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New Delhi: The Income Tax department issued an advisory saying that facility of free of cost and instant allotment of e-PAN is available only for a limited period on first-come-first-serve basis for valid Aadhaar holders. The Income Tax department has launched an 'instant' Aadhaar-based PAN allotment service for individuals seeking to obtain the unique identity for the first time.

A senior official said the new facility has been introduced in view of an increasing number of people applying to obtain the Permanent Account Number (PAN) for their financial and tax matters. A fresh PAN will be allotted on the basis of a onetime password (OTP) sent over the "active mobile number" linked with the valid Aadhaar number of a person, the advisory said.

New Delhi: The Delhi government under the AamAadmi Party (AAP) has announced that to push for their demand that Delhi get full statehood, they will launch a campaign from July 1 where every locality's elected representative will be invited to discuss why Delhi needs to be a full statehood status.

Delhi Cabinet Minister GopalRai said: "On July 1, AamAadmiParty(AAP) will organise a state gathering at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium at 3 p.m., where every locality's representative will participate and discuss why the national capital needs full statehood."

In the next phase of "Dillimaangeapnahaq" (Delhi demands its right) campaign, he said, the AAP, from July 3-25, will reach out to 10 lakh families in Delhi to sign on the demand for full statehood.

New Delhi: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that contribution of former Prime ministerIndira Gandhi cannot be ignored just because of her 1975 decision of imposing emergency.Raut attacked Prime Minister NarendraModi and the BJP for raking up the emergency issue.

He also said that Gandhi was "pro-democracy" as she called for elections in 1977 after lifting Emergency which she lost. In his weekly column in party mouthpiece "Saamana", Raut said it would be "treason" to reject the contribution of national leaders like Jawaharlal Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel, Rajendra Prasad, B R Ambedkar, Netaji Bose and Veer Savarkar.

New Delhi: Uttara Pant, a government school principal, was suspended for not taking permission to attend the ‘jantadarbar’ held at the chief minister’s residence on Thursday. The school principal had an argument with Uttarakhand chief minister TrivendraRawat at an open forum. She was on suspended by the state’s school education department.

“You have attended jantadarbar with taking permission (from authorities) and created scene over there which is against the employee service conduct,” reads the suspension letter issued by KS Chauhan, acting district education officer, Uttarkashi.

The principal, posted at a school in Uttarkashi, was not attending the school for last nine months, according to education officials. A video of the incident, which went viral, shows her arguing with the chief minister over her posting. She questioned why she was not getting a transfer despite having served in a remote area for 25 years.