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New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on tuesday in Parliament that the GST Council will meet once every month to review the progress. The GST has impact because till now we were tax non-compliant nation. Now, GST has brought more people under tax net. Though an indirect tax reform, it has brought many in direct tax net.

Food grain has been exempted completely to reduce food price. Earlier there was VAT or other taxes on them, said Mr. Jaitley.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced 2,350 crore rupees for the North East after holding a review meeting with the Chief Ministers of Assam, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur on the flood situation with several North Eastern states in Guwahati on tuesday. DoNER minister Jitendra Singh and Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain also attended the meeting.

Talking to newspersons after the meeting, Assam Water Resource minister Keshab Mahanta said that 250 crore rupees have already been released for Assam for immediate rehabilitation measures. 

New Delhi: Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, has been elected interim Prime Minister of Pakistan on tuesday. He secured 221 votes out of 341 seats in an election process that began in a secret ballot as per the Constitution.

This follows the ouster of Nawaz Sharif  after the Supreme Court disqualified him from holding public office for life in the wake of corruption charges against him and his family members.

New Delhi: Applauding Prime Minister Narenda Modi by shedding all inhibitions, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has asserted that Modi is set to return to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha election as no political party or individual has the capability to defeat him.  

Mr Kumar, who had once inspired confidence in the Opposition camp of emerging as a formidable challenger to Mr Modi in the next general election said that there was no doubt over Modi`s return to power as nobody can defeat him.