Day: December 24, 2018

Australia skipper Tim Paine said Monday he is ‘relishing going head-to-head’ with his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli in a Test series and looked forward to ‘intense, hard’ cricket in the Boxing Day
game at Melbourne.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday released a stamp and a coin to commemorate the Paika rebellion of 1817 in Odisha.

In a shocking claim, the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) said it has busted a racket of fraudulent companies engaged in raising fake tax invoices worth Rs 220 crore to avail of input-tax credit.

They came, audiences saw, they conquered — that’s quite how it was for actors such as Vicky Kaushal, Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte and Taapsee Pannu who delivered quality films in a year where big stars failed as box office draws.

A memorial of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be dedicated to the nation on his birth anniversary Tuesday at Rashtriya Smriti Sthal here.

Scientists have discovered fossilised newborn insects and egg shells preserved together in amber dating back to 130 million years, which provide the first direct evidence of how prehistoric critters hatched.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Monday hinted at further rationalisation of GST by merging the 12 and 18 per cent slabs, while criticising Congress for oppressing the country with a high indirect tax rate of 31 per cent. With an increase in revenue, India will eventually have a standard goods and services tax (GST) rate between 12-18 per cent for commonly used goods. This would be in addition to 0 per cent and 5 per cent for essential items and a higher rate for luxury, sin and demerit goods.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today hit out at the Naveen Patnaik-led BJD government in Odisha, saying the “demon of corruption” in various sectors has become strong in the state.

Over 30 passengers had a great escape when a bus skidded off a slippery, icy hill road and teetered precariously over a steep gorge in Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district today, police said.

The AAP today alleged that its office in central Delhi’s DDU Marg was ransacked by Youth Congress workers during a protest and warned that such “action could lead to a reaction.”