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GST Council Endorses New Tax design effective September 22, 2025

A significant redesign of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime has been passed by the GST Council to take effect on September 22, 2025. The new regime will reduce slabs by 5-percent and 18%, and 40% on luxury and sin goods. The reform is expected to increase consumer purchasing, compliance, and economic growth.

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Towards Agri-Food Exports, APEDA initiates BHARATI

 

APEDA introduced BHARATI in 2025 to help 100 agri-food and agri-tech startups through support in innovation and the growth of export capabilities in India. The project is in line with the national goal of having agri-food exports of 50 billion in 2030.

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Boston Brahmins-The Leading Culturatti of America

Boston Brahmins is a term used in reference to the traditional old upper-class gentry of the 19th century in Boston. The term was used in 1861 by Oliver Wenddell Holmes to describe the families who were largely the descendants of English colonisers who gained control over the land by establishing a hegemony through education, commerce and strategically planned marriages.

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Delhi Forest Department Defines the meaning of tree by law

To help in standardization of tree counting and management in conservation and pruning, the Delhi Forest Department has issued a circular to define the legal meaning of a tree under the Delhi Preservation of Trees Act (DPTA), 1994, to align the legal definition with the actual meaning of the word in practice. That follows disagreements over branches being counted as individual trees.

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ESA Solar Orbiter Discovers the Origins of Energetic Solar Particles

Launched in 2020 in partnership with NASA, the Solar Orbiter of the European Space Agency has given important insights into the sources of energetic particles emitted by the Sun, as well as provided detailed images of the poles of the Sun and traced the sources of the Solar Energetic Electrons (SEEs), which are important in understanding space weather that impacts Earth and satellites.

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