The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Saturday finalised April 1, 2018 for the nationwide mandatory rollout of inter-state e-Way Bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here. "Intra-state e-Way Bill will be rolled out in phased manner with four groups of states. Each group will come under it every week after April 1 and ef...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday met business executives of Indian origin in Malaysia and said he "valued actionable solutions over rhetoric". He also assured them that "their interests will be suitably addressed in his party's manifesto". Gandhi met the business executives of the Malaysia India Business Council, Asean India Busines...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received French President Emmanuel Macron at Hyderabad House here on Saturday ahead of bilateral talks between India and France. "Another chapter in the glorious book of our friendship! PM @narendramodi welcomes President of France, @EmmanuelMacron at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi ahead of the bilateral talks," Externa...
Tibetan Prime Minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay on Saturday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to resolve the issue of Tibet through dialogue. He also demanded a Unesco fact-finding mission to visit the holiest Jokhang shrine in Lhasa in Tibet and investigate a fire incident there that destroyed hundreds of Tibetan artefactd a few weeks back. "A...
A paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper committed suicide on Saturday in Srinagar. This is the third consecutive sucide by security men in three days. Constable Sukhdev of the 79 Battalion of CRPF committed suicide in the high security Sonwar area, police sources said. "The jawan shot and killed himself with his service rifle. An FIR...
On her first visit to her home state Kerala after the Supreme Court upheld her marriage with Shafin Jahan, Hadiya on Saturday said "all this happened as I embraced Islam". "The Constitution gives all the freedom to choose their religion, which is a fundamental right of every citizen and all this happened because I embraced Islam," said Hadiya wh...
Heavy shelling and firing started on Saturday between the Indian and Pakistani armies on the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district. The Pakistani army resorted to unprovoked and indiscriminate targeting of defence and civilian facilities in Mankote area using small arms, automatics and mortars, the Defence Ministry sources said. The shelling and f...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday set the goal to achieve social justice in India. He said the nation already has manpower, skill and resources, all it needs is to work on mission mode to bring about the positive change. With am aim to improve India's standing in the Human Development Index (HDI), the Prime Minister stressed on "public participation in the ...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said that France should be the best partner for India and the entry point to Europe. Macron, who arrived here on Friday on a four-day visit to India during the course of which he will co-chair the founding conference of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said he has three pur...
Three women and a gunman were found dead at the Veterans Home of California...
