014, says PM Modi

The tiger population in India has increased from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,967 in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here.

Latest News: India becomes “one of the biggest and safest habitats” for tigers said Prime Minister Narendra Modi marking the International Tiger Day on Monday. The Prime Minister also released the All India Tiger Estimation 2018. The tiger population in India has increased from 2,226 in 2014 to 2,967 in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here.

“Nine long years ago, it was decided in St. Petersburg that the target of doubling the tiger population would be 2022. We in India completed this target four years early,” He said releasing the results of the fourth cycle of All India Tiger Estimation at his official residence. “The results of the just declared tiger census would make every Indian, every Nature lover happy,” he added.

He invoked two Bollywood movie titles to emphasise the need to expand and strengthen tiger conservation efforts. The story of protecting tigers that started with “Ek Tha Tiger” (there was once a tiger) and reached “Tiger Zinda Hai” (the tiger is alive) should not end there, he said, efforts towards conservation should be expanded and sped up…

Unnao rape survivor critical as truck rams into car; Oppn demands CBI probe

The assault survivor’s maternal auntie surrendered to wounds in a locale medical clinic and the others were moved to an injury focus in Lucknow, police said

A vehicle wherein the overcomer of Unnao assault case, her family and legal advisor were voyaging was hit by an over-speeding truck in Rae Bareli on Sunday, killing two individuals while leaving her and the supporter basically harmed, police said.

BJP MLA Kuldeep Sengar, who is a charged in the assault case, was captured on April 13 a year ago. Unnao Superintendent of Police Madhav Prasad Verma said the assault survivor, her fatherly and maternal aunties alongside their supporter met with a mishap while on their approach to meet her uncle, who is held up in Rae Bareli correctional facility. The assault survivor’s maternal auntie capitulated to wounds in a region emergency clinic and the others were moved to an injury focus in Lucknow, police said.

ADG Lucknow Rajeev Krishna stated, “Two ladies were executed in the mishap. The assault survivor and the attorney are in a basic condition and experiencing treatment at the injury focus in Lucknow.”(Click Here: Current affairs )

“The assault survivor’s family had been given security, however the heavy armament specialist had not went with them on Sunday. The purpose for it is being tested,” he stated, including, “The truck associated with the mishap has been seized. It has a Fatehpur locale enrollment plate.”

In the mean time, UP Congress pioneer Aradhana Mishra, who went to visit the harmed on the bearings of Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra told PTI, “The assault survivor is in a basic condition and the backer is on ventilator. As indicated by specialists, one individual had kicked the bucket on the spot, while another was announced dead upon their landing in the injury focus.”

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ITR 2019-20: A simple step-by-step guide to filing your income-tax return

Good news is that the income-tax department has extended the last date for filing ITR from July 31 to August 31, 2019

Filing Income Tax Returns (ITR) can be a tedious task. Before filing ITR, you will need to create an e-filing account on the Income Tax website, incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in and register yourself. Registration will be completed after you click the activation link sent via e-mail and enter the provided one-time password (OTP) received on your mobile. Click on ‘Registered User’ if you have already registered yourself on the website.

Important note: The income-tax department has extended last date of filing ITR, which is now August 31.

Here’s a step-by-step guide to filing Income Tax Returns (ITR):

A. Keep essential documents with you

Collect documents such as Form 16, salary slips, and interest certificates and Form 26AS. Keeping them handy will help you compute your gross taxable income and will provide you with the details of tax deducted at source (TDS) from your income in 2018-19.

B. Get Form 26AS: You can download Form 26AS from the TRACES website. To download it, login to your account on the e-filing website, click on ‘My Account’ tab and select ‘View Form 26AS…

Yeddyurappa to take oath as K’taka CM today, prove majority by Jul 31

Yeddyurappa also submitted a letter to the Governor staking claim to form government in the state

Latest News: Karnataka BJP boss BS Yeddyurappa is good to go to make vow as the 25th Chief Minister of the state on Friday. He should demonstrate dominant part in the Assembly by July 31. “I just met the Governor, I will make vow as Chief Minister today at 6 pm,” he told journalists not long after gathering Governor Vajubhai Vala at the Raj Bhavan.

Yeddyurappa likewise presented a letter to the Governor staking guarantee to shape government in the state, three days after the 14-month old Congress-JD (S) alliance government fell subsequent to losing the trust vote.

“I present that I am the Leader of BJP Legislature Party and furthermore the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly. At present, the quality of the BJP MLA is 105 and the single biggest gathering in the get together… I might be welcome to shape substitute government today itself and I will make vow as Chief Minister of Karnataka at Raj Bhavan between 6 pm to 6:15 pm,” Yeddyurappa wrote in his letter to the Governor.

The 76-year-old initially assumed responsibility as the Chief Minister of Karnataka in 2007 yet could clutch the post for insignificant seven days as the JD(S) pulled back help and President’s standard was forced in the state. He again cleared a path to the desired post in 2008, however inferable from defilement accusations neglected to finish a full term. During his subsequent term, he held the post from May 2008 to July 2011. He needed to leave following allegations of debasement in illicit land deregulation notice trick..

