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"It has been decided that a committee of officers will study the collection of tax on services by the states. It is apprehended that states may not be collecting the due GST on services as unlike the Centre they do not have expertise in taxing services," Modi said. |
He further said that the GoM has decided not to rope in any third party experts to study the reasons for revenue shortfall. |
The GoM, which was set up on January 1, would meet again in February. |
As per the terms of reference set by the GST Council, the GoM was given the option to rope in experts from National Institute of Public Finance (NIPFP) and National Council for Applied Economic Research (NCAER) to assist them in analysis of states' revenues. |
Out of 31 states, only Andhra Pradesh and five north eastern states -- Mizoram, Andhra Pradesh, Manipur, Sikkim and Nagaland -- have recorded revenue increase post the GST roll out. |
Several states including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, Odisha, Goa, Bihar, Gujarat and Delhi are facing revenue shortfall following the implementation of goods and services tax (GST). These states are facing revenue shortfall in the range of 14-37 per cent in the April-November ... |
Among the union territories, Puducherry is facing maximum shortfall of 43 per cent. |
The Committee of officers, Modi said, would try to find out why big states are facing revenue shortfall while their smaller counterparts are doing well in terms of GST collections. |
The central government has released ₹48,202 crore as GST compensation to states during April-November 2018, higher than the ₹48,178 crore paid in the previous financial year. |
GST was rolled out on July 1, 2017. As per the GST law, the centre compensates states to ensure that their revenue is protected at the level of 14 per cent over the base year tax collection in 2015-16. |
The GoM was mandated to undertake data analysis using econometric and statistical tools and suggest "suitable measures/policy intervention" for course correction for revenue augmentation, particularly for the states suffering high revenue shortfall. |
Among other things, it would also take into account trends of revenue collection before and after GST implementation. |
The other members of the GoM include Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac, Karnataka Rural Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda, Odisha Finance Minister Shashi Bhushan Behera, Haryana Taxation Minister Capt Abhimanyu and Goa Panchayat Minister Mauvin Godinho. |
A new report says the illegal sale of African ivory in Laos is surging even as neighboring China phases out its own legal ivory market. |
Save the Elephants, a Kenya-based conservation group, said Thursday that the number of Chinese-owned retail outlets selling elephant ivory in the Southeast Asian country increased significantly between 2013 and 2016, and that the majority of buyers are visitors from China. |
The group's researchers say some ivory goods were crafted in Vietnam while ivory has also illegally reached Laos from Thailand, where traders face a crackdown by authorities. |
They say ivory goods are sold openly in Laos, despite the country's pledge to curb wildlife trafficking. China, the world's largest ivory consumer, says it plans to shut down its ivory trade by the end of this year. |
The University of Birmingham has been criticised over plans to more strictly enforce immigration controls for international staff, with unions and campaigners accusing it of pursuing draconian and discriminatory monitoring of non-EU academics. |
The briefing also said that if managers found that “any of the details are incorrect they will need to ensure they are raised with the individual [non-EU academic] and resolved”. |
James Brackley, the president of the Birmingham branch of the University and College Union (UCU), said the system would affect hundreds of overseas staff. |
“Under the current system, administrators compile attendance reports on non-EU staff every week in line with Home Office requirements,” he said. “It appears that the proposed system is a significant escalation of that monitoring and will put them under much greater scrutiny, and give their line managers a lot more powe... |
The new monitoring regime covers both long-term and temporary non-EU staff sponsored by the university in order to work in the UK, who are on tier 2 and tier 5 visas respectively. The HR briefing states that it is being introduced in order to comply with the university’s sponsor duties. |
A spokesperson for the university said: “The University of Birmingham is not introducing a new attendance monitoring system for non-EU staff and is not expecting non-EU staff to check in on a daily basis. As with all organisations that employ staff on tier 2 and tier 5 visas, the university is required by the Home Offi... |
