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HYDERABAD: Amid stricter visa enforcement and shrinking work opportunities, Indian students in the US are struggling to make ends meet. Official records show that more than 4,700 student visas were revoked in recent months for irregular attendance or unauthorised employment. Workplace inspections in several states have forced students to abandon part-time jobs that once covered…

NAGPUR: Notorious Mumbai don-turned-neta Arun Gawli also called ‘Daddy’ stepped out of Nagpur Central Prison on Wednesday after Supreme Court granted him bail in the 2007 murder case of Sena corporator Kamlakar Jamsandekar. After serving over 17 years in a high-security cell, including nine-and-half years in Nagpur Central Jail, the 76-year-old gangster shared a poignant…

NEW DELHI: The GST Council, headed by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Wednesday agreed to the biggest ever revamp of the eight-year-old indirect tax regime by rolling out a two-rate structure of 5% and 18%, along with a 40% slab for a handful of sin goods and services.The new rates, barring the incidence on…

NEW DELHI: The govt expects businesses to pass on the benefit of lower goods and services tax (GST) to consumers and the states and the Central Board of Indirect Taxes (CBIC) and Customs will engage with industry on the issue. “…last time, industry had passed on the benefits of rate cuts and you would have…

In what the government on Wednesday called a Diwali gift, the GST Council has approved sweeping rate cuts across key sectors. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced that daily-use items like hair oil, shampoo, toothpaste, soap, toothbrushes, and shaving cream will now attract just 5% GST, down from 18%. GST on individual health and life insurance…

US President Donald Trump (AP) A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday ruled in favor of Harvard University, ordering the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in federal research grant funding. US district judge Allison Burroughs determined that the administration’s actions were illegal retaliation against the Ivy League school for…

NEW DELHI: In a positive development days ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Manipur, the Centre, Manipur govt and Kuki-Zo insurgent groups are likely to reach an agreement on Thursday on extending the suspension of operations (SOO) among them. The SOO pact was signed in 2008 and renewed from time to time. However, it…

Harmeet Singh Pathan Majra (File Photo) PATIALA: Punjab Police’s Anti-Gangster Task Force (AGTF) is leading the search for AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who released a video from an undisclosed location on Wednesday, denying any attack on the police team that had gone to arrest him at a relative’s home in Haryana’s Karnal district on…

Relentless rain across Himachal Pradesh, J&K, Punjab, and Haryana has killed at least 500 people this monsoon, with fresh landslides, flash floods, and collapsing houses claiming dozens more lives Tuesday night and Wednesday. Highways are blocked, rivers above danger mark, crops flattened, and thousands stranded as rain continued to pound the region.In Himachal, the toll…

MrBeast sparks frenzy with bold NFL takeover claim in YouTube video before Chargers vs Chiefs game (Image via Getty) MrBeast stars in a new fun video from YouTube. In it, he jokes about buying the NFL and giving each team a spot for YouTube creators. The video sets the stage for an exciting event: YouTube…