New Delhi: Last year, the process of claiming income tax refund was tweaked by the Income Tax Department. In order to claim an income tax refund, apart from filing an income tax return (ITR), you have to ensure that you have pre-validated your bank account. This should be the account in which you want to receive
As per the Emirates News Agency WAM, India will extend a suspension on scheduled international passenger flights until the end of December. Continuing the ban earlier introduced during March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Already, it has been extended several times and had been due to be lifted on 30 November. So now, international flights are operating to
Vodafone Idea has been one of the go-to operators for postpaid services thanks to its affordable and unique plans. For individual customers, Vodafone Idea has a unique postpaid plan of Rs 1,099 which offers a slew of benefits. Alongside the postpaid plans aimed at individual users, Vodafone Idea aka Vi has five postpaid plans aimed at the individual
Google has officially unveiled the list of the best apps and games of 2020 on its Play Store platform, and the biggest prize of the best app of 2020 has been taken home by Indian startup Wysa’s calm sleep assistance and meditation app, named ‘Sleep stories for calm sleep — Meditate with Wysa’. Describing the
In a significant development, Haryana government has decided to give tablets free of cost to students of Class 8 to 12 of government schools. “The decision to provide tablets to boys and girls studying in classes VIII to XII of government schools belonging to all categories, including unreserved category, scheduled caste, backward class as well
Filing of income tax returns is an extremely important exercise that must be done carefully and without a fail. In case you have withdrawn money from the employee’s provident fund (EPF) during FY2019-20, you should remember this crucial point. It is important to report the amount irrespective of the fact that the amount is tax-exempt under certain
Bank Holidays in December 2020: All private and public sector banks in the country are closed on Sundays, as well as on the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. Besides this, banks are closed on various public and national and regional public holidays as well. Some of the national holidays on which banks remain closed
After the State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, the country’s second-largest government bank has changed rules for withdrawing cash from ATMs. After the new changes, Punjab National Bank (PNB) account holders from December 1, 2020, will need a One Time Password (OTP) to withdraw cash from automated teller machines (ATMs). Without OTP, cash withdrawals
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), which manages the government’s Aadhaar biometric ID programme, recently rolled out the Aadhaar identification card in a new form. The new Aadhaar identification is printed on a polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-based card, which comes in the size of an ATM or debit card. Aadhaar enrollees can obtain the new
The helmet manufacturing industry expects the demand for BIS certified two-wheeler helmets to sky-rocket after the Centre implemented new norms. The Centre, in a recent notification, mandated that only BIS certified two-wheeler helmets would be manufactured and sold in the country for two-wheelers. As per the notification: “QCO would mean that only BIS certified two-wheeler
