Remark dogs V K Singh, SC/ST panel tells UP govt to file case
The National Commission
for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has said V K Singh's “dog analogy“, while referring
to the murder of two Dalit children in Haryana, is an offence under the SC and
ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and Indian Penal Code. It has issued notice
to the Uttar Pradesh police chief asking whether a case is made out against the
minister.
No service tax on `charitable' yoga income
There's good news for yoga
gurus who carry on their activities via charitable trusts. Income of such
trusts from yoga-related activities will now not be subject to service tax.
Thus, attendees of yoga camps or classes conducted by charitable trusts will
not have to pay service tax of 14%. T he amendments made consequent to the
budget of 2015 had granted income-tax exemption to income arising from
promotion of yoga activities. While the PM has put yoga on the world map, the
finance ministry has done its bit to boost yoga-related activities via income
tax and service tax exemptions.
Processed meats as big a cancer risk as smoking
The World Health Organisation is reportedly set
to declare that bacon, sausages and other proc con, sausages and other
processed meats cause cancer. Red meat is also expected to be listed in the
next lower risk category of being “probably carcinogenic to humans“.According
to a report in The Daily Mail, the announcements were expected to be made on
Monday with proc essed meat being put in the same category as cigarettes,
alcohol and asbestos.
After 8 yrs at CSK,
Dhoni to join new IPL team
If there is one cricketer who has been virtually
synonymous with an IPL franchise, it is
M S Dhoni.After Chennai Super Kings bought him
for the highest price of $1.5 million (then worth around Rs 7.5 crore) at the
very first IPL auction in January 2008, Dhoni has captained the team in all
eight editions of the IPL so far -a record unmatched by any other player.Understandably
, there was much speculation about what Dhoni would do after CSK was suspended
from the IPL for two years.Some said he might even sit out of the IPL rather
than play for any other franchise.However, it is now learned that Dhoni has
made up his mind to ch to another team. switch to another team.
`Sami is eligible to
be granted citizenship'
Singer Adnan Sami, who was allowed in August to
stay indefinitely in India following non-renewal of his Pakistani passport, is
likely to be granted Indian citizenship.Sami's request for Indian
citizenship on the grounds that he has renounced his Pakistani citizenship,
making India, where he has been staying for a decade-and-a-half, his “home“,
has been endorsed by the attorney general of India. The Union home ministry is
mulling granting him “citizenship by naturalisation“, in view of his “distin
guished service to the cause of art“.
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