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With the due dates for filing of income tax return for the assessment year 2018-19 fast approaching, we bring you some of the important pointers to keep in mind while filing your taxes. As we all know, the income tax department released all seven ITR
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The Benami Act was revived and enforced by the current government from November 1, 2016.

New Delhi: Over 780 benami asset attachments worth crores of rupees run the risk of being invalidated in the near future as the government has failed to create a designated adjudicating authority for over a year-and-a-half since the stringent law was enforced
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New routes have also been announced by the flights.

Airlines are showering discounts on domestic and international flight tickets and giving amazing deals on fares. New routes have also been announced by the flights. Currently, Jet Airways is offering
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Higher interest rates discourage the buying of non-interest-paying bullion, which is priced in dollars

Gold prices have been moving within a range for the past few weeks. Traditionally considered a safe-haven investment, gold prices usually shine in in
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By and large, most large scale banks offer an interest rate similar to each other's rates

If you want to be able to access your bank savings anytime, and can't afford to dispense the savings for parking it in a fixed deposit (FD) account, the State
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Silver also fell by Rs 100 to Rs 40,500 per kg.

New Delhi: Gold prices fell by Rs 300 to Rs 31,600 per ten grams, extending their slide for the third consecutive day at the bullion market on Saturday, tracking a weak trend overseas amid fall in demand from local jewellers. Silver also fell further by Rs 100 to Rs 40,500 per kg due to reduced off
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Continuing its recent momentum against the US dollar, the rupee rose to 66 levels against the US dollar today. The rupee jumped to a one-month high of 66.85 against the US dollar, as compared to Friday's close of 67.06. A strong opening in the domestic equity markets also lifted the sentiment. Besides global oil
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IRCTC's 10-day travel package include Puri, Kolkata, Gangasagar, Gaya and Varanasi.

IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation) Tourism is offering nine nights and ten days travel package to Puri, Kolkata, Gangasagar, Gaya, Varanasi,
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However, GoAir's offer is discounted only on base fare.

GoAir today announced a discount offer on domestic flight tickets. The airline informed about the offer on microblogging website -- Twitter. Customers can book tickets on GoAir mobile app for booking of tickets on weekends and get Rs. 250 off on one-way and Rs. 500 off on return journey, said
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Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) benchmark index Sensex started Monday's session with a surge of over 300 points to trade above the key 35,000 level, tracking strong global markets. Gains were led by buying witnessed across banking and auto shares. The NSE
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Palo Alto Networks serves 50,000 companies globally and has 5,000 employees.

San Francisco: Former Chief Business Officer at Google, Nikesh Arora has been named the CEO and Chairman of the US-based security firm Palo Alto Networks.

After leaving Google in mid-2014, the high-profile executive became president of SoftBank and was heir apparent to its

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India meets more than 80% of its oil requirement through imports.

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices were revised marginally lower for the fourth consecutive day, on Saturday. The prices fell around nine paise in the four metro cities. In Delhi-NCR (national capital region), petrol was sold at Rs 78.20 per litre, down from Rs 78.29 on Friday,
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IRCTC has rolled out the facility of delivering food to passengers on their train seats. Not only food, the passengers can even place orders for alphonso mangoes. For the food delivery, Indian Railways (IRCTC) has roped in Trapigo which provides last
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RBI has refrained from revising the repo rate since August 2017 citing inflationary concerns.

Mumbai: Rising inflation and high crude oil prices will weigh on the minds of the six Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) members at their three-day meeting beginning here tomorrow to decide the key policy rate. The seven-quarter high growth rate of 7.7 per
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This tour package will start from October 12, 2018.

IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Operation) Tourism offers 6-day tour package to Gangtok and Namchi at a starting all-inclusive price of Rs 14,560 under a special 'Green Sikkim-Chardham'
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his visit to Singapore, visited Indian Heritage Centre. There he bought a madhubani painting. And when the time came to make the payment, he chose SBI RuPay card over any other mode of payment. This was no less than
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Prices of petrol and diesel vary from state-to-state depending on local sales tax or VAT.

Petrol prices were revised marginally lower for the fifth consecutive day, on Sunday. The prices fell around nine paise in the four metro cities. In Delhi, petrol
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Ujjivan small finance bank offers FD interest rate of 8 per cent on its one-year fixed deposits

Even after increasing the fixed deposit (FD) interest rates on May 28, the State Bank of India still offers the rate of just 6.65 per cent on its one-year
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The impact of Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) monetary policy announcement on Wednesday is likely to determine the trajectory of benchmark market indices: Sensex and Nifty. The central bank will announce its second monetary policy review for 2018-19 wherein it is expected to change the policy stance to hawkish, or
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RBI's April 6 circular against virtual currencies was challenged in the Supreme Court

When the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) three-month deadline given to banks for severing their ties with digital currencies looms closer, some cryptocurrency exchanges
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Jet Airways is also offering 10% discount in premiere and economy sections on domestic flight tickets.

Jet Airways last month announced the launch of operations under the ‘Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik’ (UDAN) scheme. Country's second-largest private carrier had bagged four routes in the second round of bidding in January, in which a total of 325 routes w
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Under a turnaround plan, Air India will receive a equity infusion of Rs 30,231 crore up to 2021

Mumbai: Air India has asked the government to "restore" equity infusion in the carrier, after it failed to find any takers for its disinvestment. The loss-making carrier has already received more than Rs 26,000 crore under the bailout package announced
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One can operate the PPF account on SBI's net banking account also

State Bank of India (SBI) public provident fund scheme is one of the most popular small savings scheme. The SBI PPF scheme enables the subscribers to save income tax as it allows the deduction from taxable income under the section 80C of the

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The maximum discount per SpiceMax seat is Rs 500 under this offer.

SpiceJet is offering up to 50 per cent discount on SpiceMax with HDFC Bank credit cards on every Friday, Saturday and Sunday under its 'Happy Weekends' scheme, as mentioned on the official website of the airline- spicejet.com. Under SpiceMax,

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Enhanced gratuity limit for private sector employees will kick in from March 29, 2018.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment has clarified that the enhanced limit of gratuity for the private sector workers will be effective from March 29, 2018 only, in
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The IT department in the first week of April had sent a notice to NuPower Renewables.

New Delhi: Whistle-blower Arvind Gupta, who exposed the alleged Videocon loan fraud, has levelled fresh allegations of quid pro quo on ICICI Bank MD and CEO Chanda Kochhar in a second letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Gupta has claimed that ICICI
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Last year, the government had announced a recapitalistion plan of Rs 2.11 lakh crore for PSBs.

As the country's 21 public sector banks (PSBs) announced their results for the fourth quarter of financial year 2017-18, only two of the state-run banks --
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Reliance Jio offers four long term prepaid plans for Rs 999, Rs 1,999, Rs 4,999 and Rs 9,999.

Reliance Jio offers a host of prepaid recharge plans. The Mukesh Ambani-owned company offers plans varying from Rs 19 to Rs 9,999 which are valid for a period of one day to a year. These plans offer unlimited calling and data benefits, with some particular
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The announcement of merger between Vodafone and Idea Cellular was made on March 20, 2017

India's telecom giants Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, soon to become a single merged entity, will be known as Vodafone Idea Ltd, subject to the approval of special resolution in an extraordinary general meeting that

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Recently, Airtel also launched prepaid plans priced at Rs 499, Rs 558 and Rs 149.

Bharti Airtel's Rs 299 prepaid recharge plan offers truly unlimited local, STD and roaming calls for a validity of 45 days. 100 free SMSes per day are also bundled with
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