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| Pakistan yesterday said it will allow convicted Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav to meet his wife on humanitarian grounds. The move comes days after Pakistan welcomed a US offer of mediation in easing tensions with India. “The Government of Pakistan has decided to arrange a meeting of Commander Kulbhushan Jhadav with his wife, in Pakistan, purely on humanitarian grounds,” Foreign Office spokesperson Mohammad Faisal said in a statement. Read |
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| The GST Council yesterday reduced the tax rates on all restaurants, other than those in high-end hotels, from 18% to 5%. At the same time, it did away with the benefit of input tax credit for restaurants with an annual revenue of Rs 1 crore or more as they were not passing on the benefit of lower tax incidence to consumers. While the cut in the levy was welcomed by restaurateurs, they wanted the benefit of input tax credit to stay. |
| The SC yesterday axed an order passed by a bench headed by Justice Chelameswar and stated that the CJI along is the ‘master of the roster’. A two-judge bench led by Justice J Chelameswar had passed an order on Thursday to set up a constitution bench to hear a plea for an SIT probe into graft allegations involving a retired Orissa high court judge. The Constitution Bench annulled this order and said that CJI alone can assign cases to different benches and decide the composition of benches. |
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| Ace shuttler Kidambi Srikanth has pulled out of the China Open Super Series Premier beginning in Fuzhou on November 14. It is learnt that Srikanth sustained a leg injury during the Senior National Badminton Championships which concluded in Nagpur on November 8. Srikanth has been playing continuously since October 18. He won two back-to-back titles – Denmark Open and French Open – before losing to HS Prannoy in the men’s final in Nagpur on Wednesday. |
| The Union Cabinet yesterday cleared a proposal for the creation of a National Testing Agency. The agency will relieve the CBSE, the AICTE and other agencies of the responsibility of conducting entrance examinations. The agency’s aim is to bring high reliability, standardised difficulty level for assessing the aptitude, intelligence and problem solving abilities of students. |
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