{"id":75299,"date":"2026-03-27T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:31:03","slug":"highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=75299","title":{"rendered":"HIGHLIGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTS<BR>GST<BR>Dated:- 27-3-2026<BR>PTI<BR>New Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 5.10 pm: \t\t\t \t \tTOP STORIES  \tDEL34 BIZ-3RDLD PETROL-EXCISE CUT (3.38 PM) \tGovt cuts excise duty on petrol, diesel; slaps windfall tax on fuel exports \tNew Delhi: The government has slashed excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 10 per litre, averting a pump price hike that had become necessary because of soaring global oil prices.<\/p>\n<p> \tFGN34 NEPAL-BALEN-2NDLD OATH (4.56 PM) \tRapper-turned-politician &#39;Balen&#39; sworn in as Nepal&#39;s 47th PM \tKathmandu: Rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah &#39;Balen,&#39; took oath as Nepal&#39;s democratically elected prime minister on Friday, around six months after the K P Sharma Oli-led government was ousted in a Gen-Z protest that shook the nation. By Shirish B Pradhan  \tLGD8 UP-HC-LIVE IN RELATIONSHIP (4.45 PM) \tLive-in relationship between married man, consenting adult woman not a crime: Allahabad HC \tPrayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has said that a mar<\/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=71888\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>ms govt \tNew Delhi: The Congress on Friday alleged that the government&#39;s excise cuts on petrol and diesel were because of assembly elections and pointed out that consumer prices in India were not reduced even when global crude oil prices fell on seven different occasions in the past 12 years.<\/p>\n<p> \tPAR15 LS-SULE-CRASH (4.08 PM) \tSupriya Sule raises Ajit Pawar plane crash in LS, seeks time-bound probe \tNew Delhi: NCP-SP leader Supriya Sule on Friday demanded a time-bound probe into the plane crash that killed former Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and criticised the state government for not filing an FIR in the matter.<\/p>\n<p> \tDEL45 DEF-CONTRACTS (4.20 PM) \tGovt inks twin defence deals worth Rs 858 crore \tNew Delhi: The defence ministry on Friday signed a Rs 445 crore contract with Russia&#39;s Rosoboronexport for procurement of an air defence missile system for the Indian Army.<\/p>\n<p> \tDEL27 DL-SONIA GANDHI-HOSPITAL (1.23 PM) \tSonia Gandhi&#39;s health shows improvement, will be discharg<\/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=71888\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p>es second list of party candidates for Apr 23 TN Assembly polls \tChennai: The Opposition AIADMK in Tamil Nadu on Friday announced the second list of  its party candidates for the April 23 Assembly election, retaining some of its MLAs.<\/p>\n<p> \tDEL30 PREZ-ECONOMIC-POLICY (3.21 PM) \t&#39;Behind every statistic lies human story&#39;, economic policy should improve people&#39;s lives: Murmu \tNew Delhi: Asserting that behind every statistic lies a human story, President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said that the true measure of economic policy is not merely in numbers, but in its outcome.<\/p>\n<p> \tBOM9 MH-ZIRWAL-FADNAVIS (2.44 PM) \tWill take appropriate decision on Zirwal issue after verifying facts: Fadnavis (2.44 PM) \tMumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said an \u201cappropriate decision\u201d on minister Narhari Zirwal will be taken after verification of facts in connection with a viral video showing the NCP leader with a trans-person in a bedroom.<\/p>\n<p> \tLEGAL  \tBOM6 MH-HC-AMBANI-PIL (1.23 P<\/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=71888\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIGHLIGHTSGSTDated:- 27-3-2026PTINew Delhi, Mar 27 (PTI) Following are the top stories at 5.10 pm: \t\t\t \t \tTOP STORIES  \tDEL34 BIZ-3RDLD PETROL-EXCISE CUT (3.38 PM) \tGovt cuts excise duty on petrol, diesel; slaps windfall tax on fuel exports \tNew Delhi:&#8230;<\/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-75299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75299","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=75299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}