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New Delhi (UNI)The GST Council on Friday decidedto continue concessional rate on cer-tain drugs for treating Covid till year-end and lower duty on key anti-Can-cer drug Keytruda to 5 per cent whiledeferring plans to include diesel andpetrol in the GST ambit. The all-pow-erful Council also decided to reduceGST rate to 5 per cent on Covid relat-ed drugs such as Itolizumab, Favipi-ravir and 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose.

While GST rates on some items

were reduced, several items saw anincrease in tax while a few beingadded to the tax net.

Food-delivery apps such asZomato and Swiggy would not be li-able to pay GST as their platformswould be treated as restaurants.Briefing the media after the day-longGST Council meeting held here, Fi-nance Minister Nirmala Sitharamansaid that the issue of petroleum prod-ucts being in GST ambit was broughtfor consideration but after due deliber-ation it was decided that it is not ap-propriate to do so at this stage.

Inclusion of diesel and petrol inGST would allow industry to claiminput tax credit (ITC) thus loweringtheir cost. Consumers are also ex-pected to gain from it provided ratesare fixed accordingly and there isrevenue buoyancy in the economy.

Given that states have seen theirrevenue getting impacted by Covidwhile healthcare costs have gone up,they have opposed any move tobring the auto fuels in GST regime.

Plan to include petrol, dieselin GST net off the table

New Delhi (UNI)India achieved a mammoth mile-stone of record 2 crore doses ofCOVID-19 vaccine administered in asingle-day till 5:08 pm on Friday, justtwo hours after breaking its previousrecord single-day vaccination, ac-cording to the government data.

The country had administered1.38 crore COVID-19 jabs till 2:59pm, shattering its previous record of1.33 crore vaccinations in a day thatit achieved on August 31. This is thefirst time that the country has cross-es the magic figure of 2 crore vacci-nation happened in a day.

Also, this is the fourth time thatIndia have crossed the 1 crore vacci-nation in a single day. The rare feat ofover 1 crore jabs was earlier achievedon September 6, August 31 and Au-gust 27 as well.

The country had administered1.13 crore vaccines doses on Sep-tember 6 and 1.03 crore on August27. The sources at Union Health

Ministry told UNI that the Centre ex-pects to close the day with 2.5 croredoses administered.

Dr RS Sharma, CEO, NationalHealth Authority informed that thepace of vaccination today is 42,000jabs per minute. “We are currentlyclocking over 42,000vaccinations/minute or 700/sec-ond,” he said. The Bharatiya JanataParty (BJP) has sought to make PrimeMinister Narendra Modi’s 71’st birth-day on Friday historic by administer-ing a record Covid-19 vaccine doses.

India administers record over 2 croredoses of Covid vaccine in a single-day

Special CorrespondentJabalpur: Renowned astrologerPt. Narayan Shankar NathuramVyas has said in his predictionthat after the upcoming elec-tions, once again the BJP will besuccessful in forming its gov-ernment in Uttar Pradesh.

He said - BJP is goingthrough the moon’s ma-hadasha, and the moon is mak-ing Neech Bhang Raj Yoga.

In Uttar Pradesh, Chief Min-ister Yogi Adityanath was swornin on Ashtami Tithi, which ishalf bright and the Moon of hisgovernment is making NeechBhang Raj Yoga. This yoga be-comes even more powerfulwhen both BJP and Chief Minis-ter Yogi make Moon Neechab-hang Raj Yoga.

In the horoscope of Yogi

Government, the ninth houseof Sun, Mercury and Venusmakes this yoga especially aus-picious and powerful.

Wherever elections will beheld next including UttarPradesh, BJP will deny the tick-

ets to its present MLAs in largenumbers and give tickets to thenew people with clean image.

In this way, under the leader-ship of Yogi Adityanath, onceagain the BJP will be able toform the government in UttarPradesh.

In Gujarat too, BJP will formits government despite toughstruggles.

Due to the Moon in the sixthhouse and Saturn and Marstransiting Capricorn in thehoroscope of the BJP, the BJPwill have to face tough chal-lenges in every state electionahead.

But in the horoscope of BJP,Malavya Yoga, Moon’s debilitat-ing Raja Yoga and Gajakesari Yo-ga are still giving the party thepossibility of more progress.

Yoga in Kundli, BJP govt willbe formed again in UP

Dushanbe/New Delhi (UNI)The global community must thinkcarefully and hold consultationswith each other before giving accep-tance to the new regime inAfghanistan which is not inclusiveand has been put in place withoutnegotiations, Prime Minister Naren-dra Modi said on Friday, giving In-dia’s first official reaction to the Tal-iban regime in Kabul.

