The gross GST revenue collected in the month of March 2023 is Rs. 1,60,122 crore of which CGST is Rs. 29,546 crore, SGST is Rs. 37,314 crore, IGST is Rs. 82,907 crore (including Rs. 42,503 crore collected on import of goods) and cess is Rs. 10,355 crore(including Rs. 960 crore collected on import of goods). It is for the fourth time, in the current financial year that the gross GST collection has crossed Rs. 1.5 lakh crore mark registering second highest collection since implementation of GST. This month witnessed the highest IGST collection ever. The government has settled Rs. 33,408…
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In a late night development, Ministry of Finance issued the Gazette Notifications for Mahila Samman Savings Certificates, 2023 and has been made available in 1.59 lakh post offices with immediate effect. The scheme was announced in the 2023-24 Budget by the Union Finance Minister to commemorate ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ and is a significant step towards financial inclusion and empowerment of the women, including the girls. The two year tenure scheme offers an attractive and fixed interest of 7.5 per cent interest compounded quarterly with flexible investment and partial withdrawal options with a maximum ceiling of Rs 2 lakh. The…
Prime Minister Narendra called upon the three Services to stay ready to deal with these new and emerging threats, emphasising that all steps are being taken to equip the Armed Forces with necessary weapons and technologies. He reviewed the security situation and operational readiness of the Armed Forces during the valedictory session of Combined Commanders’ Conference 2023 in Bhopal on Saturday. He was briefed by Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan about the various discussions conducted during this year’s conference. Modi complimented the Armed Forces for their role in Nation Building and providing Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR)…
By Nava J Thakuria Prateek Hajela, IAS, who faces a number of FIRs in Assam for alleged involvement in National Register of Citizens (NRC) updation scam in the State, has been relinquished by Madhya Pradesh government from the social justice department (also the chief executive officer in Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis) in the central Indian State. Hajela, a 1995-batch IAS officer, who was sent to Madhya Pradesh in 2019 following an order of the Supreme Court (assuming threats to his life over NRC Assam fraudulent issues), is now bound to return back to his…
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal launched the Foreign Trade Policy 2023 stating India’s overall exports, including services and merchandise exports, has already crossed US$ 750 Billion and is expected to cross US$ 760 Billion this year. The target, indeed, is super-size: Indian exports to scale $2 trillion in value by the end of the decade. He mentioned that in the next 5 months during India’s G20 presidency there should be a massive concentrated outreach with the world both sector-wise and country-wise. The Key Approach to the policy is based on these 4 pillars: (i) Incentive to Remission, …
The Union Minister for Jal Shakti, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat lauded the achievement of a fivefold increase in ODF Plus villages in India under the Swachh Bharat Mission – Grameen, Phase – II, in just one year, with more than 40 percent of India’s inhabited villages having declared themselves ODF Plus. The Union Minister, addressing the media, asserted that ODF Plus villages increased from 46,121 villages (7.4%) in March 2022 to 2,38,973 villages (40.21%) in March 2023. He further added “Out of these 2,38,973 ODF Plus villages, 1,60,709 are in the ODF Plus Aspiring category, 27,409 in the ODF Plus Rising…
The Gujarat High Court on Friday set aside the seven-year-old order of the Central Information Commission (CIC), asking the Gujarat University to provide information on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Allowing the Gujarat University’s appeal against the CIC order, Justice Biren Vaishnav also imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on Kejriwal and asked him to deposit the amount within four weeks to the Gujarat State Legal Services Authority (GSLSA). “Accordingly, the petition is allowed and the impugned order (of CIC), dated April 29, 2016, is quashed and set aside” said Justice Vaishnav in his…
By Nava J Thakuria Geneva-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses concern over the arrest of Evan Geshkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, by the Russian security agency and demands his immediate release as he was only doing his assigned job with the accreditation from the Russian foreign ministry. The American reporter was detained by the Federal Security Service from Yekaterinburg locality (around 1,800 kilometres east of Moscow). while he was trying to obtain classified information. The FSB alleged that Gershkovich (31) was acting on behalf of the US government to collect information about…
On the run for over 10 days, ‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh is said to have fled yet again in a Swift car after an alleged dramatic chase by police on the Phagwara-Hoshiarpur road. Police said they were looking for a white Swift car with the number ‘8168’. Drones have been deployed to trace him. Also, an alert has been sounded in the border areas of Himachal Pradesh. Amritpal on Wednesday released a video, calling on the “Sikh sangat” to come together if they want to “save” Punjab. In the video, he said he is not in police custody. “I…
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur met the Oscar winning team behind Elephant Whisperers at his residence. He met with Ms Kartiki Gonsalves, Director and Cinematographer, Ms Guneet Moonga, Producer and Ms Monica from Netflix. During the interaction Thakur said that the power of India’s storytelling is unmatched!. Expressing his pleasure at one such story winning the Oscar, he said that “Elephant Whisperers is a ‘trunk‘ full of heartwarming, socially relevant and cinematographically enthralling masterpiece! I am delighted to meet Guneet and Kartiki and learn about their amazing journey while making this spellbinding documentary.” He said that “the…