Yes, privacy crackdowns matter: Facebook is starting to feel the pinch

Analysts have been looking for Facebook’s growth rate to come in under 25 per cent for the rest of this year

Companies News: It’s anything but difficult to accept that Facebook Inc. is a relentless promoting power based on inescapable human observation and that resigned administrative or authoritative endeavors do nothing to stop it.

Regardless of those worries, the protection figuring for Facebook and the remainder of the web is imprinting the organization’s advertisement machine.

Facebook scared financial specialists a bit on Wednesday during a phone call to examine its second-quarter profit. Administrators said income development would moderate more than the organization recently expected toward the finish of this current year and into 2020, to a limited extent due to different confinements or deliberate constraints on Facebook‘s information gathering.

Facebook didn’t spill every one of the insights regarding the extent of this development droop or the causes. Europe’s severe information protection rules, forced a year ago, require Facebook to get unequivocal authorization from individuals for a wide range of information collecting that is viewed as ordinary in the US, and officials have said that a few Europeans are stating no.

Facebook’s income development in Europe is slower than the pace in the US and Canada and in the Asia-Pacific locale. Facebook has additionally said the European information guidelines are having an effect outside of that mainland, maybe on account of more consideration on Facebook’s protection rehearses…

Big wins for govt: LS passes Triple Talaq Bill, RTI Bill clears RS hurdle

Thursday’s was a rare occasion in the Rajya Sabha in the last six years that the government defeated an opposition resolution

Current Afffairs: The Narendra Modi government on Thursday ensured the passage of the triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha. Its bigger win was managing the numbers in the Rajya Sabha to get the amendments to the right to information law passed amid opposition protests. The government also extended the duration of the ongoing Parliament session, earlier scheduled to end on Friday, until August 7.

Thursday’s was a rare occasion in the Rajya Sabha in the last six years that the government defeated an opposition resolution. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance hopes to cross the majority mark by mid –next year, but Thursday’s victory gave a peep into its strategy in the House until then.

However, ensuring the passage of the triple talaq bill, when the Rajya Sabha takes it up next week, remains a concern for the government. Its ally Janata Dal (United), along with much of the opposition as well as some of the fence sitter regional parties that supported it on the RTI bill in the Rajya Sabha, opposed the triple talaq bill in the Lok Sabha.

As the Rajya Sabha rejected the opposition motion to send the RTI amendment bill to a House select committee for further scrutiny by 117 to 75 votes, opposition alleged “intimidation” tactics by treasury benches to influence voting.

Ministers and BJP members instructed NDA MPs and those of like-minded regional parties to vote against the motion. CPI (M)’s E Karim and Congress MPs protested when C M Ramesh, who had recently quit the TDP to join the BJP, tried to dictate voting behaviour of some members of his former party and later collected vote slips signed by members. Only officials are authorised to collect slips.

US says time to build upon commitments made during Imran Khan’s visit

We are working closely with the Pakistanis on recovering hostages, said US

In the wake of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to the US, wherein he met President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the United States on Thursday said the time had come to expand on those responsibilities.

“We are focused on harmony in Afghanistan. We imagine that was a significant advance. Furthermore, there was various issues that were talked about in the President’s gathering as well as with the Secretary’s gathering too, and this is the ideal opportunity to expand upon that gathering and expand upon those responsibilities,” State Department Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus told columnists at a news meeting.

Depicting Khan’s gathering with Trump and Pompeo prior this week as an “underlying” one, she said this allowed to the president and the secretary to meet the Pakistani leader and fabricate an individual association and affinity.(Click Here for International News)

“Presently we think the time has come to gain ground on the accomplishment of this first gathering. I would note something that the head administrator said that he pledged to ask the Taliban to consult with the Afghan government,” Ortagus said. The US, she stated, was focused on the battle against fear based oppression.

“With regards to battling fear mongering, you have a secretary of state who has been focused on this his whole profession and that is something that he is continually going to raise with partners and companions and whomever gets together,” Ortagus said. The US, she stated, was working with Pakistan to get prisoners discharged…

Is India running out of time to cash in on its booming young workforce?

India isn’t doing enough to revamp its education system to prepare the youth for better-paying, high-skilled jobs, going by a recent World Bank report

Economy News: India, which is home to more young people than any other country, is running out of time to harness the potential of its youth to drive economic growth. The nation’s population in the under-19 age group has already peaked, government data show. That means the labor force will grow more slowly from here on out. In just over 20 years, the South Asian nation will be an aging society, similar to where China is now, according to the Economic Survey published by the Finance Ministry earlier this month.

With those risks looming, India isn’t doing enough to revamp its education system to prepare the youth for better-paying, high-skilled jobs, going by a recent World Bank report. The world’s sixth-biggest economy, and until recently the fastest-growing major one, is ranked 115 out of 157 countries in the Human Capital Index, which measures the investment in education and health care for young people.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget this month allocated 3.4 per cent of total annual spending to the ministry in charge of education, little changed from the last few years and down from 3.8 per cent in 2015. The government’s own review of public schools says “it is common knowledge” that the country’s education system suffers from a shortage of teachers and staff, poor teacher training and delays in receiving funds.