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Tax Department Raids Gujarat Realty Firm, Detects ₹ 500 Crore Unaccounted Transactions

April 6, 2022April 6, 2022 Loknath Das500, Crore, Department, detects, Firm, Gujarat, Raids, Realty, Tax, Unaccounted, ₹

The Income Tax Department has detected unaccounted transactions of over ₹ 500 crore after it raided an Ahmedabad-based real estate developer and linked brokers as part of a tax evasion probe, the Central Board of Direct Taxes or CBDT claimed today. “Documents reveal unaccounted income of more than ₹ 200 crore in the hands of the real estate group and also unaccounted income of more than ₹ 200 crore in the hands of the parties recorded in the documents found from the possession of the brokers.” “Overall, the search & seizure operation has resulted in the…

Guess who’s working on a health data-slurping digital tool. Bzzt! Nope, it’s the UK Department for Work and Pensions

February 19, 2019 Loknath Dasa, and, Bzzt!, data-slurping, Department, Digital, for, Guess, Health, Its, Nope, On, Pensions, The, tool, UK:, Who's, work, Working

The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions is drawing up plans for an internal service that allows it to automate slurps of medical data on claimants to dole out health-related benefits. In an ad posted on the UK’s Digital Marketplace, DWP said the work was currently in alpha and it now wanted a supplier to deliver a technical proof of concept to expose NHS data to the department’s systems. The aim, it said, is to cut down the time and cost involved in gathering information the department needs to make a…

Shell plans 400 job cuts at Dutch projects and technology department

July 31, 2017 Loknath Das400, and, at, Cuts, Department, Dutch, Job, plans, projects, Shell, Technology'

Royal Dutch Shell Plc plans to cut more than 400 jobs in the Netherlands, mainly at its major projects and energy technology operations, as the oil giant shifts its business model in response to lower oil prices, according to an internal document seen by Reuters. The world’s second-largest oil company by market capitalization said in a statement responding to questions from Reuters that “approximately 400 (staff) are potentially at risk of redundancy during the last quarter of 2017/first half of 2018”. That represents around a quarter of the roles at…

The NSW Department of Education commissioned a $300,000 scripture review, but rejects its major findings | poll

April 11, 2017 Loknath Das000, 300, a, but, commissioned, Department, Education, findings, Its, major, NSW, of, Poll, rejects, Review, scripture, The, |

THE NSW Department of Education has rejected major recommendations of a $300,000 taxpayer-funded review of scripture in NSW schools, including the need for more information on scripture providers to “identify radical groups or cults”. The 238-page review, completed in 2015 but not released until Tuesday, found scripture providers did not “consistently produce good quality curricula from an educational perspective”, the system of authorising scripture providers lacked transparency, and some scripture teachers were using authorised, but age-inappropriate materials, while others used non-authorised materials. The review found the Department of Education and scripture providers…