In his address to the SCO-CSTOOutreach summit on Afghanistan,Prime Minister Modi also said that ifviolence and extremism continues inAfghanistan it will lead to a spike inradicalism and extremism across theworld and encourage terrorist or-ganisations across the world to re-sort to extremism and violence tocapture power.

“The developments in Afghanistanwill have an impact on neighbouringcountries like India and for that it isvery important to have regional focusand regional cooperation on the is-sue,” PM Modi said.

He cited four points to focus on:"First is that the new dispensation inAfghanistan is not inclusive and has

been put in place without negotia-tions. This poses questions on its ac-ceptability. The representation ofwomen and minorities and everysection of Afghan society in the gov-ernment is very important.

"And that is why it is very impor-tant that the global community thinkcarefully and hold consultations be-fore giving acceptance to the newregime in Kabul. On this, India sup-

ports the central role of the UN," PMModi said.

The second issue is: If violenceand extremism continues inAfghanistan then it will lead to aspike in radicalism and extremismacross the world. Other terrorist or-ganisation will also get encouragedto resort to extremism and violenceto capture power, he said.

“All our countries have been af-

fected by terrorism, and that’s whywe should together decide thatAfghanistan’s territory must not beallowed for terrorist activities in an-other nation.”

He said that SCO member nationsshould draw up strict and clearnorms on this. Later, these normscan become a template for globalanti-terror cooperation

“These norms should be based onzero tolerance for terrorism,” hestressed. “This should include a codeof conduct to put a stop to cross-bor-der terrorist activities and terror fi-nancing, as well as for their enforce-ment,” he said.

The third point, was that the de-velopments in Afghanistan can leadto large scale increase in traffickingof drugs, illegal weapons and hu-mans.

“Huge amount of sophisticatedweapons have been left behind inAfghanistan, and due to this thethreat of instability in the entire re-gion will remain,” he said, referringto the weapons left behind by the USin Afghanistan after they exited thecountry on August 30.

International community must think carefullyConsult before giving acceptance to new Kabul regime: PM Modi

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Indore (UNI)Union Minister for RoadTransport and Highways NitinGadkari has said today thatIndore has found a way tomove towards a cleaner, bet-ter future by transforming itswaste to wealth. Indore hasthe potential that if it takes apledge, it can set a new exam-ple in climate protection.

Gadkari was addressingthe inauguration-foundation-laying program of road pro-

jects at the Brilliant Conven-tion here. Chief Minister Shiv-raj Singh Chouhan presidedover the program.

Gadkari said that the re-gion of Malwa is known to itsfarmers. If tractors start oper-ating from CNG here, not onlyfarmers will get financial reliefbut the pace of developmentof the state will also double.

He asked Chief MinisterChouhan to arrange for CNG-run tractor. The CNG pumpwill be provided by the centralgovernment to you. This willbe a very good initiative in thefield of climate protection inMadhya Pradesh.

Gadkari said that the waythe transformation of waste towealth is taking place in In-dore.

Amit Shah’s MP visititineraryJabalpur: Union Home Affairs Minis-ter Amit Shah will be on a day’s visithere on Saturday and participate invarious programmes marking themartyrdom anniversary of Gond-wana ruler Shankar Shah and his sonRaghunath Shah.

A Border Security Force planeshall convey Mr Shah to the localDumna Airport at 1130 hrs. He willoffer floral tributes to the statues ofthe tribal martyrs at MalgodamChowk and then proceed to GarrisonGround at 1210 hrs for attending amemorial function as part of Azadika Amrit Mahotsav.

The Minister shall launch theUjjwala 2.0 cooking gas connectionScheme at 1445 hrs at the VeterinaryCollege Ground. The next function isscheduled for 1630 hrs at the Martyrs’Memorial in Golbazar. Mr Shah willvisit the Narsingh Temple at 1810 hrsand the Dayoday Teerth at 1835 hrs.

IT raids Anil Deshmukh’shouses in Mumbai, Puneand NagpurPune: The Income Tax Departmenton Friday carried out searches at dif-ferent locations linked to former Ma-harashtra home minister Anil Desh-mukh for alleged tax evasion.

According to official sources, theraids were simultaneously underwayin Nagpur, Pune and Mumbai.

The multiple agencies, includingthe Central Bureau of Investigationand the Enforcement Directorate areprobing NCP leader Deshmukh oncharges of corruption and moneylaundering, respectively.

