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[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment KATHMANDU, Nepal — There are “no survivors” from the Yeti Airlines plane that crashed near Nepal’s new Pokhara Airport on Sunday, authorities said. Tek Bahadur K.C., chief district officer of Kaski District, said in a phone interview that the authorities were “trying to recover four bodies from the Seti River Gorge,” which he said was nearly 1,000 feet deep. The four bodies were the last people who had been unaccounted for after officials said Sunday that at least 68 of the 72 people on the plane had died. The flight had departed from the capital, Kathmandu, around 10:30 a.m. local time Sunday bound for Pokhara, a city about 125 miles west of Kathmandu popular with tourists. The flight was expected to be about 25 minutes, and authorities were alerted of the crash about 11 a.m., Assistant Sub Inspector Rudra Thapa of the Pokhara police said Sunday. At least 68 dead after plane carrying 72 crashes near Nepal airport Rescuers reached the crash si...

[ad_1] New Delhi: Good news for corporates! The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has extended the deadline for filing income tax returns for the Assessment Year 2024-25. Originally set for October 31, 2024, the new deadline is now November 15, 2024, according to the Ministry of Finance. This extension applies to income tax returns for the fiscal year 2023-24, now due by November 15. This follows a recent government move to extend the deadline for submitting tax audit reports to October 7, 2024, from the original deadline of September 30, 2024. Specific taxpayers under income tax law are required to complete an income tax audit and submit the report by September 30 of the assessment year. Sandeep Jhunjhunwala, tax partner at Nangia Anderson LLP clarified that this extension doesn’t affect deadlines for the Tax Audit Report, transfer pricing certification in Form 3CEB, or other forms like Form 10DA, which will still need to be submitted by October 31, 2024. Rajat Mohan, Se...

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment When I first met Jorie Graham around 1980, at a literary party somewhere in the Village, she was a film student at New York University, where, passing a lecture hall on campus one day, she heard words that had changed her life. Slipping into the back of the lecture hall, she discovered, listening to the critic M.L. Rosenthal, that she had heard the final line of T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”: “Till human voices wake us, and we drown.” At that moment, she knew herself a poet. This sounded not so much like the lightning bolt of Rilke’s clarion call (“You must change your life”) but rather recognition of a new language, beyond the three she already had (French, Italian, English). This was the poet’s tongue, overheard in its vocal intensity. If this was a soul awakening, it was eerily prophetic: the sound of a human voice waking a poet to a lifelong immersion in poetry. Six poems that celebrate magic acts of living This seeming...

[ad_1] Soccer Football - Champions League - Round of 16 First Leg - Paris St Germain v Bayern Munich - Parc des Princes, Paris, France - February 14, 2023 Paris St Germain's Lionel Messi reacts. — Reuters Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi has agreed to sign a deal with Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal, UK-based publication Daily Express reported Monday. Messi's future with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has been one of the main talking points in the football world, especially after the World Cup and with his contract set to expire at the end of this season. "The Argentina captain has been linked with a host of teams including Inter Miami and a return to Barcelona but it now appears he has settled on another club instead," the publication reported. The deal will be £262 million a year, which will be one of the most expensive contracts in football history, it said. Two of his former Barcelona teammates — Busquets and Jordi Alba — are also set to join him in Riyadh...

[ad_1] Rudy Giuliani must immediately pay $148 million to two Georgia election workers he defamed , with a federal judge suggesting the former New York mayor may have been dishonest about his finances and expressing concern he might not comply with the judgment. The latest twist in the defamation case comes just days after Giuliani was ordered to pay $148 million to the two women, Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Wandrea "Shaye" Moss. Giuliani had falsely claimed in the wake of the 2020 presidential election that they engaged in a fake ballot processing scheme while they served as election workers.  In a scathing ruling on Wednesday, Judge Beryl Howell questioned Giuliani's objections that he couldn't afford to pay a large monetary award. "Such claims of Giuliani's 'financial difficulties' — no matter how many times repeated or publicly disseminated and duly reported in the media — are difficult to square with the fact that Giuliani affords a spoke...

[ad_1] KARACHI: The most valuable quality that a socially conscious and responsible business can demonstrate to its stakeholders is its understanding that profits cannot be achieved without integrating people and the planet into its purpose. A rise in this approach can be observed in how organisations are rethinking their approach to conventional CSR. They are endeavouring to infuse sustainability with their strategic objectives, thereby improving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. Due to the pressure from investors, regulators, and consumers, corporates are shifting their products and processes to become more sustainable and inclusive, and tangibly reflecting on how they are contributing to the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDGs serve to prompt governments, the public sector, and society at large to put ethical and pressing issues at the heart of policy, processes, and decision-making. The goals function as a set of guiding pri...

[ad_1] A Tennessee police department released video of its officers capturing a wild beaver in an unlikely place – a hospital on Christmas Day. The Bartlett Police Department published video of the bizarre incident on Instagram Wednesday. A hospital operator at Saint Francis Hospital called police after being alerted to the animal. "You guys asked for the body cam footage from the St. Francis Beaver Wranglers so… ask and ye shall receive," the Bartlett Police Department wrote in an Instagram caption. The police department also included 911 call audio. "I didn't know who to call, so I thought maybe you might help me," the hospital employee told police. "[A nurse] wanted me to call animal control because there is a beaver in the lobby of the hospital." WISCONSIN POTBELLIED PIG ‘ALBERT’ LURED HOME WITH FRUIT SNACKS: ‘SWEET AND STICKY TREATS’ The Bartlett Police Department published video of the bizarre beaver incident on Instagram Wednesday. (@b...