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Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray stormed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Center on Sunday when he picked up various problems, from his promise of the Covid-19 vaccination survey in Bihar to what he called the failure of Goods and Services Tax Regime (GST). Thackeray, while speaking at his …

MUMBAI: In the next few days, banks will credit billions of loan accounts with an ex gratia payment equal to the interest on the amount of interest they have paid at closing. The Banking Association of India has said that the government’s decision to apply a uniform formula for all …

NEW DELHI: On Friday, the government invoked the stock limit rules under the Essential Commodities Act for Onions as prices continued to rise in almost every city. The rules came into force 31 days after Parliament passed amendments to the EC Law, which has a provision to invoke this clause …

Senior Deputy Minister Manish Sisodia suggested on Thursday that the curriculum for all classes should be reduced to 50% due to continued loss of classroom learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic and entrance exams such as NEET and JEE next year should be based on a reduced curriculum. Sisodia made …

MUMBAI: One day after the CBI responded swiftly to a request from UP police and orders from the Center taking over a ‘TRP scam’ Investigation In Lucknow, the coalition government led by Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday prevented the central agency from investigating any cases in Maharashtra without the prior consent …

NEW DELHI: Just one day after top BJP officials alleged that Chirag Paswan is trying to create confusion by pledging support for the Saffron party despite leaving the NDA in Bihar, the LJP chief appealed to voters on Saturday to guarantee a BJP-LJP government in the state. Chirag tweeted on …

With the Center agreeing to borrow ₹ 1.1 lakh crore from a special window of the Reserve Bank of India and re-lend it to states, some of the seven states that have not yet accepted the plan are now able to sign it, the Government officials with direct knowledge of …

The Center has demonstrated its arithmetic skills in the superiority game with the states over who pays the GST compensation deficit in this pandemic year. After several opposition states threatened to take the whole matter to court, the Center has come up with a plan that makes it appear that …

Top Union ministers and Delhi governments traded blame on Thursday when the city’s air quality was downgraded to “very bad”, a stark replay of how the crisis unfolded in recent years when about 30 Millions of people are exposed to dangerous levels of pollution in the run-up to winter. Delhi’s …

NEW DELHI: For the first time, the GST council failed to reach a consensus due to the sharp division along political lines, which Center leave 20-something state Issue bonds to raise funds and cover the collection shortfall. Continuing from where they left, the 10 opposition-ruled states and UT lobbied for …