New Delhi, June 17 ANI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the promulgation of the Daman and Diu Motor Vehicles Tax Amendment Regulation, 2010. The Regulation provides for levying one-time motor vehicle tax on personalised non-transport vehicles. It also provides for levying a cess, namely, green tax on old vehicles of 15 years and above, in addition to tax levied under the Act at the time of renewal of registration. The proposed Act also has provision for increasing the upper limits of the rate of taxation on transport vehicles keeping in line with the neighbouring states and as a resource mobilisation initiative. ANI
The All India Council for Technical Education AICTE has rejected two-thirds of applications to set up new colleges in the western region in the first three months of this calendar year. The region comprises Maharashtra and Goa and the Union Territory of Daman and Diu.
A trial court has transferred the alleged Rs 340-crore excise duty case, involving a senior ministry of home affairs and others, to a special CBI court at Daman.
Businessman Ashok Khemani and alleged middleman Rakesh Rastogi, in the thick of a multi-crore graft case also involving a senior MHA officer, have proposed to fly an entire CBI team from Delhi to Daman and back.
CBI has registered a case against four government employees, including a senior IAS officer, and Daman-based six distilleries for allegedly causing a loss of Rs 340 crore to the exchequer.
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