Direct tax help

No, studying only from Practice Manual will not help you fully.

I would recommend Bangar's Quick Referencer cum Compiler.

It covers questions from Practice Manual.

It covers amendments.

It also has summary notes for each topic.

Total pages are 470. This can be done in 2 months very easily.

This book has all the case laws excluding the cases given in Recent Select Cases Book by ICAI. For that, you can download the summary of recent cases from this link : /share_files/26-paged-dt-cases-summary-for-may-15-66259.asp