Sitharaman’s ‘Diwali gift’: From paneer to paratha, Centre explains tweaks in GST rates – The Times of India

Sitharaman’s ‘Diwali gift’: From paneer to paratha, Centre explains tweaks in GST rates – The Times of India

In what the government on Wednesday called a Diwali gift, the GST Council has approved sweeping rate cuts across key sectors. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that daily-use items like hair oil, shampoo, toothpaste, soap, toothbrushes, and shaving cream will now attract just 5% GST, down from 18%. GST on individual health and life insurance…

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‘Illegal retaliation’: Judge blocks Trump administration’s Harvard grant cuts; restores  billion in research funding – The Times of India

‘Illegal retaliation’: Judge blocks Trump administration’s Harvard grant cuts; restores $2 billion in research funding – The Times of India

US President Donald Trump (AP) Harvard University scored a major legal victory on Wednesday after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants. US district judge Allison Burroughs ruled that the administration’s actions amounted to illegal retaliation against the Ivy League school for rejecting White House…

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Soni Razdan reacts to Jaya Bachchan being defined by husband Amitabh Bachchan’s name: ‘She is very much her own woman’ | – The Times of India

Soni Razdan reacts to Jaya Bachchan being defined by husband Amitabh Bachchan’s name: ‘She is very much her own woman’ | – The Times of India

Veteran actress Soni Razdan, who essays the role of legendary Kashmiri singer Raj Begum in the recently released streaming film Songs of Paradise, recently opened up about the way women are still perceived in the industry.In an interview with Screen, she was asked about privileged women in cinema still being defined by their husbands’ names,…

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Governor’s absolute discretion on bills means negating people’s will: West Bengal in Supreme Court | India News – The Times of India

Governor’s absolute discretion on bills means negating people’s will: West Bengal in Supreme Court | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: West Bengal on Wednesday warned that vesting governors with discretion to decide the fate of bills would jeopardise states’ legislative functions, while Supreme Court-prescribed timeline for governors and the President would expedite transforming people’s will into laws. This would not amount to amending the Constitution, it told the court. The TMC govt, through…

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Punjab cops on his trail, AAP MLA says he feared encounter, denies attack on police | Chandigarh News – The Times of India

Punjab cops on his trail, AAP MLA says he feared encounter, denies attack on police | Chandigarh News – The Times of India

Harmeet Singh Pathan Majra (File Photo) PATIALA: Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) is leading the search for AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who released a video from an undisclosed location on Wednesday, denying any attack on the police team that had gone to arrest him at a relative’s home in Haryana’s Karnal district on…

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