{"id":72332,"date":"2025-08-17T21:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-08-17T21:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:01:04","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=72332","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 17-8-2025<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Following are the stop stories at 9.20 pm: \t \t NATION \t \t DEL122 VP CANDIDATE-LD NDA<br \/>\n NDA picks Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan as vice-president candidate \t New Delhi: Maharashta Governor Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan, a seasoned BJP leader from Tamil Nadu with an RSS background, was on Sunday named the vice-presidential candidate of the ruling National Democratic Alliance.<br \/>\n DEL123 RADHAKRISHNAN-PROFILE<br \/>\n Long-time RSS volunteer, former MP from TN and governor for multiple states is BJP&#39;s choice for VP post \t New Delhi: He became associated with RSS and Jan Sangh in his teens, won Lok Sabha elections twice from Coimbatore in the late 1990s and his supporters call him &#39;Modi of Tamil Nadu&#39;  Maharashtra Governor Chandrapuram Ponnusamy Radhakrishnan is the BJP and NDA&#39;s choice for the Vice President&#39;s post.<br \/>\n DEL104 EC-2NDLD BIHAR<br \/>\n Submit affidavit in 7 days to back &#39;vote chori&#39; claims: CEC Gyanesh Kuma<\/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=52738\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p> Narendra Modi during his two-day visit to India beginning Monday, according to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).<br \/>\n DEL20 JK-RAINS-3RDLD KATHUA<br \/>\n Cloudburst, landslide in J-K\u2019s Kathua; seven killed \tJammu: Seven members of four families, including five children, were killed in two separate incidents of cloudburst and landslide in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir early Sunday, officials said.<br \/>\n DEL125 CONG-2NDLD EC<br \/>\n EC stands thoroughly exposed for incompetence, partisanship: Cong \t New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday alleged that the Election Commission stood &#8220;thoroughly exposed&#8221; not only for its &#8220;incompetence&#8221; but also for its &#8220;blatant partisanship&#8221;, soon after the chief election commissioner defended the SIR in Bihar and rejected as &#8220;baseless&#8221; the opposition party&#39;s allegations of &#8220;vote theft&#8221;.<br \/>\n DEL118 EC-BIHAR-MULTIPLE VOTERS<br \/>\n Persons holding multiple voter IDs due to migration, other issues: CEC Gyanesh Kumar \t New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh<\/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=52738\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ension Road-II worth nearly Rs 11,000 crore to reduce traffic congestion in the national capital and its surrounding areas.<br \/>\n DEL44 ONOE-KHANNA<br \/>\n Ex-CJI Khanna to ONOE committee: Constitutional validity does not mean desirability \t New Delhi: Former chief justice of India Sanjeev Khanna has told a parliamentary committee scrutinising the simultaneous election bill that the constitutional validity of a proposal in no way amounts to a pronouncement upon the desirability or necessity of its provisions.<br \/>\n BUSINESS \t \t DEL16 BIZ-GST<br \/>\n Next-Gen GST step towards a single tax slab GST \tNew Delhi: The proposed \u2018Next Gen GST\u2019 with sweeping reforms, lower tax rates, and just two slabs, aims to boost the economy amid tariff threats and set the stage for a single tax rate regime by the time India becomes a developed nation, government sources said.<br \/>\n FOREIGN \t \t FGN13 PAK-RAINS<br \/>\n Pak warns of more heavy rains as flash flood death toll hits 327 \t Peshawar: Pakistan\u2019s weather depart<\/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=52738\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTSGSTDated:- 17-8-2025PTINew Delhi, Following are the stop stories at 9.20 pm: \t \t NATION \t \t DEL122 VP CANDIDATE-LD NDA<br \/>\n NDA picks Maharashtra Governor CP Radhakrishnan as vice-president candidate \t New Delhi: Maharashta Governor Chandrapuram<\/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-72332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332","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=72332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}