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Mr Gupta said that exports should be out rightly kept out of the purview of GST as paying the tax first and getting refund is cumbersome and is affecting exports.

US challenges Indian export subsidy scheme at World Trade Organisation

'These export subsidy programmes harm American workers by creating an uneven playing field on which they must compete,'...

15 March 2018 9:18 AM IST

Pakistan and India flag (Representational image)

Pakistan major source of terrorism all over world, says India to UN

India expressed its concerns that country like Pak, which protected Osama Bin Laden and sheltered Mullah Omar,...

15 March 2018 8:36 AM IST

Stephen Hawking passes away at 76 (Photo: AFP)

Stephen Hawking left a blackhole in our cosmos

The young scientific community bids a last farewell to Stephen Hawking, the iconic physicist with a brilliant mind and a...

15 March 2018 5:36 AM IST

Stephen Hawking

Stephen Hawking dies at 76, world in mourning

As a scientist he earned comparisons with Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton.

15 March 2018 1:47 AM IST

President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet in Washington. (Photo: AP)

Koreas on the path to d©tente... But will Trump & Kim derail it?

It would be reasonable to hope that North-South summit would be held in April with tangible outcomes for inter-Korean...

15 March 2018 1:11 AM IST

British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives for an EU summit at the Europa building in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017. (Photo: AP)

First in 30 years: UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning

Theresa May also said that UK is suspending high-level diplomatic contact with Russia over spy poisoning.

14 March 2018 7:02 PM IST

61-year-old Gina Haspel would become the first female head of the CIA. Shes described by colleagues as a seasoned veteran with 30-plus years of intelligence experience who would lead the agency with integrity. (Photo: AP)

Trump nominates spymaster' torture expert Haspel as CIA director

Human rights advocates said they opposed Haspel's promotion to the helm of the CIA.

14 March 2018 6:10 PM IST

Ergievas ex-boyfriend who had decided to pay her a visit made sexual advances and upon being refused flew into a jealous rage and shot her in the head. (Representational Image)

Man shoots woman dead, buries severed head, after she refused sex'

Her severed head was later discovered buried, stuffed in a bag with some of her jewellery.'

14 March 2018 5:42 PM IST

The BRI, a multi-billion-dollar initiative launched by Xi Jinping when he came to power in 2013, has become a major sticking point in the bilateral ties. (Photo: File)

Xi Jinping's pet' BRI poses a major challenge' to Indo-China ties

India had boycotted 2017's Belt and Road Forum organised by China.

14 March 2018 5:05 PM IST

International attention has been focused in recent weeks mainly on the plight of civilians in eastern Ghouta, where the United Nations believes 400,000 people have been trapped under punishing bombardment, deprived of food and medicine. (Photo: Representational/ AFP)

After surviving massacre, food medicine shortage, injured leave E...

Women carrying infants, men hobbling on crutches and an old man in a wheelchair waited at a school nearby.

14 March 2018 4:10 PM IST

Congressman Mike Pompeo. (Photo: AP)

Trump nominates Pompeo to replace Tillerson for tougher' Pak policy

Week's before Trump announced his decision on Pakistan through a tweet on the wee hours of January 1, Mike Pompeo had...

14 March 2018 3:36 PM IST

German Chancellor and candidate of the Christian Democratic Union for the upcoming election Angela Merkel delivers a speech in Dortmund. (Photo: AP)

Angela Merkel elected as German Chancellor for fourth time

Lawmakers voted 364-315 on Wednesday to re-elect Merkel, who ran unopposed. There were nine abstentions.

14 March 2018 2:52 PM IST