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The GST council, which is headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, is expected to discuss the ONDC in the meeting.Under ONDC, a buyer places an order with an e-commerce platform, which itself procures that consignment from another e-commerce platform.This has led to confusion among authorities as to which of these entities should be taxed, due to multiple agencies involved.It is on this vexed issue that the GST council is likely to take a call in its July 11 meeting.Also the council is likely to take up the issue of excess input tax credit (ITC), which is claimed by business entities.The…

These hotels are coming up at Gandikota in YSR Kadapa district, Visakhapatnam and Tirupati.The groundbreaking ceremony held at Gandikota is a follow-up of the MoU signed with the Oberoi Group at the Global Investors Summit at Visakhapatnam in March 2023.Senior officials on behalf of the Government and Vikram Oberoi, MD of Oberoi Group had exchanged MoU in the presence of the Chief Minister.Participating in the Bhoomi Puja, the Chief Minister said that it would help Gandikota, known as the Grand Canyon of India, find a place on the world tourism map.“It would provide direct and indirect employment to 500 to…

Ritu Maheshwari, who earlier held the additional charge of Greater Noida along with Noida Authority, will now look after the work of Noida Authority only.According to the information received, the agitation by the farmers of Greater Noida on various demands finally overshadowed Ritu Maheshwari’s additional post.The Uttar Pradesh government also transferred some senior officers. In late night development, the state government on Saturday released the transfer list of the IAS officers.Gorakhpur’s District Magistrate (DM) Krishna Karunesh has been given the additional charge of Divisional Commissioner.Health Secretary Ravindra Kumar has been made Urban Development Secretary while Ranjan Kumar, who was Urban…

Apart from being reigning ODI World Cup winners, Australia are also the current holders of the T20 World Cup and won a gold medal in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games in 2022. That stood for little when England defeated them in second and third T20Is to win the series and make the multi-series scoreline 6-4.”Australia will be stunned by back-to-back losses. They haven’t felt that for a very long time. I see this England scrapping, and that is something that Australia usually do so well. England have definitely shown that there has been a shift (between the sides),” said Alex on…

Taking to Twitter, the premier condemned the PTI chief, saying he has been “badly exposed”.”Imran Khan continues to engage in a vile, sinister and malicious campaign against COAS General Syed Asim Munir. His trick of using proxies to threaten the Army Chief of an assassination attempt has been badly exposed,” he wrote on the microblogging site, Geo News reported.Prime Minister Sharif said: “The former prime minister was desperately working to coerce his way back into power after failure in a methodically planned attack on the state symbols.”He said that the PTI chief fails to realise that “the time of his…

Stalin said that the collective goal of the opposition parties during the recent meeting at Patna was to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.He said that the BJP led Union government has not fulfilled its poll promises since coming to power in 2014.Stalin said that the DMK government was implementing schemes such as free bus travel for women, free breakfast schemes in schools which were promises made during elections.“We are implementing our promises but has the Prime Minister been able to do justice to the promises he has made? He said he will retrieve the black money…

On Saturday, several reports surfaced about the polling officials being heckled and assaulted in different pockets of the state especially in those places where the poll- related clashes and violence was rampant.Many of the polling officers and polling were seen totally breaking down in tears in front of the camera, some were hospitalised with injuries and some were in utter trauma even hours after the polling time was over after witnessing the unprecedented violence unleashed in front of their eyes.Many of these affected polling officials and staff, some of them being school teachers, said in front of camera that they…

London, July 9 (IANS) More than 40 per cent of UK universities are investigating students for using AI chatbots like ChatGPT to cheat in their examinations, a report has said.According to The Tab, about 48 institutions have investigated at least one student since December 2022 for using ChatGPT in their assessments.At least 377 students have been investigated for using AI chatbots in a university-assigned piece of work and 146 have been found guilty, with dozens more pending.The number was highest at the University of Kent, where 47 students were examined for using ChatGPT or another AI chatbot.Moreover, the report suggested…

According to the PWD department officials, it is likely to be opened at around 3 p.m.On Saturday too, waterlogging was reported from the tunnel.Since the opening of the tunnel in June, water leakage has been reported many times. The PWD officials said that the water leakage problem was solved, but rain may continue to cause waterlogging.This tunnel has been made to facilitate the movement of dignitaries during the G-20 Summit. The tunnel provides direct access to the Pragati Maidan convention centre where the event will be held.The initial downpour of monsoon rain wreaked havoc in both residential and commercial areas…

The city previously recorded the highest-ever rainfall of 262 mm on July 18, 2000.After continuous rain, the authorities opened floodgates of the man-made Sukhna Lake as the water level reached 1,162.54 ft. The Sukhna Choe carries the excess water of the lake to the Ghaggar river.With the water release, there was flood-like situation in the low-lying areas of Baltana and Zirakpur towns.The police have advised the public to avoid the road from Kishangarh village towards Sukhna Lake and Shastri Nagar in Manimajra owing to waterlogging.Several low-lying areas of Chandigarh were waterlogged with underpasses submerged. A large number of residents reported…