Top News Headlines of September 4, 2025 | 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits southeastern Afghanistan
Top News Headlines of September 4, 2025 | A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, even as the country continues to reel under the devastation of the quakes on Sunday that killed over 2,200 people. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Thursday’s quake was at a depth of 10 km (6.21 miles), GFZ said.
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The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council, in its 56th meeting which lasted over 10 hours Wednesday, cleared the next-generation reforms under the eight-year old indirect tax regime. This effectively paves the way for a broad two-slab structure of 5 per cent and 18 per cent with a demerit rate of 40 per cent rate only for super luxury, sin and demerit goods.
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Sep 4, 2025 11:33 PM IST
World News Live Updates | 6.2 magnitude earthquake hits southeastern Afghanistan
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Kolkata News Live Updates | ‘ Hooliganism’ -A Bengali band takes on Left, Right and Centre with a song, a BJP leader files complaint
Actor Anirban Bhattacharya-led Hooliganism band talks about SIR, CPI(M)’s political decimation in Bengal, takes a dig at PM and TMC’s Kunal Ghosh Read More
Sep 4, 2025 05:02 AM IST
World News Live Updates | At least 17 killed in crash after Lisbon’s historic cable car Gloria derails
Portugal's emergency medical service authority did not identify the victims and neither disclosed their nationalities but added that some foreign nationals were among the deceased. Read More
Sep 4, 2025 05:00 AM IST
India News Live Updates | Meditation to prosthetics, helping Ukrainians allay war trauma
Some of the soldiers and veterans who have had first-hand experience of stress and trauma in the Ukrainian war zone, spoke about the effectiveness of Indian meditation techniques and programmes being organised by volunteers and trainers from Bangalore-based spiritual organisation Art of Living.
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Sep 4, 2025 04:20 AM IST
Delhi News Live Updates | Exclusive: 5 years after FIR in Tablighi Jamaat Covid case, probe finds ‘nothing objectionable’ in Markaz head Maulana Saad’s speeches
Last month, the Delhi High Court ruled that merely living in a markaz did not amount to a violation of government-issued prohibitory orders curtailing movement during the onset of the pandemic. Read More
