Published on: November 28, 2022

Snippets: 28 November 2022

Snippets: 28 November 2022

  • Surcharges are charged on taxes already paid. It is a tax collected on any tax. Not every earning individual has to pay a surcharge. Applicable only to those individuals and HUFs who come with a high annual income. This is levied on the payable income tax and not on the taxable income.
  • The government collects cess to fulfil a particular pre-decided purpose and can be used for that purpose onl A cess can be introduced and removed at any time.  If the government feels that enough funds have been collected through the taxes, it can abolish the cess. It applies to direct and indirect taxes and to every individual paying tax in India.
  • Sangeet Natak Akademi Award is the highest national recognition given to practicing artists, gurus and scholars. It carries a purse money of Rs. 1,00,000/- by ministry of culture
  • The Russian state owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom has offered a more advanced fuel option to India’s largest nuclear power station at Kudankulam, allow its reactors to run for an extended two-year cycle without stopping to load fresh fuel
  • Beohar Rammanohar Sinha and Nandalal Bose (Artists from Shantiniketan) had decorated the original version of the Constitution.
  • Prem Behari Narain Raizada was a talented calligrapher who had prepared the original copies of the constitution
  • India observes Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas on November 26 every year in order to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution of India
  • National Milk Day is observed annually on 26 November in honour of Dr. Verghese Kurien, the father of the Indian white revolution. This year it will be the 101st anniversary of the revolutionary personality under the initiative taken by the Indian Dairy Association (IDA).