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2 Farmers on their tractors during the ongoing protest against the farm laws, at the Ghazipur border in New Delhi on Monday. PTI
Sukhmeet Bhasin
Bathinda, January 25
To support the tractor rally announced by the protesting farmers in Delhi on Republic Day, Non Resident Indians (NRI) of Punjabi origin living in Canada have said that they would take out a car rally in Brampton and Calgary on January 26.
In Brampton, the car rally would start at 2.30 pm on January 26 from the Soccer Centre, 1495 Sandalwood Parkway E, to Indian Passport Office, 20 Gillingham, Brampton.
The rally will be supported by Sarokaran-di-Awaz, Alliance of Progressive Canadians, Disha – a women’s organisation, GTA West Club, Indo-Canadian Workers Association, Parvasi Punjabi Pensioners Association, Sirjanharian – a women’s group, Canadian Punjabi Sahit Sabha, ML Party of Canada, and Prof Mohan Singh Foundation.
Budget: Clamour for residency rule tweak grows as tax fear hits NRIs stuck due to lockdown
Chartered accountants and tax lawyers agree that this is a challenging situation for the NRIs who got stuck in India due to the lockdown in the wake of the pandemic
Ashutosh Kumar | January 23, 2021 | Updated 00:09 IST
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Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) who came to visit India before the COVID-19 outbreak and got stuck in the country due to the nationwide lockdown and other pandemic restrictions for the whole of the current financial year are grappling with a strange situation.
They may now have to pay tax in India in the financial year 2020-21 as their period of stay has overshot the limit of 120 days prescribed under section six of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
The forgotten voters
The forgotten voters
“Voting Facilities for the Migrant Workers” when five states including Assam are going to Assembly polls is a timely intervention
| 22 Jan 2021 10:02 AM GMT
The Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) pushing the campaign for Voting Facilities for the Migrant Workers when five states including Assam are going to Assembly polls is a timely intervention. Lack of an accepted definition of migrant workers in India continues to be the stumbling block for evolving a mechanism to enable them to exercise their franchise from their place of work. The migrant workers cannot afford to travel back to their home states to exercise their franchise and most of them cannot take part in the voting on the polling day. The postal ballot system is available only for the government employees and employees of armed forces. The ADR studies reveal that several crores of migrant residents of India remain deprived of voting right. The politi
Nitish invited BJANA members on Saturday evening to visit Bihar and see for themselves what he said was the development undertaken in the state in the last 15 years. He also promised all possible help on land acquisition and other necessary infrastructure development required for setting up new industrial units in Bihar. The