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Which corporate hospital in Hyderabad has the best Facebook Cover image? “Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.” ― Ayn Rand,  The Fountainhead Most of you thought it is Apollo Health City's Facebook cover image but it's not. Surprised? Read on.  Though Apollo Health City Facebook page has 65k followers, using a generic campaign creative on its cardiac treatment expertise looks vague. My feeling is that either a patient or a star heart transplant surgeon should have been at the heart of the cover image. In case of the latter, my bet is on Dr Alla Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Cardio Thoracic Surgeon, who could have been featured instead but the management may be wary of a doctor becoming bigger than the hospital. This creative goes well with the violet color of Care Hospitals but the designer should have run a spell-check on November! By the way, lung cancer being the most common cancer in Indian men could be factually incorrect. It s...

Leonia Resort's CMD Arrested Over GST Evasion

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It may be late but the law will catch up with GST violators in Hyderabad. In a major development, Leonia resorts CMD GS Chakravati has been arrested by Director General of GST Intelligence (DGGI), Hyderabad, for evasion of GST to the tune of Rs. 13.81 crores. Sources said the resort has been collecting GST from their customers/guests and retaining the same with them, besides diverting the tax amounts so collected for private purposes, instead of paying it to the government since July 2017. The GST law stipulates that all the amounts representing GST collected from service recipients have to be mandatorily credited into the government credit and that periodical returns are filed by a specific date, every month. However, the resort and its management chose to not to pay the tax to the government and not filed any statutorily prescribed returns, with a deliberate intention to evade GST. The management of the resort has a dubious history of not paying applicable servi...