Janvi Sonaiya, Author at Vibes Of India

Gujarat Income-Tax Officers Protest ‘Anti-Employee Policies’ Of Their Own Boss Ravindra Kumar; The Latter’s Team Member Says ‘Genuine Demands’ Will Be Addressed

September 24, 2022 11:06

A full-scale revolt has rocked the Gujarat Income-Tax Department since September 19, when dozens of officials launched a protest against “anti-employee policies” of Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax (PrCCIT) Ravindra Kumar. Lack of promotions for the past several years is the main bone of contention. Income-Tax officers from Surat, Anand, Rajkot, Vadodara and other […]

Your Navratri Is Costlier Than You Think. Here’s Why

September 23, 2022 17:57

Come Navratri, and Gujaratis are geared up for their nine days of revelry. With dance, music and delicious food this time, there are also going to be a series of taxes. Goods and Services Tax (GST) at Centre and State level will be implied on everything; be it your garba passes, agarbati or prasad. Afterall, […]

Abhay K’s Stray Poems Flaunt Cosmic Ride Across The Globe

September 21, 2022 19:03

Every human on this planet will narrate a unique definition of poetry, evoking a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or stimulating a response through figurative language chosen or arranged for its meaning, sound, rhythm, mood, tone, syntax and diction. For poet-diplomat Abhay K, poetry is a spiritual exercise. His latest collection of poems titled ‘Stray […]

Is Arvind Kejriwal’s Broom The Latest Threat To BJP Gujarat? The Whitewashed Walls Say So.

September 4, 2022 12:02

The race is warming up and Gujarat seems to be gripped with a fatal poll symptom. While defacing walls with political graffiti was never a concern for any political party, the BJP, however, seems to have taken on AAP’s “broom” with a mission. If you saw an AAP symbol on the neighbourhood walls last week, […]

What Makes Education At St. Xavier’s College Special?

August 26, 2022 19:38

St Xavier’s College Ahmedabad has become the first college in Gujarat to have been accredited five stars by NAAC. Recently, the college notched another laurel by becoming the only institute in the state to secure a place in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings 2022. Established in 1955, this college offers undergraduate programmes in […]

Gujarati Radha Auntie To The Rescue For South Asian Singles

August 13, 2022 09:52

For second-generation Indian-American Radha Patel, matchmaking was part by choice and partly in her genes. Her parents hail from Nadiad in Gujarat. A ben at heart, she realised her skills with social networking and presto! The Auntie Network came into being. This tech-driven, dating service caters to South Asian singles and families alike. This online matchmaking […]

Mexican President Includes PM Narendra Modi On Panel For Global Peace

August 11, 2022 19:06

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is planning to submit a written proposal to the UN to create a commission for peace and invite PM Narendra Modi to be a part of it. The commission will be made up to promote a five-year world truce for peace. The Mexican President would like Pope Francis, UN Secretary […]

Gujarat Income Tax Raids 25 Locations Of Ceramic Brand Qutone

August 9, 2022 20:31

The investigation wing of the Income Tax department of Gujarat has raided over 25 locations of popular ceramic brand Qutone. The search and seizure operation– led by the Rajkot Income Tax department–began on Tuesday morning. Over 200 I-T officials were deployed at various locations of the company’s head offices and residencies in Ahmedabad, Morbi and […]

Gujarat Income Tax Detects Unaccounted Transactions Of Over Rs 800 Crores From Chiripal Group

July 29, 2022 20:41

The Income Tax Department in Gujarat conducted a search and seizure operation at Chiripal Group of Ahmedabad. The operation was initiated by the investigation wing of Surat and found unaccounted transactions of over Rs 800 crores. The raid began on July 19 in 49 locations of the conglomerate. Over 25 crores cash and 15 crores […]

Gujarat: Chiripal Group And Its Tainted History Of Income Tax Raids, Police Investigation And Labourers Death

July 25, 2022 19:39

The Income Tax Department in Gujarat conducted a search and seizure operation at Chiripal Group in Ahmedabad. The operation was initiated by the investigation wing in Surat on July 19. Till July 25, around Rs 50 crores of unaccounted cash and jewellery was seized from 49 locations of the conglomerate. Digital documents of the company are […]

Gujarat CGST Is Still Not Through With Scrutiny Of FY’18 GST Filings. Here’s Why.

