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trust and reliability make the foundation of the country's ties. His comments at the NDTV World Summit came amid deepening chill in India's ties with Canada as New Delhi recalled six of its diplomats including the high commissioner, and expelled as many Canadian envoys. In his address, Modi made no direct reference to the incidents involving Canada. The bilateral ties have soured over Canada's allegations of India's hand in the killing of a radical Khalistani activist, a Canadian citizen. India has denied the charge and asserted that Canada had been unable to provide any evidence to back its claim.

Immigrants, as well as those who work closely with them, say both sides’ efforts to crack down on the border have clouded the larger immigration issue in ways often too nuanced to break down cleanly along ideological lines

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rate rationalisation, has suggested changes in rates of multiple goods, as well as moving of shoes and watches priced above a certain threshold to the 28% tax bracket, from 18% now. The suggestion to introduce a price-based determination for GST could push more premium products to the 28% slab, according to experts. The group of ministers will meet again next month before finalising its report. The GST Council will take a final decision on any changes to the tax rate. A separate group — looking into taxation of insurance products — has favoured exempting health insurance products for senior citizens and reducing tax to 5%, from 18% now, on products providing health cover up to Rs 5 lakh, sans any input tax credit.

term life insurance premiums, and premium paid by senior citizens for health cover is likely to be exempted from tax, an official said on Saturday. The GoM to decide on the GST rate on life and health insurance met on Saturday and decided to exempt GST on premiums paid for health insurance with coverage of Rs 5 lakh for individuals other than senior citizens. The final decision in this regard will be taken by the GST Council Officials premiums paid for health insurance coverage of above Rs 5 lakh will continue to attract 18 per cent GST.

Netanyahu’s private residence in Caesarea was hit by a drone launched from Lebanon. The Israeli military confirmed the incident, stating that the drone “hit a structure” near the prime minister’s home, according to AFP. Israeli media outlet Channel 12 reported that a senior government official confirmed Iran’s involvement in the attack. Netanyahu’s office released a statement assuring that the prime minister and his wife, Sara, were not at home during the attack, and no injuries were reported. «There were no injuries,» the statement emphasized. The attack marks a significant escalation in hostilities along Israel’s northern border, with Hezbollah suspected of orchestrating the strike. Two additional drones fired from Lebanon were intercepted by Israel’s air defense system, preventing further damage. Sirens blared across several northern Israeli cities, including Haifa Bay, Kfar HaMaccabi, Kiryat Yam, and Kiryat Atta, warning of incoming rocket fire from Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported.

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Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the Khalistani separatist and Indian-origin citizen of the US and Canada, is in the spotlight after US this week named Vikash Yadav, a former Indian intelligence officer once associated with the Research and Analysis Wing, or R&AW — as the central figure in a failed plot to kill him. According to a wanted poster by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Vikas Yadav is the second Indian to be named in this controversy. The US Justice Department has charged Vikash Yadav with murder-for-hire and money laundering. According to reports, the plot allegedly began in May 2023, when Vikash Yadav then reportedly an employee of the Indian government, allegedly collaborating with individuals in India and overseas to execute the assassination of Gurpatwant Singh Pannun.

India had at least 26 extradition requests pending with Canada, the South Asian nation’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, amid a diplomatic row between the two countries.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. If you haven't specifically declared that you don't want to donate your eyes after you pass away, the government wants to presume that you have consented to your corneas being harvested. A growing shortage of corneas and an ever-expanding waiting list of patients have prompted the health ministry to explore presumed consent for cornea donation.

Guwahati: The dilemma of cut of date continued to linger in Assam for several decades, while the Supreme court on Thursday upheld validity of Section 6A of Citizenship Act which conferred citizenship benefits to persons from Bangladesh who settled in Assam and had entered India between January 1966 and March 25, 1971, there are documents and recommendations which stipulates 1951 as the cut of date for identification of foreigners. The All Assam Students Union (AASU), which spearheaded a six-year-long agitation against illegal immigrants in Assam in 1979-85, welcomed the Supreme Court judgment upholding the validity of Section 6A of Citizenship Act. AASU's chief adviser Samujjal Bhattacharjya said with its order on Section 6A of Citizenship Act 1955, the Supreme Court has given its stamp of approval to the Assam Accord under which all those who had entered Assam illegally must be detected and deported from the country. «We wholeheartedly welcome the Supreme Court verdict. It is a historic verdict. It has established that the Assam agitation was undertaken with genuine reasons and all provisions of the Assam Accord are now legally validated by the apex court.”

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday announced a 5-10 per cent water cut across Mumbai from October 17 to October 18 citing a glitch in a valve on a pipeline in Thane district. A BMC release said that a 900-mm valve of the Vaitarna pipeline at Tarali in the neighbouring district has malfunctioned, necessitating the partial shutdown of the water supply system. It is expected to be fixed in about 48 hours, said the civic body. «Consequently, there has been a 5 per cent to 10 per cent reduction in the supply to the Bhandup Water Treatment Plant, which supplies water to Greater Mumbai,» the release said, justifying the water cut in the city from Thursday to Friday. Water to Mumbai city and suburbs is primarily sourced from the Vaitarna dam.

The U.S. retirement system doesn't get high marks relative to other nations.

Italy’s far-right government has approved a budget for next year of about 30 billion euros, or $33 billion, which officials say will be partly funded by a levy on Italian banks and insurers

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US State Department has announced that an Indian investigation team would travel to Washington DC on October 15 to investigate a plot to kill a US citizen in New York. An Indian enquiry committee is set to visit the United States on Tuesday to investigate the involvement of an Indian government official in a foiled plot to assassinate a US national, the US Department of State said. According to the State Department statement, an Indian enquiry committee «is actively investigating the individual» and that India had informed the US it was looking in to «other linkages of the former government employee.»

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sentenced in Michigan in the fall of 2021 for using shell companies to illegally export sensitive manufacturing equipment to Iran, where they were born.They then returned to Ontario, where they had lived prior to their arrests, and applied to change their names to Ameen and Aurash Cohen. The province granted their requests in April 2022.At the time they altered their identities, they were still serving out part of their sentences — a one-year period of supervised release, a form of parole, government records show.Using his new name, Arash Yousefijam, 36, became a registered dentist and went to work in Ottawa as Dr.

Nearly a dozen officers have been injured in the French Caribbean island of Martinique during a fresh round of violent protests over the high cost of living

Delhi High Court on Wednesday granted BJP leader Subramanian Swamy time to file a copy of petition pending before the Allahabad High Court on the issue of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's citizenship. The court was informed by Swamy that he had obtained the copy of the petition and the prayers in that matter are different from that of his pleadings. A bench of Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela asked the petitioner to file the documents in electronic form in compliance with its last order and listed his plea for further hearing on November 6. The bench was hearing a plea by Swamy seeking directions to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide his representation seeking cancellation of Rahul Gandhi's Indian citizenship.