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New Delhi: After the GST Council approved historical changes to India's indirect tax structure, several daily-use goods will become cheaper from September 22. The new tax structure, adopted on Wednesday, has two major slabs now 5 per cent and 18 per cent, and a whopping...

New Delhi: The GST Council, in its ongoing meeting here, has veered around to bringing consumer goods such as shoes and clothes in the lower price range of up to Rs 2,500 under the lowest GST tax bracket of 5 per cent, according to sources....

New Delhi: The 56th meeting of the GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and comprising state ministers, Wednesday started deliberations on 'next-gen GST' reforms, which will lower tax rates on items of mass consumption, remove duty inversion in sectors, like textiles, and ease...

New Delhi: Aiming to herald one of the biggest reforms in the country, the 56th GST Council meeting is all set to discuss the two-slab tax structure proposed by the Centre’s to reduce GST rates on over 150 items as part of a comprehensive rate...

New York: President Donald Trump's actions are destroying the partnership with India, a prominent US lawmaker and two former top officials have said, cautioning that the American leader's "ego" cannot be allowed to destroy a “strategic relationship" with the world's largest democracy. Indian-American Congressman Ro...

Mumbai: Activist Manoj Jarange Tuesday evening ended his five-day-old fast after the Maharashtra government accepted most of his demands, including granting eligible Marathas Kunbi caste certificates which will make them eligible for reservation benefits available to OBCs. Jarange accepted a glass of fruit juice offered...

Hyderabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC K. Kavitha was Tuesday suspended from the party by her father and party President K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) for anti-party activities. Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) General Secretaries T. Arvind Rao and Soma Bharat Kumar said in a statement that KCR...

Cairo: A massive landslide has destroyed a village in Sudan’s western Darfur region, killing more than 1,000 people, according to a rebel group controlling the area. The disaster is among the deadliest in the country’s recent history. The tragedy happened Sunday in the Tarasin village...

New York/Washington: US President Donald Trump Monday claimed that India has now "offered" to cut its tariffs to nothing, “but it's getting late”, as he said that India buys most of its oil and military products from Russia and very little from the US. "What...

Tianjin (China): Maintenance of peace and tranquility at the border is like an insurance policy for India-China ties and Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed this position to Chinese President Xi Jinping Sunday, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said. The two leaders held wide-ranging talks earlier in...