Relief to industry, state to get centre's help

Solan: Giving relief to industrial units availing benefits of the residual period of the Central incentives, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry has issued a draft notification of a new scheme promising budgetary support under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to such manufacturing units.

Bankls should be held responsible if harassed farmer dies: BKU

Kaithal: The Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) has warned that if any farmer commits suicide under stress after getting summons or a loan recovery notice from a bank or court, bank officials will be held responsible for his death.

HP DGP Sanjay Kumar appointed new NDRF chief

Himachal Pradesh director general of police (DGP) Sanjay Kumar has been appointed as the new chief of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF)

In Junaid's murder case, Railway Claims Tribunal takes suo motu notice

Chandigarh: The Railway Claims Tribunal here today took suo motu cognisance of the murder of Junaid (16), a resident of Khandawali village in Ballabhgarh, and asked the Northern Railway General Manager to submit a detailed report in the matter.

ISB launches research initiative on Aadhaar card

The Indian School of Business (ISB) today said it has launched the digital identity research initiative (DIRI) to promote an academic study of the Aadhaar card and its implications

Shops in Kashmir shut after strike over GST launch

Most shops and business establishments were shut across Kashmir today due to a strike over alleged high-handedness of the government and the proposed rollout of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in the state

Liquid nitrogen cocktail burns hole in businessman's stomach

Gurugram: A Delhi businessman ended up in a hospital with his stomach "open like a book" after consuming a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen at a pub here. The unwitting patron, who was partying with his friends there, apparently did not wait for the white smoke created by the chemical to dissipate before consuming it, according to doctors.

Shoolini University to offer job oriented programme in yoga

A university in Himachal Pradesh has decided to start a job-oriented programme in yoga, its Vice Chancellor P K Khosla said here today. Khosla told reporters here that yoga has been introduced at Shoolini University in Solan in view of the importance being given to it across the world

200 officers to monitor district-level implementation of GST

Over 200 senior Central government officers have been tasked with monitoring district-level implementation of Goods and Service Tax with a focus on resolving difficulties faced by consumers. The government has clubbed each district of the country in 166 clusters, aligning them with the administrative divisions of the central revenue department, a government notification issued today said

Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University gets new VC

Haryana Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki today appointed Rajendera Kumar Anayath as the vice-chancellor of Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science and Technology at Murthal in Sonipat district