GST Victory Of Honesty, Says PM Modi In Mann Ki Baat: Highlights

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on Sunday in the 45th edition of his radio programme Mann Ki Baat.

The Directorate General of GST (Goods and Services Tax) Intelligence (DGGI) has detected Rs 672.51 crore worth of tax evasion in 46 cases, in which Rs 15.31 crore were recovered in 20 cases from July 2017 to March 2018, an official said.

Despite an adverse impact of GST implementation, India saw a 20 per cent increase in both the number of dollar millionaires and their wealth in 2017, to emerge as the fastest growing market for high net worth population.

Everyday, when Krishna Kumar serves lunch to his customers along with his wife at the small restaurant he owns in Coimbatore, he says he is reminded of the misfortune that hit him.

National passenger carrier Air India announced it has revised the applicable Excess Baggage Rate (EBR) on domestic sectors effective Monday.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram today said that state of the economy was bad in the country due to the wrong policies of the NDA government and tyres of three of the four wheels on which the economy rides were punctured.