Daily Archives: June 4, 2011

No service tax on Grants / Donations received by charitable organisations for training, etc.

Revenue Dept. has clarified that no service tax is applicable on grants / donations rec’d by charitable organizations for the purposes of training, as long as it can be established that there is no direct relationship between the recipient of … Continue reading

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Third Gender – A First of its kind

UID Project has given the status of ‘Third Gender’ to the transgender community. Puducherry has become the first state to recognize this community which otherwise gets squeezed into either ‘male’ or ‘female’ category depending upon the whims of the enumerator. … Continue reading

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Why people are secluding themselves from the Society?

Recent incident in Noida, where two middle-aged sisters locked themselves in and cut off from the outside world for six months has raised a number of questions. This is not the first time, last year another middle aged woman kept … Continue reading

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