Last year, the University of Sussex mooted introducing a similar policy requiring non-EU staff to submit daily reports to their line manager and to HR regarding their whereabouts at all times, both on and off campus, but the plans were abandoned after opposition by lecturing unions and campaigners. |
Three years ago, the University of Edinburgh said it would require all employees, not just overseas staff, to tell management if they left their “normal place of work” for half a day or longer, partly to avoid potential discrimination. |
Under the hostile environment policy, pursued by the government since 2010, universities are required to inform the Home Office of any breaches in the visa or immigration status of an international student or member of staff. |
The band interacted with the audience throughout the show. |
The Eli Young Band played songs from their new album "Fingerprints" along with their older radio hits. |
The Eli Young Band performed from Montbleu Resort Casino and Spa last Thursday, their first visit to Lake Tahoe. |
The band has spent half their lives together; their lighthearted dynamic shines through their performances. |
The Eli Young Band has a trio of platinum and multi-platinum No. 1 hits: “Drunk Last Night”, “Even If It Breaks Your Heart”, and “Crazy Girl”. Their new album FINGERPRINTS will be released on June 16. |
Last Thursday, May 25, the Eli Young Band brought their signature Texas sound to South Lake Tahoe, performing live from Montbleu Resort Casino and Spa. |
The crowd spanned generations and was made up of families, couples holding hands and swaying cozily at the seated event. |
Lead singer, Mike Eli, thanked the crowd for traveling to spend a beautiful night in Tahoe with them and said the band enjoyed their first trip up. |
They made the most of their visit by arriving early to hike, bike, and have bassist Jon Jones jump in the lake. |
“Just kidding, he’s still alive,” Eli joked. |
Before getting into their older radio hits, the Eli Young Band played for the crowd a few songs off their newest album, “Fingerprints”. |
Eli introduced a song he dedicated as a love letter to his wife. As the band performed “Skin & Bones”, one couple in the audience said they found even more meaning in its lyrics. |
“This is our first country show,” said Carson City local, Lindsay Van Alyne, who went to the show with her husband Drew and friends to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. |
“I loved his song to his wife, especially with today being our fifth anniversary, I just felt connected to the whole show right away,” Van Alyne said. |
“Saltwater Gospel” was the final new hit the band played before diving into David Lee Murphy’s “Dust on the Bottle.” Once those familiar chords were strummed the energy in the showroom was ignited and the crowd got on its feet. |
The band interacted and joked with the crowd, saying how beautiful Tahoe was and declaring it was everyone’s birthday. |
Song after song, the instrumentals were tight and the vocals were on-point, just as one would expect to hear on the radio. |
By the time they covered The Beatles “Come Together,” the entire room was united in song, dancing together and contributing to the positive vibe. |
The band played their hits “Drunk Last Night” and “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” to a room of dancing fans, who knew the songs word-for-word. |
They performed “Crazy Girl” for their encore after paying tribute to Jimmy Eat World, throwing it back for the crowd as they played “The Middle” to an unsuspecting crowd who, again, knew all the words. |
After the show, the audience shuffled back onto the casino floor and could be heard discussing what a great show it was. |
Elisabeth Ferguson drove to South Lake from Sacramento with her boyfriend Chris Luna for the show. |
Luna added that he is a singer, himself, and gave props to the band for putting on such a great performance at high elevation. |
The overall consensus was the same, everyone enjoyed the laid-back atmosphere, easy-listening music, and the nods to popular crowd-pleaser songs that everyone could get involved in. |
Having performed together for the past 17 years, the Eli Young Band compares themselves to brothers more than just band mates. |
Last week, in preparation for this performance, Eli explained that his biggest goal anytime he’s on stage is to show the crowd a good time. |
“I think that if I’m passionate about being on stage, that’ll translate,” he said last week. |
The band was present last Thursday and came through on their goal of showing the crowd a good time. They engaged the crowd through their performance and never fell short on an opportunity to let their personalities shine through. |
