The big news: Small, medium firms likely to benefit from GST Council meet, and 9 other top stories
Other headlines: Yashwant Sinha said lack of jobs will be a major factor in the 2019 elections, and seven military personnel died in an Air Force chopper crash.
A look at the headlines right now:
- GST council meeting begins, relief for small and medium business likely to be discussed: The panel is trying to ease difficulties that have risen from shifting to the new tax regime, Revenue Secretary Hasmukh Adhia said.
- Yashwant Sinha says lack of employment will be a major factor in the 2019 election: The BJP leader said that the government had not responded to any of his criticisms, but was happy that the issues flagged by him were being debated.
- Seven military personnel killed after Indian Air Force helicopter crashes in Arunachal Pradesh: The chopper was on an air maintenance mission when it went down near the Chinese border, killing five air force officers and two armymen.
- VK Sasikala gets parole, Tamil Nadu BJP demands inquiry into transplant for AIADMK leader’s husband: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tamil Nadu President Tamilisai Soundararajan alleged that several rules were violated to help M Natarajan.
- ‘Never share personal details on phone’, IT minister responds to Scroll.in report on Aadhaar fraud: People need to ‘be more aware about safety in using financial transactions’, Union Minister for Electronics and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad’s office said.
- India, European Union pledge to step up cooperation and fight terrorism: India, as a neighbour, ‘stood first in line to respond’ to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Myanmar, said European Council President Donald Franciszek Tusk.
- Tropical storm Nate leaves 22 dead, several missing in Central America: At least 11 people were killed in Nicaragua, seven were missing and thousands had to evacuate their homes because of flooding.
- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons receives Nobel Peace Prize 2017: Ican has achieved a treaty-based prohibition of nuclear weapons through international agreements, the committee said.
- US gun lobby group calls for a review of ‘bump fire stocks’ after Las Vegas shooting: The device, when attached to a gun, allows the shooter to fire bullets rapidly.
- Don’t expect restraint if our nuclear sites are struck, Pakistan’s foreign minister tells India: Khawaja Asif added that India was not responding to Pakistani efforts to improve the ties between the two nations.
