The Centre is likely to push for a 5 per cent tax on EVs when its ambitious overhaul of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to lower tax rates on daily use items ranging from butter to electronics is considered by the all powerful GST Council in a two-day meeting starting Wednesday.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said India-China relations are gradually moving towards normalcy, noting that as border issues get resolved, easing of tensions is a natural consequence.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorm with gusty wind at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for the next two days due to a cyclonic circulation over the Bay of Bengal, an official said on Tuesday.

A day after the conclusion of the ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ led by Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav in Bihar, the Bharatiya Janata Party has accused Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera of having two voter ID cards and also asked the Election Commission (EC) to investigate if Khera has voted multiple times.

The Bombay High Court has allowed Manoj Jarange to stay at Azad Maidan, the ground zero of his hunger strike, till September 3 morning after initially directing the Maratha quota leader and protesters to vacate the venue by 3 PM on Tuesday.

 In an incident reported from Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi, a man missing for nearly seven years was traced and arrested after his wife spotted him in an Instagram reel with another woman.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said he was deeply pained by the hurling of abuses at his mother during Congress' recently concluded 'Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Bihar, and asserted that although he may forgive RJD and the grand old party but people of the eastern state would never pardon them.

In a significant development in the 2020 Delhi riots "larger conspiracy" case, the Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed the bail pleas of student activists Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam, and seven other accused. The judgment was delivered by a division bench comprising Justice Naveen Chawla and Justice Shalinder Kaur.