Daily Newsletter | Friday, March 17, 2017
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| July 1 date with GST looks set as council clears all bills |
| The bills will now have to be cleared by Parliament and state assemblies. “We will try and do that expeditiously,” finance minister Arun Jaitley said after Thursday’s meeting of the council, which has representatives from all states. Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia said a July rollout now looked feasible. |
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| UP decimation could spur a grand alliance of Oppn |
| Top Congress managers told TOI that a grand alliance of SP, BSP and Congress may emerge from the rubble of the UP decimation which has left no party with the “illusion” that it can fight BJP led by PM Narendra Modi alone. |
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| ‘Pak must not meddle in our internal affairs’ |
| Pakistan’s attempts to link the verdict in the Ajmer case to the Samjhauta train blasts case was completely untenable. “We also totally reject the completely untenable link sought to be established by Pakistan with any other matter currently under purview of the Indian courts,” the ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. |
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| Ranchi Test: Smith, Maxwell make India toil |
| India went wicketless in the final session of Day 1 of the Ranchi Test as Australia, on the back of Steven Smith’s 19th Test century, reached 299/4 at stumps, their highest total of the series. |
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| No serious concerns over Kohli’s shoulder injury: BCCI |
| Indian cricket team had a huge sigh of relief after the relevant investigations revealed that there are no serious concerns to captain Virat Kohli’s shoulder injury he suffered during the second session of the first day’s play of the third Test in Ranchi. |
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| GST Council caps cess on demerit goods at 15 per cent |
| The actual cess on demerit goods, which will help create a corpus for compensating states for any loss of revenue from GST implementation in the first five years, may be lower than the cap as the Council has kept a “little” headroom for future exigencies, finance minister Arun Jaitley said. |
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| India’s engineering exports likely to cross $60 billion |
| Union minister for commerce and industry Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said India’s engineering exports are likely to cross $60 billion in fiscal 2016-17 on the back of revival of demand in the US and for select products like iron. |
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| Movie Review: Beauty and the Beast |
| This is a live-action remake of Disney’s classic love story. ‘Beauty lies within’ is what an enchantress expects a vain and arrogant prince (Dan Stevens) to know. |
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