Even with the minor stumble, the band put on a flawless performance; it’s easy to see how grateful they truly are to be able to make music for a living. |
The band said it was a really fun show for them in one of the coolest places in the United States, and that they can’t wait to come back to Lake Tahoe. |
Authorities have identified the SUV driver who sped through a red light on a Minneapolis street near Interstate 35W and was killed after striking another vehicle. |
Joshua L. Patterson, 27, of Mound, was not wearing his seat belt, a decision that appears to have contributed to his failure to survive Thursday afternoon's crash, police said. |
Patterson was killed in the collision near the E. 35th Street entrance to Interstate 35W in south Minneapolis. Patterson suffered severe head injuries from the crash, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office said Saturday. |
Court records in Minnesota show that Patterson has been cited at least twice previously for seat belt violations: once in Wright County in 2013 and in 2010 in Minnetonka. |
Patterson was traveling north on 2nd Avenue S. when he raced through the stoplight. He hit a vehicle traveling west on E. 35th Street, sending it into the sound-barrier wall. |
Patterson's SUV flipped on its side, pitching him partway out of his seat. He was dead at the scene. |
"Likely had he been secured [in his seat belt], he probably would have lived," police spokesman John Elder said. |
The other driver was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. Authorities said he was wearing his seat belt. |
Security researchers estimate that 50% of worldwide spam has been killed off by the Grum strike. |
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Good news for your email inbox: You'll be seeing less spam in it now, thanks to a global takedown effort that knocked one of the world's biggest spammers offline this week. |
"About 50% of the worldwide spam is gone," says FireEye senior scientist Atif Mushtaq, who participated in the demolition. |
The dramatic decrease is the result of a coordinated attack by security firms and Internet service providers around the globe that took down a network of infected computers known as "the Grum botnet." Grum, one of the world's most prolific spammers, generated around 18 billion emails a day, by FireEye's estimates. |
A botnet is a collective of computers infected with malware -- typically without the computer owner's knowledge -- and taken over by an outside attacker. Criminals who gain control of botnets use them for malicious activities like pumping out massive volumes of spam or launching denial-of-service attacks on targeted we... |
Grum was an especially vast and nasty spammer. First detected in early 2008, its malware infected several hundred thousand computers around the world and churned out huge amounts of pharmaceutical spam advertising cheap drugs. |
At its peak, Grum was the world's most prolific spam machine, though researchers recently dropped it to the number three spot on their ever-changing list of the world's largest botnets. |
The tale of its demise reads like a high-tech thriller. |
The brain of a botnet is what's known as a "command and control" server. Grum had several of those servers scattered around the globe in countries including Russia, Panama, and the Netherlands. But it also had a fatal weakness: The network had no recovery mechanism if all of its command servers were simultaneously knoc... |
A Dutch Internet service provider yanked the plug Tuesday on two of Grum's primary command servers. A Panamanian server went down next, leaving just one main server -- in Russia -- coordinating the entire Grum swarm. |
But when the botnet's operators realized their network was under attack, they launched their evasive actions, shifting their traffic to a fresh set of backup servers in Ukraine. |
"Right in front of my eyes, the bot herders started pointing their botnet to new destinations," Mushtaq wrote in a blog post about the takedown. "For a moment, I was stunned." |
Mushtaq alerted collaborators around the globe, including a cybersecurity team in Russia that quickly went after the new servers' Internet providers. Within a few hours, they persuaded key providers to cut the connection. By 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, the entire system was dead. |
"We are confident that it can't recover," Mushtaq told CNNMoney on Thursday morning. "I've been monitoring Grum for four years. Right from the start we knew that it doesn't have any fallback mechanism." |
Grum was responsible for 35% of the Internet's spam volume last week, according to monitoring statistics from security firm Trustwave. |
Tracking botnet spam is tricky, and other firms have different estimates. Spam tracker Spamhaus estimates that 15% to 17% of the world's spam was coming from Grum as of early this week. |
