MUMBAI: With Brent crude prices spiking again to over $105 per barrel, US Treasury bond yields rising to a more than two-decade high and the rupee at close to 96.8/$, strong foreign fund selling pulled the markets sharply down on Thursday. Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank and Bharti Airtel led the slide as sensex lost 1,045…
FM Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the 57th meeting of GST Council. Rate changes will now be an annual feature, says Sitharaman NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday announced a faceless system for 2 lakh central GST payers operating in multiple states, following up on rate rationalisation and process reforms undertaken by the Centre and…
A view of the 57th Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council Meeting, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in New Delhi on Thursday NEW DELHI: Nine years after the biggest indirect reform in the country, GST Council on Friday decided on a massive procedural overhaul that will rework the way businesses operate, enable them…
Elon Musk brings Ambani into the Starlink India delay NEW DELHI: The terrestrial war over providing satellite communication (satcom) services heated up several notches Thursday, with Elon Musk asking on X, “Is Ambani the real boss of India”, hours after govt denied his charge that “certain oligarchs” were blocking Starlink’s entry to India.In his first…
US targets 2 Mumbai companies, 5 Indians in Iran petroleum sanctions (representative image) The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Mumbai-based companies and five Indian nationals over their alleged involvement in the trade of petroleum products from Iran, as Washington stepped up its economic pressure on Tehran.The US department of state targeted SSPL…
The sale prompted opposition from the man’s daughter from his first marriage. (Image for representative purpose only) Land disputes are a tricky matter especially when it comes to property that one person claims is ancestral, and the other as self-acquired.In one such case, a daughter has claimed share in a property that her grandmother and…
Image: Avocado Tree & Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side (2009) In 2007, Sandra Bullock paid $2.725 million for 91 acres of rolling land in the hills of Valley Center, a rural community northeast of San Diego. Over the next decade, she renovated the adobe ranch house, added a guest cottage and barn, and planted…
Pamela Anderson’s return to her family’s Canadian estate has grown into something far more personal than a gardening project. At Arcady, the seven-acre property she bought decades ago, she has developed a 15,000-square-foot garden filled with vegetables, flowers and herbs, drawing inspiration from British, French and Japanese traditions. The garden has become a family effort,…
Image credit: International Book of Records A 19-year-old from Bihar has earned recognition from the International Book of Records after reaching Level 22,222 in the mobile puzzle game Candy Crush Saga. Shubham Kumar, a resident of Dighwara in Bihar, achieved the milestone on July 5, 2026. According to the official website of The International Book…
What are the key reforms that have been announced and what do they mean? Let’s take a look: The 57th GST Council meeting saw the announcement of sweeping reforms aimed at ease of doing business, especially for small businesses. The changes recommended by the Council will take effect from April 1, 2027.Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman…
