In Letter To Arun Jaitley, Nitish Kumar Explains Why Langars Should Be Made GST-Free

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley asking him to make langars exempted from GST, the new national sales tax.

India's economic growth is expected to rebound to 7.3 per cent this fiscal and further to 7.6 per cent in 2019-20 with increased productivity post GST and investment revival due to banking reform, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said today.

Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Monday said it is easy to advocate one uniform GST rates for all goods, but it cannot be done ignoring political realities.

The government today said the re-introduction of the e-way bill system under GST has been "very successful" with no technical glitches.

Demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax (GST) were "massive damage" to Indian economy and left many unemployed, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said in Karnataka during an interaction with college students.

Congress MP Pratap Singh Bajwa wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding revocation of the GST on purchases made for "langar/prasad" at the Golden Temple, Durgiani Mandir and Ram Tirath temple in Punjab.

The Congress used disgraced firm Cambridge Analytica in the Gujarat election and also took its help to come up with its viral catch-phrases "Gabbar Singh Tax" and "Vikas Gone Crazy", the government implied today after Rahul Gandhi tweeted that allegations had been "invented" to deflect attention from a controversy over 39 Indians killed in Iraq.

The Indian economy hit a five-quarter high of 7.2% in the October-December period.

The parliamentarians also asked the panel to review the status of implementation of the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission.

The World Bank on Wednesday projected India's GDP growth at 7.3 per cent for the next financial year

State Bank of India (SBI) reduced charges for non-maintenance of average monthly balance (AMB) on savings accounts by up to 75 per cent. This move is aimed at benefiting 25 crore customers, India's largest bank, said in an official statement. The charges for non-maintenance of AMB for customers in metro and urban centres have been reduced from a maximum of Rs 50 per m...

From April 1, 2018, SBI said it will charge a maximum of Rs 15 plus GST for a month for non-maintenance of average monthly balance (AMB) in the savings bank accounts held by customers in metro and urban branches.

For semi-urban and rural centres, the charges have been reduced from Rs 40 per month plus GST to Rs 12 and Rs 10 per month plus GST, respectively, the bank said in a release.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that internal bickering and generational fight within the Congress party and issues relating to corruption led to its defeat in the 2014 general election.