Daily Newsletter | Sunday, July 02, 2017
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| Consumers not complaining about GST, only a few traders unhappy: FM |
| Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that with the government ensuring reasonable rates consumers were not complaining about the introduction of goods and services tax and wondered why certain traders are upset although buyers bear the burden of indirect taxes. |
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| Mixed bag on 1st day: Shops yet to adapt to GST |
| Fewer footfalls at popular markets but a rush at malls. That’s how the first day of GST played out in the capital as showers drove people to malls with outlets still offering discounts in multiple sales in order to clear stocks. |
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| Cars, iPhone get cheaper; ghee becomes costlier |
| While several companies, ranging from Procter and Gamble, Mahindra, Honda and LG, are still doing their pluses and minuses, others such as Samsung have gone ahead and raised prices of white goods in line with the change in tax rates. |
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| Maoist launches indefinite hunger protest |
| A 37 year-old Maoist on Saturday reportedly launched an indefinite hunger protest demanding the prison department to transfer her from the Special Prison for Vellore to the Central Prison in Coimbatore. |
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| Moto M smartphone gets Android Nougat update in India |
| Lenovo-owned Motorola has started rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat update for its mid-range smartphone – Moto M. The company launched the device in December last year priced at Rs 15,999. Along with the latest Android, the update also brings Duo video … |
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| Team India coach to be selected on July 10: Ganguly |
| The interview to select the next India coach will be held on July 10 in Mumbai, former India captain Sourav Ganguly who is also part of the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) said on Saturday. |
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| BCCI committee mulls Sports Code’s 12-year-1-break tenure |
| The BCCI’s eight-member committee on Saturday deliberated on the issue of three-year ‘cooling off’ period with a couple of alternate suggestions, including a 12-year tenure for office bearers in the proposed draft bill of National Sports Code. |
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| GST Launch: This is what PM Modi said |
| From quoting Albert Einstein’s take on tax system to pulling out shloka from the Rig Veda to giving insights on ophthalmology, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was at his eloquent best at the launch of GST on the midnight of Friday and Saturday. Here are the highlights of his ‘tryst with destiny’ moment |
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