As of now, the GST has four slabs of 5 per cent, 12 per cent, 18 per cent and 28 per cent. The 5 per cent slab includes essential commodities such as food items, footwear and basic clothing

National Statistical Commission has directed the statistics ministry to look at additional sources of data to cross-verify the apparent 'inconsistencies'in consumer spending patterns

IIT Guwahati, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Hyderabad saw some of the highest student suicides in the past five years

As part of revival efforts, VRS was introduced for the staff of the two telecom firms and December 3 was the last date for submitting the applications

Google CEO Sundar Pichai thanks co-founders for having confidence in him; says he was excited on being part of Alphabet

\"A hotel can't give you the flavour of local life that homestays can,\" says Ankur Varman, AVP - Institutional Equity sales at SBI Capital Markets

The Centre has already banned onion exports and decided to import 1.2 lakh tonnes of onions, besides imposing stock holding limit on traders

India's unemployment rate remains high for the month of November 2019 at 7.48% amid lowest labour participation rate of just 42.37%

National Gallery of Australia had decided to return the items: a pair of door guardians from the 15th century, from Tamil Nadu; and a sculpture of the serpent king, from Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh, made in the sixth to eighth centuries

Cash is still the primary mode to pay bribes, as per the survey

Ashok Leyland share price gained up to 3.28% to Rs 83.40 compared to the previous close of Rs 80.75 on BSE

The new package rates finalised about a month ago are now up on the Ayushman Bharat website. Some private hospitals do not find the rates viable

Auto Slowdown: In lieu of the slowdown in the domestic automobile industry, the worst in the history, HMSI had on November 5 barred some contractual workers from entering the factory premises, which immediately snowballed into a major crisis

This is the first year when the data has been compiled separately for food samples found to be unsafe, substandard and with labelling defects

The government is also facilitating private imports and also relaxed phytosanitary and fumigation norms till December

Formerly known as Catholic Syrian Bank, the private sector bank aims to raise Rs 410 crore by issuing fresh equity shares and offer for sale of shares by existing shareholders

This is largely on the back of a steep fall in the number of mills that are crushing sugarcane in the country. They have reduced to 100 from 310 last year

Authorities later clarified that there was no fire in the cargo holding area, ANI reported. All passengers and crew on the flight were safe

Bigil box office collection: Bigil has hit the Rs 300 crore mark worldwide. So far, Bigil's gross box office collection stood at Rs 208.5 crore in India and the film minted Rs 93 crore in overseas market

Singh said USD 10 billion investment in aerospace and defence goods and services was expected by 2025 which could provide employment to 2-3 million people