GST Council meeting postponed to 7 October from 12 September
The preparatory meetings of government officers will now be held on 5 October from 3pm and on 6 October from 11am onwards, ahead of the GST Council meeting on 7 October.
The preparatory meetings of government officers will now be held on 5 October from 3pm and on 6 October from 11am onwards, ahead of the GST Council meeting on 7 October.
Moody’s Ratings, in a recent report, said a new macroeconomic regime is driving differentiated repricing across financial assets, and at the heart of this shift is a move towards higher interest rates.
The 57th GST Council meeting, scheduled for September 12 has been rescheduled due to a clash with the BRICS Summit in New Delhi. The meeting is expected to discuss pending GST issues, including ITC, corporate guarantees and rate rationalisation.
India's updated gross domestic product methodology addresses past statistical issues, but downward nominal revisions and the sudden inclusion of the Producer Price Index raise credibility concerns.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the appeal on September 1 in a video posted on Instagram from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek, linking domestic spending choices with India's goal of becoming a developed economy by 2047.
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Convened by the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute (SWFI), the summit is designed to directly connect sovereign capital with bankable infrastructure, energy, and digital capacity projects across the 21 BRICS member states and partner nations.

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