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States have deciding rights in the council, he says The GST council had not met in the last six months in violation of its own rules that a meeting should be held once every quarter, Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal said in a letter to the Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. He said the Centre seemed to have usurped all the powers of the States. The meeting assumed importance with COVID-19 significantly impacting the economy and key decisions on waiver of GST on implements s...

Town of Ridgefield Public Hearing and BOS Meeting on Wednesday Written by Rudy Marconi Town of Ridgefield Public Hearing on Wednesday, May 5 at 7:30 pm via Zoom Notice is hereby given that a formal Public Hearing for residents held on Wednesday, May 5, 2021 at 7:30pm via Zoom to hear details pertaining to a donation of 1.17 acres of land located at the intersection of Turner Rd & Barnum Place. Specifically noted that although the donor’s appraisal was submitted, it holds no relevan...

Year-Long Celebrations Of Satyajit Rays Birth Centenary In India And Abroad by Arun Kumar Das - May 2, 2021 05:17 AM Satyajit Ray with Ravi Sankar music recording for Pather Panchali in 1955. Snapshot In recognition of the auteur’s legacy, “Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Cinema” has been instituted from this year to be given at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) every year starting from this year. The Award consists of a cash prize of 10 ...

Share New Delhi: In homage to the legendary filmmaker, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting will organise year-long centenary celebrations of late Shri Satyajit Ray across India and abroad. Shri Satyaji Ray was a renowned filmmaker, writer, illustrator, graphic designer, music composer. He started his career in advertising and found inspiration for his first film, Pather Panchali, while illustrating the children’s version of the novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay. The film catapulted ...

Information and Broadcasting Ministry to organise year-long events celebrating centenary of Satyajit Ray ANI | Updated: Apr 30, 2021 23:51 IST New Delhi [India], April 30 (ANI): Paying its homage to the legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting will organise a year-long centenary celebrations of the late legend in India and abroad. As part of the celebrations, the Media Units of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ...

  The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced the date for the 2023 general elections in the country. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu made the announcement on Wednesday during a one-day public hearing on the National Electoral Offences Commission (Establishment) Bill 2021, organized by the Senate Committee on INEC. According to the INEC boss, the 2023 general elections are exactly one year, nine months, two weeks and six days or 660 days from today. “By the principl...

He stated that the project was one of the efforts of government geared towards diversification of the state’s economy. “You will recall that during our electioneering campaign in our first tenure, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa came out with an acronym SMART Agenda in which includes Agricultural reforms and accelerated industrialisation. “Government after governments had continued to preach diversification without doing much in that direction. “The development of the Agro-Industrial Park is a s...

House Bill 2081 recently passed out of Oregon’s House with bi-partisan support. It intends to keep down costs in all silos of the health care system by setting insurer and provider incentives to maintain a consistent health care cost growth rate that lower overall costs for the patient.        This bill builds off of previous legislation in SB 889, which established the Health Care Cost Growth Benchmark designed to control health care expenditures’ rapid growth in the state. Since its ...

ICUMS has made clearanceprocesses more seamless –GRA The Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Suspense Regimes at the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority, Emmanuel Ohene, has intimated that the Integrated Customs Management System (ICUMS) being deployed as a trade facilitation tool at the ports of Ghana has added to the paperless system introduced at the ports in 2017, making clearance processes more seamless. “In the ICUMS, you can now make payments electronically, you can obtain a...

Share The Vice-chancellor of the Maranatha University, Mgbidi, Oru West Local Government Area of Imo state, Prof Ogwu E. Ogwu, stressed the institution’s commitment to adopt character formation as a way to stem the rising forms of immorality ravaging institutions in the country. He also advocated for an academic curriculum that would feed students intellectually and spiritually in all tertiary institutions in the country. Professor Ogwu stated this at an inauguration thanksgiving service of t...