Its demise is having ripple effects. The spam volume from another major botnet, Lethic, plunged overnight, Mushtaq said. He thinks the operators of that botnet have "gone underground." |
Cumulatively, killing Grum and wounding Lethic has instantly cut the worldwide spam volume in half, FireEye estimates. |
Grum recently averaged 120,000 infected computers a day generating spam, but immediately after the takedown, that number dropped to 21,505, Spamhaus reported. |
On Thursday, Spamhaus's latest data showed zero infected machines sending messages. |
Spam had already declined dramatically in recent years thanks to coordinated global efforts. Mushtaq thinks the goal of a junk-free inbox is in reach. |
"One last final blow and I think we can make a rapid and permanent decline in worldwide spam," he said. |
Horror pic's creepiness factor is sufficient to rate this a notch above genre average. |
With: Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir, Mackenzie Gray, Bob Rathie, Shawn Macdonald, Ben Wilkinson, Luis Javier. |
The crew for a fake TV ghost-hunting show has an unfortunate brush with genuine supernatural phenomena in “Grave Encounters.” Debut feature for duo Colin Minihan and Stuart Ortiz, who’ve dubbed themselves the Vicious Brothers (not to be confused with fellow horror helmers the Butcher Brothers), treads by-now-familiar s... |
Reality-TV producer Jerry Hartfeld (Ben Wilkinson) introduces the action, explaining that his company was psyched about a program that had been pitched by an outside team of alleged “paranormal investigators.” Things were going well until episode six, he says, adding that what we are about to see is raw footage culled ... |
Collingwood has been shuttered for nearly 50 years, but local residents and a caretaker (Bob Rathie) report having seen or heard signs of disturbance. An area historian reports the place had a reputation for miserable conditions, and that one doctor overly fond of practicing lobotomies was actually killed by a group of... |
This is all grist for the mill of the “Grave Encounters” show’s host, Lance Preston (Sean Rogerson), whose off-camera seriousness about the supernatural is exposed when he bribes the property’s gardener to make up a ghost-sighting story for the program. Lance and his crew — played by Ashleigh Gryzko, Juan Riedinger and... |
Gradually, however, they realize to their distress that no faking is necessary. Poltergeisty noises and inanimate-object movements lead to ghastly sights and ghostly violence. Tech guy Matt (Riedinger) goes missing. And when morning should come, along with the caretaker to unlock the front entrance (this being an asylu... |
As usual in this sort of exercise, once things start going south, panicked characters get on our nerves as well as each other’s, yelling accusations of blame and arguing over escape strategies. The whole “found footage” conceit is never as persuasive here as in as in subgenre models “The Blair Witch Project” and “Paran... |
Still, pacing is taut, the setting eerie, and eventual scares are fairly effective if never particularly original. If a somewhat formulaic air hangs over whole enterprise, it’s nonetheless creepier and less cookie-cutter than your average mainstream slasher. Tech/design factors are polished within the faux-verite conce... |
Production: A Tribeca Film (in U.S.) release of a Tribeca Film in association with American Express presentation of a Digital Interference and Twin Engine Films production in association with Darclight. Produced by Shawn Angelski. Executive producers, Shawn Angelski, Colin Minihan, Stuart Ortiz, Mark Knechtel, Steve Sh... |
Crew: Camera (color, HD), Tony Mirza; music, Quynne Craddock; production designer, Paul McCulloch; costume designer, Natalie Simon; sound (Dolby Digital), Peter Kepkay; sound designer/re-recording mixer, Vince Renaud; visual effects, the Vicious Brothers; assistant director, Michael Bender; casting, Laura Brooke Toplas... |
With: With: Sean Rogerson, Ashleigh Gryzko, Juan Riedinger, Merwin Mondesir, Mackenzie Gray, Bob Rathie, Shawn Macdonald, Ben Wilkinson, Luis Javier. |
An agreement reached by Laguna Beach and the American Civil Liberties Union in a nearly three-year-old class action lawsuit, over the accommodations for disabled homeless people at the city’s night shelter, could resonate throughout Orange County. |
A judge still must certify the agreement, but lawyers for the plaintiffs are calling it a “road map” for the county government and other cities to follow in complying with federal laws — the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 — when providing shelter to homeless people who have physical ... |
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