The new Income Tax Return (ITR) forms for the assessment year 2018-19 were notified on Thursday by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) that mandated salaried class assessees to provide their salary breakup and businessmen their GST number and turnover. The policy-making body of the tax department said some fields have been “rationalised” in …

The controversy surrounding a 29-year-old police constable’s request to the Maharashtra government to undergo a sex reassignment surgery, has prompted the state police to include gender determination test in their recruitment process. Lalita Salve, who now prefers to be called Lalit, met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis last month seeking his permission to undergo the surgery and be retained in the …

FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel wants the agency to be more involved in ensuring the false alert mistakenly sent in January warning that a ballistic missile was about to hit the islands doesn’t happen again. At a field hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet in Honolulu Thursday, Rosenworcel said the agency could take a number …

If you’ve wanted to play a modern video game set in J.K. Rowling’s world of magic and muggles, you won’t have long to wait — the first fruits of a recent deal to make lots of Harry Potter video games will arrive on April 25. It’s called Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery — perhaps you caught the trailer last month? — …

Facebook’s fact-checking partners tasked with fighting fake news aren’t happy with their bosses at the social media giant. Top brass at several news outlets hired to help clean up Facebook’s misinformation problem in the wake of the 2016 presidential election say Facebook hasn’t been transparent about the effectiveness of their efforts and has ignored requests to improve the process, according …

Apple, Google, and now Facebook — each will let developers turn your phone into a window to another world. Just point your camera at a poster, and computer-generated characters and objects can augment your world. Case in point: Facebook app’s built-in camera can now unlock a secret little portal inside any poster from the new Steven Spielberg film Ready Player …

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It’s been more than four years — December 2013 — since Apple’s flagship desktop PC has seen a substantial update. And it still won’t see one this year. The new Mac Pro will arrive in 2019, according to a new interview with senior Apple executives. “We want to be transparent and communicate openly with our pro community so we want …

Alongside a new iPad, Apple last week announced a bunch of software tweaks and updates to help the company’s education efforts. One of the software features Apple unveiled is called Smart Annotation. This feature works in Pages on an iPad. What makes this feature “smart” is that any annotations are tied to the text in a document, so if a sentence …

The smartphone business may not have peaked after all.  Smartphone sales fell year over year for the first time in the fourth quarter, leading industry watchers to ponder if it had passed its prime. It’s a lot harder to get excited about phones nowadays, with each subsequent version coming with a slight tweak to design and better internal specs.  But, …