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The week’s most consequential sentence was about a power the State is giving up. On 8 October the 57th GST Council, chaired by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, recommended omitting section 69 of the Central GST Act, the power of arrest, raising the prosecution threshold five-fold to ₹5 crore of tax, and sanctioning 90% of export and inverted-duty refunds automatic...

New Delhi, 10 October Lighthouse tourism in India has risen from about 4 lakh visitors in 2014 to 18.63 lakh in 2024–25, and 75 lighthouses have been developed as tourism destinations to preserve their historical and architectural significance, a government factsheet said on Saturday.

With a coastline stretching over 11,000 km and 205 lighthouses, Ind...

New Delhi, 10 October: Former Indian cricketer Robin Singh said Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli will be big assets to the Indian team in the ODI World Cup 2027 in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Rohit and Virat have been in good form in recent ODIs, with the former scoring two centuries and a 92 in his last five innings, and Kohli hitting one hundred and two fifty-pl...

Mumbai, 10 October: Zimbabwe is in talks with NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL) to licence the technology behind the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) as a shared domestic rail for real‑time payments, a new report has said.

Such a domestic rail would enable banks, mobile-money operators and fintechs to clear transfers in real time on one public layer, the report f...

NEW DELHI, 10 October Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that defence exports in 2025-26 reached a record ₹38,424 crore, more than 60% above the previous year.

At a glance

Defence exports 2025-26: ₹38,424 crore (Ministry of Defence, 9 October 2026)
Defence exports 2024-25: ₹23,622 crore — private ₹15,233 crore, DPSUs ₹8,389 crore (Ministry of De...