Yoga's importance is like "salt in life": PM

Lucknow, Jun 21:Yoga has same importance as "salt" has in life, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here today and maintained that yoga can act as a great unifying factor and has lately given a boost to India's global reach too.Yoga has gained popularity among various countries across the globe, he said.
"It is due to yoga the world has started getting associated with India in a new manner and with renewed respect and enthusiasm," Modi said while beginning the third edition of the International Day for Yoga."Today, yoga has become a part of so many lives.Yoga's popularity outside India is high and has connected the world with India," he said.Modi performed Yoga postures at Ramabai Ambedkar Ground sitting with more than 55,000 people.  

UBER CEO RESIGNS..

Travis Kalanick has resigned as the chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing startup he co-founded and turned into a global tech giant.Kalanick already announced last week that he was going on an indefinite leave of absencefollowing the death of his mother in a boating accident. But the move failed to defuse a growing crisis over his leadership and demands from investors that he resign from the $68 billion startup. "I love Uber more than anything in the world and at this difficult moment in my personal life I have accepted the investors request to step aside so that Uber can go back to building rather than be distracted with another fight," Kalanick said in a statement ,uaccording to an Uber spokesperson.

Govt introduces Income Tax amendment Bill in LS .

The Government today introduced the Taxation Laws(Second Amendment) Bill in the Lok Sabha aimed at imposing a higher rate of tax and levy of penalty in respect of certain incomes.Through this Bill, brought in the wake of demonetisation, the government is giving an opportunity to those with undisclosed income to pay taxes with heavy penalty and allow them to come clean, and bring the remaining part of the income legitimately into the formal economy.

Cash deficit hits market..

Mumbai, Nov 27 : The Centre's demonetisation move has hit various businesses, with some seeing a drop of nearly 50 per cent in sales, according to experts.

"Not only the businesses in the financial capital Mumbai and neighbouring Navi Mumbai and Thane, there is steep drop of 50 per cent in all businesses of fruits, vegetable, food grains, dry fruits due the cash flow crisis," said Sanjay Pansare, a fruit trader and former director of Navi Mumbai APMC, the biggest wholesale market of the state.

"Vegetables are perishing. We are unable to pay cash to truckers who normally charge up to Rs 1 lakh for transporting apples from Kashmir to Mumbai and they are not accepting cheque. Earlier, we would get 325 trucks of fruits everyday which has reduced to 175 trucks per day." 

Not just wholesalers, but retailers and small traders are facing taxing times though they are still supportive of the government's demonetisation move.

GoM on Telangana to submit report in 6 weeks

NEWDHILLI,October 5:   A day after the Union Cabinet cleared the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh to create Telangana, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde  said,  a 10-member Group of Ministers (GoM) would give its report within six weeks comprising recommendations on various crucial issues, including the boundary of the new State, so that the bill on the new State could be tabled in Parliament in the winter session. The GoM includes Ministers for Home, Finance, Law, Water Resources, Human Resource Development, Urban Development, Road Transport and Highways, Power and Personnel Ministers, besides the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman. It would make recommendations on the boundaries of Telangana, division of bureaucracy and sharing of assets and resources, including river water and irrigation projects. ” The GoM has also been mandated to “go into the various issues which concern both States  and suggest appropriate measures to address them.” It will also “work out the modalities for provision of special financial disbursements required for the setting up of a new capital for the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh and to meet the special needs of the backward regions and districts of the two States.”Since the Cabinet has recommended that “the city of Hyderabad will function as the common capital for both the States for a period of 10 years,” the GoM would have to look into the legal and administrative measures required to ensure that both State governments function efficiently from Hyderabad. The GoM will also study issues related to law and order in the region. 

4 militants killed in Keran sector...

Jammu,October 5:  The Army on Saturday foiled a major infiltration bid along the LoC in Keran sector of Kashmir, killing four militants, as the operation against the infiltrating ultras in the area entered the 12th day. Six AK rifles were recovered from the spot, the spokesman said. A group of heavily-armed militants had tried to infiltrate into Kashmir through Keran sector on September 24 but were intercepted by the Army. 

Badrinath shrine reopens for pilgrims

DEHRADUN,APRIL 29: The portals of famous Himalayan shrine of Badrinath were reopened on sunday amid snowfall, a day after Kedarnath was thrown open for Pilgrims. Amid blowing of conches and chanting of vedic hymns and shlokas, the chief priest of Badrinath shrine opened the doors of the shrine at 04:00 hrs early morning. During the opening ceremony of the shrine, situated at a height of 3,133 meter in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, hundreds of devotees, including industrialist Anil Ambani and corporate lobbyist Nira Radia, were present outside the sanctum sanctorum braving snowfall and chilly winds.Badrinath and Kedarnath are among the four holy places visited by pilgrims during the 'chaardham yatra' in Uttarakhand. The two other places are Gangotri and Yamunotri.