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GST council meet underway: 6 major annou...

GST council meet underway: 6 major announcements we can expect from govt.

After months of rolling out the Goods and Services Tax Bill (GST), the government may modify some rules that might cheer the small and medium businesses. As the 22nd meeting of the GST council, chaired by Arun Jaitley is underway, many are expecting some major announcements ahead of the festive... read more »

Mumbai: Top CA Nilesh Vikamsey’s D...

Mumbai: Top CA Nilesh Vikamsey’s Daughter Pallavi Found Dead On Railw...

MUMBAI: A budding lawyer, Pallavi Vikamsey, 20, has died after falling off a local train at Currey Road station on Wednesday evening. Pallavi is the daughter of Nilesh Vikamsey, the president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI). According to social media posts, the family was... read more »

Japanese reporter died after 159 hours o...

Japanese reporter died after 159 hours of overtime.

TOKYO: Japan’s public broadcaster has vowed to reform its working practices as it revealed that a young reporter died of heart failure after logging 159 hours of overtime in a month. NHK reporter Miwa Sado, 31, who had been covering political news in Tokyo, was found dead in her bed in July... read more »

Bengaluru, Hyderabad bear the brunt of h...

Bengaluru, Hyderabad bear the brunt of heavy October downpour, civic servic...

The monsoon has caused much havoc in parts of southern India even at the fag end of the season. The regions which bore the brunt this time were the cities of Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mysuru and nearby areas. Bengaluru on Thursday witnessed 65 mm rainfall, which was the highest rainfall in a day in the... read more »

Belgian police kill two in raid on suspected Islamists

Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch “terrorist... read more »

US drone strike kills seven in South Waziristan

PESHAWAR – At least seven suspected militants have been killed while four others injured in a US drone strike near the Pak-Afghan border in South Waziristan Agency. Two of the dead... read more »

Six labourers killed, 10 injured in coalmine blast

KALAYA: Six labourers were killed and seven others sustained injuries in a coalmine explosion in the Doli area in Orakzai Agency where the Mines and Minerals Department has declared several... read more »

Nigerians displaced by Boko Haram may be ineligible to vote in upcoming election

Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions. Now they seem likely to lose their vote. A... read more »

Charlie Hebdo: Why Pope Francis’s friendly ‘punchR...

Pope Francis, widely acknowledged as one of the most progressive popes in recent times, appears to have joined the “condemn, but” brigade in the context of the Charlie Hebdo killings by... read more »