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Five pct concessional GST for specified items for physically challenged pe
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 4 (ANI): The Centre or more specifically the Ministry of Finance has listed 22 products or devices for physically challenged persons that will attract a concessional GST rate of five percent only.
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Digital payment up by 55 percent, notes NITI Aayog
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): An analysis of the current digital payments landscape in the country revealed that during the financial year 2016-17, there has been a 55 percent increase in digital payments, as revealed by Ratan P Watal, Principal Advisor, NITI Aayog and former finance sec
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What's wrong if an organisation doing "good work" gets reco
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 3 (ANI): After a major RTI revelation claimed that nearly 86 percent of the grant sanctioned by the then Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh for cow welfare was given to her NGO, Mulayam Singh's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav on Monday asked w
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Instead of investigating their own, BJP going after Opposition: Congress
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 3 (ANI): After an RTI claimed that 86 percent of Samajwadi Party government's cow welfare fund has been granted to Mulayam's daughter-in-law's NGO, Congress leader Akhilesh Pratap on Monday said the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Par
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Record inflation augurs perfectly well for GST launch: ASSOCHAM
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 2 (ANI): With retail prices growing by the slowest pace in the last four years by mere 2.18 percent, it is the perfect time for the launch of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), from inflation point of view, as this particular macro fundamental is placed at an ideal pos
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Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe: Dickwella fined for attempted Mire stumping
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Dubai [UAE], July 1 (ANI): Niroshan Dickwella of Sri Lanka has been fined 30 percent of his match fee and received two demerit points for attempting a stumping which was "contrary to the spirit of the game" during the first ODI of the five-match series against Zimbabwe in Galle on
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Maruti Suzuki passes on GST benefits on vehicles to customers
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Maruti Suzuki India on Saturday announced Goods and Services Tax (GST) benefits on the ex-showroom prices of their models by offering upto three percent cut on its vehicles segment.
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Shoppers save big with Big Bazaar's special GST sale
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Mumbai/New Delhi [India], July 1 (ANI): Shoppers reaped the benefits of Big Bazaar's 'GST Muharat bonanza, offering up to 22 percent savings and cashback offers, in lieu of the rollout of the much-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST).
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GST Council reduces tax rate on fertilizer from 12 pct to 5 pct
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 30 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday informed that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on fertilizers has been brought down from 12 percent to five percent.
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Overweight teens are 80% more likely to suffer a stroke in adulthood
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 29 (ANI): Parents please take note! If your son becomes overweight during his teenage years then he is 80 percent more likely to have a stroke in adulthood, warns a study.
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Nepal's second phase polls witness 70.5% voter turnout
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Kathmandu [Nepal], June 29 (ANI): Nepal's second phase polls, which commenced in three provinces covering much of the volatile southern plains, witnessed 70.5 percent voter turnout, the country's Election Commission has said.
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Rural Indian women register dramatic gains in nutrition, food security
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], June 28 (ANI-Businesswire India): New research and project results from the Rajasthan Nutrition Project show dramatic improvement in the food security, nutrition, and health practices of women, girls and infants. In just two years time, the percentage of female he
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