In its recently filed chargesheetagainst the two arrested aides ofDeshmukh, the ED has claimed thatDeshmukh took bribe to the tune ofRs 4.70 crores from orchestra barowners and managers in Mumbai for‘smooth functioning’ of the bars.

The said bribe was then routed toa family-owned trust, Sai ShikshanSanstha Trust, with the help of Delhi-based hawala operators by his son,Hrishikesh, mentioned the prosecu-tion complaint. It further adds thatDeshmukh allegedly floated 18 shellcompanies to divert unaccountedfunds. The I-T probe will be concen-trating on the unaccounted transac-tions, sources added.

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Witnessing a single day rise in newcases by 12.5 per cent, Indialogged 34,403 new cases and 320deaths due to the Covid-19 in thelast 24 hours, the union healthministry said on Friday.

The latest addition has pushedthe cumulative case tally to3,33,81,728 whereas the death tollhas climbed to 4,44,248 accordingto the data. The country had re-ported 30,570 cases of Covid-19 onprevious day.

The daily positivity rate of theinfection was recorded at 2.25 percent in the country while the ac-tive cases have remained under3.5 lakh after declining by 3,867cases, as per the health ministry’sbulletin.

The cumulative active caseloadnow stands at 3,39,056.

India reports 34,403 newCovid cases, 320 deaths

Security forces recover4 pistolsSrinagar: Security forces on Fridayrecovered arms and ammunition,including four pistols, during aCordon and Search Operation (CA-SO) in south Kashmir district ofPulwama. Official sources said thatfollowing specific information, ajoint CASO was launched by Spe-cial Operations Group (SOG) ofJ&K police, Army and CRPF in vil-lage Telangam in Pulwama on Fri-day morning. “During the opera-tion, security forces recovered fourpistols, magazines and about 100live rounds,” they said, adding theoperation was going on when thereports last came in.

Under constructionflyover collapsesMumbai: At least 14 people wereinjured after a portion of an under-construction flyover collapsed inthe BKC area of Mumbai suburb inthe early hours of Friday. Accordingto fire bridge sources, the Gurder ofSELR flyover bridge connectingBandra Kurla Complex (BKC) mainroad and Santacruz-Chembur LinkRoad collapsed at around 0445hours. The Bridge is under con-struction bridge of MMRDADeputy Commissioner of Police(Zone 8) Deputy Commissioner ofPolice (Zone 8) Manjunath Singesaid that all the injured wererushed to V N Desai Hospital andtheir condition is stable.

Crime Branch arrestsone sharp shooterNew Delhi: A 21-year- old gangstercarrying a reward of Rs one lakhand wanted in a murder case wasarrested from Sriniwaspuri by theCrime Branch of Delhi Police onFriday. The accused, identified asGovind Singh Thapa alias Dannyoriginally hails from Kathmandu inNepal. He came into contact withgangster Shahrukh and joined himin committing crime and became asharp shooter of gangster Sharukhwho is running the Hashim Babagang, after the arrest of Hashim Ba-ba Alok Kumar, Joint Commission-er of Police, Crime Delhi, said.

Criminal case againstCong MLAIndore: A case was registered hereon Friday against Congress leaderand former state minister Jitu Pat-wari – who represents Rau in theMadhya Pradesh Assembly – oncharges of obstructing governmentwork and threatening a public ser-vant, police said. The accused al-legedly targeted the Municipal Cor-poration’s Health Officer Uttam Ya-dav on Wednesday in Lakshmi Na-gar during a Corporation pro-gramme aimed at eradication ofdengue and malaria.

Policeman injured inmilitant attackSrinagar: Militants shot at and crit-ically wounded a constable of J&Kpolice in Kulgam district of southKashmir Friday evening, officialsources said. They said militantsfired at a constable from very closerange at main chowk Wanpoh inKulgam this evening. The injuredwas immediately rushed to hospi-tal in a critical condition, they saidadding security forces have cor-doned off entire area and launcheda search operation.

Abhishek Banerjeemoves Delhi HCNew Delhi: All India TrinamoolCongress (AITC) general secretaryAbhishek Banerjee on Fridayknocked on the door of the DelhiHigh Court challenging Enforce-ment Directorate (ED) summonsissued to him and seeking court di-rection to quash the summons is-sued to him on September 10,2021, in connection with coal min-ing scam. Petitioner Banerjee alongwith his wife Rujira Banerjeesought the issuance of direction tothe ED to not summon them toNew Delhi and carry out any fur-ther examination in Kolkata, WestBengal.

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