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Water connections under Jal Jeevan Mission to come with a cost: Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Sonal Khetarpal | New Delhi

"The vision of the Prime Minister is that this move will instill a sense of ownership amongst the villagers as they would have contributed to the vision of making drinking water available in their village a reality," Shekhawat said

Piyush Goyal proposes Tejas-like compensation for delayed freight delivery

I-T Dept doubles back, allows joint house owners to file ITR-1 Sahaj, ITR-4 Sugam forms

Bankruptcy board notifies IBC amendments; here are the new norms for creditors, liquidators

The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in December had agreed to promulgate an ordinance for further amend the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

SEBI introduces stewardship code for all mutual funds, AIFs

CBIC makes electronic DIN mandatory for all communications to taxpayers, including emails

CBIC has reiterated that any communication with the electronically generated DIN will be treated as invalid and deemed to have never been issued

Personal Data Protection Bill 2019: Unrestrained power to central government may undermine privacy

What is Citizenship Amendment Bill? Why is it problematic?

DPIIT to discuss draft e-commerce policy on data storage on January 14

India's competition watchdog calls for more transparency on discounts by e-commerce platforms

Ringing in 2020: Upcoming reforms in Indian education sector

Stakeholders hope 2020 will see crucial steps to strengthen Indian education, including skill development, innovative funding

NITI Aayog member bats for two GST slabs, annual rate revision

NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand said that when a large taxation reforms like GST are brought in, there are always "teething problems" but soon they stabilise

Cabinet approves changes to insolvency law; sanctions funds for NPR, Census 2021

Now a new GST filing system to curb input credit frauds

The GST Network (GSTN), the entity that offers the IT support to the GST system, has now come up with a new way to deal with the rampant ITC fraud

Citizenship Amendment Bill passed in Rajya Sabha with 125 votes

Earlier, the Rajya Sabha rejected motions to send the bill to a select committee of the House with 124 members voting against it as compared to 99 in its favour