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Monday, October 27, 2025
TopicCentral Board of Direct Taxes

Topic: Central Board of Direct Taxes

Income tax portal’s technical glitches being ‘progressively addressed’, CBDT says

The Central Board of Direct Taxes also said that a positive trend has been observed in the various filings on the portal and Rs 1.19 crore Income Tax Returns have been filed so far.

Govt extends deadline for filing income tax returns to 30 September

The Central Board of Direct Taxes, citing pandemic as the reason for the extension, also deferred the ITR filing deadline for companies till 30 November.

Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairman Pramod Chandra Mody gets further extension for 3 months

Mody is a 1982-batch Indian Revenue Service officer who was appointed as the CBDT chief in February 2019. Mody's tenure was last extended in August last year for 6 months.

Disability pension of military personnel who retire after full service will now be taxed

Finance ministry rules that those military personnel who continue in service until retirement will have to pay income tax on their disability pension.

Devote more time to work than boasting, Bombay High Court tells income tax department

Bombay HC was upset about lack of preparation by income tax department for a case and said arguing legal matters 'should not be taken casually'.

Election Commission slaps notice on AAP for alleged discrepancies in electoral funding

The Election Commission alleged in its showcause notice that transactions through hawala operators were 'wrongly disclosed as voluntary donations' in AAP's statement.

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RJD confidence in EBCs dips. Sticks to Yadav core

RJD’s candidates from EBCs have declined from 13.13 per cent to 11.19 per cent. This could be because the party saw the lowest strike rate among EBC candidates in the 2020 Bihar Assembly polls.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.