GST Overhaul 2025

Q1. When will the new GST design be in force?
a) September 4, 2025
b) September 22, 2025
c) October 1, 2025
d) January 1, 2026
Answer: b) September 22, 2025

Q2. So what GST rate will cement now pay in the new regime?
a) 5%
b) 12%
c) 18%
d) 28%
Answer: c) 18%

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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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.

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.