India

New Delhi, Jun 18: The official launch of Goods and Services Tax will take place on the midnight of June 30, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley confirmed Sunday as the all powerful GST Council cleared all GST rules, decided the tax rates for contentious lotteries and revisited tariffs for AC hotels revising them downwards. “We don't have the luxury of time to defer implementation of GST. Council

Mumbai, Jun 18: BJP president Amit Shah today met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray at the latter's residence in suburban Bandra. Shah, along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, visited Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree' and held a close-door meeting, which started at around 10 am and lasted for nearly 75 minutes. The meeting comes a day after the BJP chief, who is here on a three-day

New Delhi, Jun 17: The AAP crisis deepened further today with its leader Kumar Vishwas hitting out at its "palace politics", even as posters came up outside its headquarters dubbing him a "friend of the BJP" and a "traitor". Vishwas, who was recently appointed the party's Rajasthan affairs in-charge, made a pointed remark that he would ensure the workers under him adhered to the Aam Aadmi Party's

Srinagar: The militants who ambushed a police party near Achabal town in south Kashmir on Friday disfigured the faces of the six policemen, including a Station House Officer (SHO), slain in the attack before walking away with their weapons, police said. Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) has claimed responsibility for the attack in Anantnag district, that came hours after security

New Delhi, Jun 16: The first meeting between the government and the opposition over the July 17 presidential election ended inconclusively today without any names being discussed by the either side. Union ministers Rajnath Singh and M Venkaiah Naidu met Congress President Sonia Gandhi to discuss the presidential poll as part of the ruling BJP's outreach to stitch a consensus on the official

New York, Jun 16: A woman who was raped by an Uber driver in India in 2014 has filed a lawsuit against the ride- hailing company and its embattled chief executive Travis Kalanick for "unlawfully" obtaining and sharing her medical records related to the sexual assault. The woman, identified only as Jane Doe in the lawsuit filed in federal court in California, said in the complaint that she was

Mumbai, Jun 16: A special anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted notorious criminal Abu Salem Abdul Qayoom Ansari and dreaded smuggler Mustafa Dossa alias Mustafa Majnu and four others in connection with the 12 March 1993 serial blasts case. The verdict was delivered by a special court set up under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) which is presided over by

Bengaluru Jun 16: The state government is ready with the rules and procedures to implement Goods and Services Tax (GST) and will notify the same on June 19, a top official said. “We have already finalised the rules and procedures for the smooth rollout of GST during the GST Council meeting last week. We will issue the formal notification on June 19,” B V Murali Krishna, joint commissioner of

Patna, Jun 15: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday said he will keep visiting Bihar “till the lotus blooms in the State” which has never seen a BJP Chief Minister here till date. Launching a blistering attack on Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad, Yogi, who visited Bihar for the first time after taking over the reigns of UP CM, said, “Their (Lalu-Nitish) alliance is an unholy and

Darjeeling, Jun 15: Protesters and riot police hurled stones at each other and a car was set ablaze after a series of raids today on premises connected with the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha chief, whose separatist campaign was spiralling deeper into violence. The demand by the GJM for a separate Gorkhaland state to be carved out of the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal state is fast turning into a major