{"id":72328,"date":"2025-08-16T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-16T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:01:04","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=72328","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 16-8-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Aug 16 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 9 pm: \t \tNATION \t \tDEL47 MEA-UKRAINE-LD SUMMIT<br \/>\n India welcomes Putin-Trump summit on Ukraine conflict; pitches for early return of peace \tNew Delhi: The world wants to see an early end to the conflict in Ukraine, India said on Saturday, welcoming the summit talks between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in Alaska that ended without a ceasefire deal.<br \/>\n\tDEL32 JK-LD CLOUDBURST-OPERATION<br \/>\n Explosives used to blast giant boulders to speed up rescue efforts in cloudburst-hit J-K village \tKishtwar\/Jammu: Explosives were used to blast giant boulders hampering the ongoing rescue and relief operations in the disaster-hit Chisoti village in Jammu and Kashmir&#39;s Kishtwar district on the third day on Saturday, officials said.<br \/>\n\tDEL11 SPACE-SHUKLA<br \/>\n Shubhanshu Shukla to return to India on Sunday, to meet PM Modi \t New Delhi: Astronaut Shubhanshu Shu<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=52708\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. By Asim Kamal<br \/>\n\tDEL16 JK-CLOUDBURST-LD OMAR<br \/>\n People&#39;s anger genuine, rescuers focused on saving those trapped: J-K CM at cloudburst-hit village \tChasoti (J-K): The anger of people seeking information about their kin missing in the aftermath of a cloudburst is quite understandable, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said on Saturday after several locals confronted him in Chasoti and vented their frustration.<br \/>\n\tDEL27 EC-PRESSER<br \/>\n EC to hold press conference on Sunday amid opposition allegations \tNew Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) will hold a press conference on Sunday amid allegations of &#8220;vote theft&#8221; levelled by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and relentless protest by opposition parties over the intensive electoral roll revision in Bihar.<br \/>\n DEL20 WANG-INDIA-VISIT<br \/>\n Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to pay 2-day visit to India from Monday: MEA \t New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay a two-day visit to India beginning Monday to hold border talks w<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=52708\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p> I Periyasamy, saying it was an attempt to divert attention from &#39;vote chori,&#39; a term coined by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over alleged electoral fraud in the 2024 elections that the BJP-led NDA won.<br \/>\n\tBUSINESS \t \tDEL49 BIZ-GST-LD CONGRESS<br \/>\n Govt slams Congress for stand on GST reforms, says it smacks of hypocrisy \tNew Delhi: The government on Saturday lashed out at the opposition Congress for attempting to take credit for the biggest GST reforms, saying the party was not even present in Parliament when the landmark one-nation, one-tax was passed, and its statements now smack of hypocrisy.<br \/>\n\tLEGAL \t \tLGD1 SC-TAX AUTHORITY<br \/>\n Assessee must comply with summons issued by tax authority: SC \tNew Delhi: The Supreme Court has held that an assessee must comply with a summons and furnish a response to a show cause notice when it is issued by the central or the state tax authority.<br \/>\n\tLGD4 SC-PRESIDENTIAL REFERENCE-BILLS<br \/>\n Imposing fixed timelines on Guvs, Prez would lead to &#39;constitutio<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/news?id=52708\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTSGSTDated:- 16-8-2025PTINew Delhi, Aug 16 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 9 pm: \t \tNATION \t \tDEL47 MEA-UKRAINE-LD SUMMIT<br \/>\n India welcomes Putin-Trump summit on Ukraine conflict; pitches for early return of peace \tNew Delhi: The world wan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}