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The GST Council, chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is scheduled to hold a two-day meeting to discuss the revisions of tax slabs. This meeting comes as the Centre nears the deadline for implementing the next-generation reforms under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime by early October. Revenue Secretary Arvind Shrivastava, who is the ex-officio secretary of the Council, issued a notice last month regarding the meeting, and also alerted that the meeting of officers’ of states and Centre will be held a day before the 56th meeting of the GST Council. When is the GST Council meeting?…

US Congress returns to session amid renewed unrest; Chicago braces for possible federal troop deployment.

New Delhi, Delhi Police has arrested from Gujarat’s Godhra a man who was convicted in a 2006 double murder case here and has been on the run for nearly a decade after jumping parole, an officer said here on Tuesday. Double-murder convict arrested in Gujarat after being on run for nearly 10 years Hasin Hussan , a resident of Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2013 by a Delhi court for killing two of his neighbours and attempting to murder another in Welcome area in 2006, said Deputy Commissioner of Police Sanjeev Kumar Yadav. His…

MORE THAN two years after Manipur erupted in ethnic violence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit the state this month. The PM is scheduled to be in Assam and Mizoram on September 13-14, and sources said he may visit Manipur too.“The PM’s visit to the state is imminent. We cannot say the exact date now as too many factors have to be taken into account before making the final announcement. But he is visiting the state,” an informed source in Manipur said. The Opposition has often attacked Modi for not visiting Manipur even once since the clashes between…

Female soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army stand in formation as they practice for an upcoming military parade to mark the 80th Anniversary of the end of World War II and Japan’s surrender, at a military base on August 20, 2025 in Beijing. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/Getty Images AsiaPac hide caption toggle caption Kevin Frayer/Getty Images/Getty Images AsiaPac TAIPEI, Taiwan — As Imperial Japanese soldiers scour the streets, a group of civilians in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing seek refuge in a small photography studio. Developing photographs taken throughout the city, they uncover evidence of the horrific war crimes being…

Mainstream Kannada cinema has shied away from the topic of caste. For filmmaker Bheemrao P, it was important to ensure that his debut venture didn’t get nipped in the bud. While promoting his movie, Hebbuli Cut, he called the film a tender story of a boy’s dream to get a fancy hairstyle. The film is more than that, but Bheemrao wanted to generate buzz around his film, before anything else.“The moment you mention Ambedkarism, a section of people will distance themselves from your movie. Hence, I stressed the fact that my movie was a ‘commercially engaging social drama’,” he tells…

Pre-diabetes should not be taken lightly. In fact, experts urge that it is a “crucial warning sign”. “It’s a red flag from your body, telling you that insulin resistance has already started. The earlier you act, the better the outcome,” stressed Dr Pankaj Sharma, director, dept. of a bariatric, general, and laparoscopic surgeon, Fortis Hospital, and founder, Shalya Clinic, Rohini, New Delhi. Notably, pre-diabetes means your blood sugar is higher than normal, but not yet in the diabetes range. “The good news is, with the right lifestyle changes, pre-diabetes can often be reversed, sometimes in as little as a month,”…

Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories Congress returns to Capitol Hill today after taking its August recess. During their time away, frustrated constituents addressed lawmakers at town halls across the U.S. about issues related to the economic turmoil and concerns of presidential overreach. Now, lawmakers face those same challenges in Washington, along with a looming government shutdown deadline of Sept. 30. The U.S. Capitol building seen on July 24 in Washington, D.C. Jemal…

India and Nigeria are in the race to host the 2030 Commonwealth Games after submitting their proposals by the August 31 deadline.After Canada “decided to postpone its ambitions,” it has become a two-horse race for the centenary edition of the Games.Following an approval from the Union Cabinet, a delegation, led by Gujarat Sports Minister Harsh Sanghavi, submitted India’s formal proposal to Commonwealth Sport (CS) in London on National Sports Day, August 29. It positioned Amdavad (a local name for Ahmedabad) as the host city for the 2030 Games.Both proposals will now be assessed by a six-member Evaluation Commission (EC), chaired…

The potential abuse of consumer AI tools is raising concerns, with budding cybercriminals apparently able to trick coding chatbots into giving them a leg-up in producing malicious programmes.So-called “vibe hacking,” a twist on the more positive “vibe coding” that generative AI tools supposedly enable those without extensive expertise to achieve, marks “a concerning evolution in AI-assisted cybercrime” according to American company Anthropic.The lab, whose Claude product competes with the biggest-name chatbot, ChatGPT from OpenAI, highlighted in a report published Wednesday the case of “a cybercriminal (who) used Claude Code to conduct a scaled data extortion operation across multiple international targets…