- Lok Sabha passes GST Constitution Amendment Bill
- The Lok Sabha passed the much-delayed Constitution Amendment Bill to Goods and Service Tax (GST) on Wednesday, paving the way for a new bill on the uniform tax regime, even as the Congress Party staged a walkout in protest.
- The Constitution Amendment Bill to implement GST, originally mooted by the UPA, was passed by 352 votes against 37 after the government rejected the opposition demand of referring it to a standing committee.
- GST, which is proposed to be implemented from April 1, 2016, will subsume excise, service tax, state VAT, entry tax, octroi and other state levies.
- Salman Khan Convicted In 2002 Hit-And-Run Case
- Actor Salman Khan has been convicted for culpable homicide on Wednesday in 2002 hit-and-run case. He has been sentenced for five years.
- He, then applied for bail to the Bombay High Court, which has said he will not be arrested till Friday.
- He is under trial in Rajasthan for shooting an endangered black buck gazelle in 1998. He spent a week in jail in 2006 in Jodhpur before being granted bail. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 7 years.
- World Asthma Day observed in CMCH
- An awareness drive and a continuing medical education (CME) were held at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Tuesday to mark the World Asthma Day.
- The programme was organised by the Paediatric and the Thoracic Departments with the hospital staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students participating in it.
- Narendra Modi set to revive Vajpayee government’s Foreign Investment Implementation Agency project
- The Foreign Investment Implementation Agency, a brainchild of the former Vajpayee government, is set to get a new lease of life under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
- The government wants the FIIA to play a larger role in attracting FDI.
- The agency’s role will be reinvented and expanded to handhold foreign investors and keep tab on sectors that have end-use operational conditions.
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