The total collection under GST for the month of December 2017 has been Rs. 80,808 crore
GN Bureau | December 27, 2017
The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC) on Monday announced the schedule for elections to 29 municipal corporations across the state, including the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Polling will be held in a single phase on January 15, 2026, with counting of votes and results sc
Prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday left for a three-day visit of Jordan, Ethiopia and Oman, aiming to enhance age-old civilizational ties as well as extensive contemporary bilateral relations with these nations. In his departure statement ahead of his visit, Modi noted, "Today, I am
Two weeks ago, 28 year old Senthil Kumar (name changed) from Tiruppur died of a heart attack in a labour camp near Dammam, Saudi Arabia. His body came home to Chennai because his employer agreed to pay for the airfare. His family received ₹10 lakh under the Pravasi Bharatiya Bima Yojana (PBBY). The distr
50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza and Harsh Sethi Orient BlackSwan, 376 pages, Rs 1,025
Deepavali, the festival of lights, has been inscribed on UNESCO’s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This was announced at the 20th UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee session at Red Fort, New Delhi, held from December 8-13, 2025. It is the 16th Indian element on thi
The Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT Bombay has launched India’s first deep-tech venture capital fund managed by an academia-linked incubator -- the Y-Point Venture Capital Fund. With a total corpus of Rs 250 crore, the fund aims to accelerate early-stage deep-tech startups b
