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et GST collection during the month was at ₹1.68 lakh crore, an 8.3% year-on-year growth. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) collections rose 14.8% year-on-year to about ₹2 lakh crore in August. Goods and Services Tax revenue from domestic transactions rose 9.3% to over ₹1.37 lakh crore, while revenue from…
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Essel Group founder Subhash Chandra. File A five-member Bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) stayed an August 25 order approving a ₹6.25-crore repayment plan proposed by Essel Group founder Subhash Chandra in personal insolvency proceedings against him, after finding that no clear majority view had emerged among the…
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Each BLO has to hand over 1,000 notices, which makes the door-to-door visits difficult. Hence, they are calling the electors to come and collect the notices. | Photo Credit: Representational picture Two booth-level officers, a man and a woman, sit at a community hall tucked away to a corner at a locality in Hayathnagar. The…
Image used for representational purposes. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The rupee gained 26 paise to trade at 94.96 per U.S. dollar on Tuesday (September 1, 2026) morning, on robust domestic growth, contained fiscal slippage, and portfolio-related inflows. Forex traders said the USD/INR pair appears to have found a strong near-term base around 95.10-95.20. While…
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The missing ammunition includes rounds meant for the AK-203 rifles and 9 mm pistols. The image is used for representative purposes only. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES A theft of service weapons and ammunition from an Army establishment in Secunderabad has put the cantonment area on high alert, with schools advised to conduct classes online…
In 2021 posed while getting a COVID-19 vaccine injection, quipping: “I’m old enough to get it, and I’m smart enough to get it.” Photo: Instagram/Dolly Parton Dolly Parton’s most enduring contribution to science, from a public point of view, is probably Dolly, the cloned sheep. Though that was a reference to her prominent mammaries, a fact…
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If you go down the rabbit hole of how words travel from one language to another, you just have to listen to this dialect of Tamil that is Madras bashai. It is built around loanwords as Chennai is formed not just of Tamil speakers; Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, English, and Dutch have all found their…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks in a video message regarding India’s economic growth of 7.8% in the April-June quarter. | Photo Credit: Instagram/@narendramodi Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the people on India’s 7.8% GDP growth in the April-June quarter, crediting the nation’s resolve and efforts for the achievement. He also requested people not to buy…
On April 30, 2025, Bibhash Bormedhi looked on as a tonne of waste left Majuli on a boat across the Brahmaputra river. This was a first for the world’s largest river island. “This was the first time the waste from Majuli crossed the Brahmaputra, instead of being dumped into the river,” Mr. Bormedhi, Project Manager…
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Among the 30 Sensex firms, Bajaj Finserv, InterGlobe Aviation, Titan, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance and Axis Bank were among the major laggards. ITC, HCL Tech, Bharti Airtel and Infosys were among the winners. File | Photo Credit: PTI Market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty drifted lower in early trade on Tuesday (September 1,…
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