July 13, 2022 09:20

The Central Goods And Services Tax (CGST), which came into force in 2017, empowers its officers to scrutinize a return furnished by registered people to verify its correctness. But it seems Gujarat’s CGST department is still struggling with procedural wrangles or is simply lethargic. Highly placed sources disclosed to Vibes of India that lethargy in scrutinizing CGST filings […]

Faceless Assessment In Liquor Cases Baffles Income Tax Officers In Prohibition Zone Gujarat

Income-Tax Officials From ‘Dry’ Gujarat Tasked With ‘Faceless’ Assessees in ‘Wet’ States

July 12, 2022 20:28

In a bid to expedite income-tax assessments and case proceedings that must wait for the client’s appearance before the agency, the government, 2020, initiated the Faceless Assessment Scheme. Under the new system, cases assigned to the I-T- Department would necessarily have to be from “outside the regional jurisdiction” of the state. This was done to […]

The Ability To Question Is Missing In Gujarat: Nigerian Artist Uche Iroha

August 3, 2022 15:38

Uche James Iroha is a Nigerian currently visiting Gujarat. The visual artist is director, “Photo Garage” in Lagos, an organization that offers a platform for local and global intellectual photographic exchange. He also helms “Depth of Field,” a photography collective based in Lagos where he resides. But why is he in Amdavad? “A quest has […]

Inflation Converts Manufacturing Hub Gujarat Into Trading Zone?

July 8, 2022 09:26

With its countless petro-chemical units, drug labs, cement plants, iron ore processing units, cotton mills and diamond cutting and polishing enterprises, Gujarat has a traditional manufacturing history. However, recent data seems to suggest a shift to trading companies as the nerve centre of commercial activity. According to official data released by Ministry of Corporate Affairs, […]

Gujarat Ki Beti Vidhya Has To Fight For Education Even in Year 2022

August 3, 2022 12:56

Twelve kilometres from Gujarat’s political capital, Gandhinagar, and 14 kilometres from the commercial capital, Ahmedabad — lies village Amiyapur. However, education beyond class VIII is a distant dream here. Most who leg it out to the nearest school (about 5 to 7 kilometres away) are either absent most of the time or fail several times. […]

Why Does Gujarat Income Tax Dept Give Charity Organisations A Miss?

July 4, 2022 12:20

The Income Tax Department’s brief is to collect tax revenues and detect unaccounted taxable income, but there is one wing of the department in Gujarat which seems to be busy disbursing refunds. The Exemption department of I-T, Gujarat, recorded a disbursal of refunds of Rs 800 crore in 2021 — that is that much fewer revenues. Earlier the Exemption department had the powers […]

Yet Another Mega Project In Gujarat Fails, Rs 1.5 Lakh Crore At Stake

July 2, 2022 23:15

The Central Government in December 2020 laid with much fanfare the foundation stone of the country’s largest solar and wind park at an investment of a whopping Rs 1,50,000 crore in Kutch’s high-security Khavda region close to the Pakistan borders. Not a brick has been laid as yet for the project. The reason, ironically, is […]

AAP Plans To Shed Pro-Urban Image, Expand Gujarat Network To Villages

July 2, 2022 09:11

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is emerging as a key player in the 2022 Gujarat elections arguably making it a three-corner contest, has realised its copy-paste campaign from Delhi polls won’t work here and has devised a customised agenda for Gujarat. If in Delhi it emerged more as an urban-centric party speaking of free […]

The Goods and Services Act (GST) regime was introduced on the midnight of June 30, 2017, as suddenly as demonetisation was announced in November the previous year, but exactly five years down the line its complicated structure continues to flummox businessmen across the spectrum.

Five Years On, GST Dept Still Limping With Technical Glitches

June 30, 2022 09:27

The Goods and Services Act (GST) regime was introduced on the midnight of June 30, 2017, as suddenly as demonetisation was announced in November the previous year, but exactly five years down the line its complicated structure continues to flummox businessmen across the spectrum. It isn’t without reason that Supreme Court judge JB Pardiwala […]

Guess Who Got The Maximum Foreign Funding in Gujarat?

June 27, 2022 09:03

The Swaminarayan sect of the Bochanvasi Akshar Purshottam Swaminarayan (BAPS) received the highest foreign funding of Rs 26 crore in a single quarter from January to March 2022, among as many as 500 organisations having got more than Rs 100 crore from abroad. This has been disclosed in the quarterly returns they filed for the […]

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