Ahead of the GST Council meeting, Congress leader and Punjab Finance Minister Manpreet Badal has written to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman raising several concerns and seeking timely and comprehensive action on the GST. In his five-page letter to the finance minister, he said even though the GST Council is meeting after eight months, the agenda for it is mundane and does not deal with substantive issues that have been raised in the past. The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meeting is scheduled on May 28. Badal also said that bureaucratic decisions are setting dangerous precedents of subverting the process of law and stressed that the GST Council is a sum total of the Central and State legislatures for the purpose of GST and cannot be short circuited in important decisions.
India News: NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that "countless" lives have been lost during the COVID-19 second wave due to the C.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala has asked Twitter to take action against 11 Union ministers
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday wrote to Twitter and urged it to add the manipulated media tag to the tweets of 11 Union ministers for allegedly spreading false and malicious propaganda against the party.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala wrote the letter to Twitter s Lead for Legal, Policy and Trust and Safety Vijaya Gadde and its Deputy General Counsel and Vice President (Legal) Jim Baker, seeking stern action against 11 union ministers for allegedly spreading false and forged documents.
He was referring to the alleged toolkit document being shared by several BJP leaders and ministers with claims that it was created by the Congress to attack the Centre over the Covid crisis.
Kristen Clarke is the first Senate-confirmed woman of color to lead the Justice Dept.’s civil rights division.
Kristen Clarke spoke at the announcement of her nomination for attorney general for the civil rights division in Wilmington in January. Ms. Clarke’s nomination was confirmed on Tuesday.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
May 25, 2021, 4:11 p.m. ET
The Senate on Tuesday voted to confirm Kristen Clarke to lead the Justice Department’s civil rights division, making her the first woman of color to be confirmed by the Senate to do so.
Her confirmation comes at a time when the Biden administration has vowed to revitalize the division as part of its promise to combat systemic racism, hate crimes and restrictive voter laws.
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COVID vaccination key to curbing pandemic but govt doesn t seem to care: Rahul Gandhi
Asserting that the number of daily inoculations in the country has come down, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said vaccination is the key to controlling the pandemic but the government does not seem to care. He shared a graph showing the decline in the number of vaccine doses administered during April and May (till 20th) and pointed out that the average number of vaccination per day has fallen below the daily production.
Kia Motors rebrands itself as Kia India
South Korean automaker Kia on Monday said it has officially changed its name in the country to Kia India from Kia Motors earlier. The change of name is part of the company s new brand identity which symbolises it becoming an enterprise that invests in and produces more than just vehicles to offer a long range of sustainable mobility solutions, it said.