The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, at the end of day one of its meeting here on Tuesday, decided on the issue of compensation for states, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here. “One main issue in today’s (Tuesday) agenda was to calculate the compensation for states and this matter was concluded in the […]
Parliament’s Standing Committee on External Affairs was on Tuesday informed that surgical strikes-like military operations had taken place in the past too but were never made public, informed sources said. The matter came up in the meeting of the Standing Committee, attended among others by Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi, where the members were briefed by […]
Separatists called protest shutdown paralysed life for 103rd consecutive day in Kashmir Valley, however, authorities on Wednesday did not impose any curfew or restrictions anywhere. “No curfew or restrictions have been imposed anywhere today (Wednesday),” a senior police official said here. “Adequate deployment of security forces have been made to maintain law and order across […]
In most areas of the world, public drinking fountains expel tap water, but the newest public drinking fountain in Italy flows red with wine — and it’s free to the public. The 24-hour seven days a week “fontana del vino” in Caldari di Ortona has been installed by Dora Sarchese vineyard winery. There’s no catch […]
Value buying, coupled with broadly positive global indices and a strengthened rupee lifted the Indian equity markets on Tuesday. Besides, higher global crude oil prices and hopes of healthy quarterly results supported the key indices’ upward movement. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) gained 157.50 points or 1.85 per cent to […]
In what is an obvious reference to Pakistan’s use of terrorism as an instrument of state policy, External Affairs Sushma Swaraj on Tuesday said that the invitation to member states of the Bimstec group for an outreach summit at the BRICS Summit last weekend showed that these countries “today represent the polar opposite of a […]
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard Medical School have developed a biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber which can be implanted in the body to deliver therapeutic pulses of light or light up at the first sign of disease. According to the study, the researchers suggested that such stretchable, strain-sensing optical fibers […]
The UN Security Council strongly condemned the recent failed ballistic missile launch conducted by the North Korea. In a press statement, the 15-nation council said on Monday that the attempted launch is a grave violation of the North Korea’s obligations under Security Council resolutions, Xinhua news agency reported. South Korea’s military said on October 16 […]
The United States military has confirmed that it has deployed troops on the frontlines, in the offensive to retake the city of Mosul from Daesh (ISIL) terrorists, media reports said. Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve, the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq is mostly made up of Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. In […]
Australian soldiers will join Iraqi security forces and the international coalition in an operation to recapton ure Mosul city from the the Islamic State (IS) terror group, Defence Minister Marise Payne said Tuesday. “We are continuing our work providing support to the Iraqi security forces throughout the Mosul offensive,” Payne said. “I’m not going to […]