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New Delhi: The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) on Sunday refuted a viral social media message claiming that new GST transition benefits, including unutilised cess credit, ITC on exempted supplies, and fresh price adjustment provisions, will take effect from September 22, calling the claims “false and misleading.”  In a statement posted on the social media platform X, CBIC clarified that no such changes are planned and urged the public not to rely on unofficial messages. “It has come to notice that an informal message claiming to be from Chairman CBIC is being widely circulated on social media,…

Pope Leo XIV declared 15-year-old Carlo Acutis the first millennial saint at an open-air Mass attended by tens of thousands of people in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.Informally known as “God’s influencer,” Acutis was just 15 when he died of acute promyelocytic leukemia in Milan in 2006 and has two miracles attributed to him by the Catholic Church.The Vatican said 36 cardinals, 270 bishops and hundreds of priests had signed up to celebrate the Mass, where Leo also canonized Pier Giorgio Frassati, another popular Italian who died young.Pope Leo XIV waves to faithful holding a picture of Carlo…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The South Korean government has reached a deal with the U.S. to secure the release of hundreds of migrant workers detained at a Hyundai automobile factory in Georgia.Homeland Security Investigations said 475 people who were in the country illegally, primarily from South Korea, were arrested as part of the operation at the under-construction battery plant. Hyundai owns the plant, but claimed none of the workers were directly employed by the company.President Lee Jae Myung’s office says the country will send a charter plane to bring the workers back to South Korea in…

Keir Starmer is facing fresh pressure from Labour insiders, days after a sweeping government reshuffle, as party figures from the left and centre mobilise through a network, backed by Andy Burnham, designed to change Labour’s direction.The network, called Mainstream, will inevitably influence Labour’s looming deputy leadership contest, with Burnham already throwing his weight behind former cabinet minister Louise Haigh as well as Lucy Powell, the former Commons leader.Mainstream has been steered by Compass a centre-left thinktank, and Open Labour and is backed by Burnham, the Greater Manchester mayor who when asked did not rule out the possibility of running in…

New Delhi: Air India CEO Campbell Wilson on Sunday highlighted the airline’s recent operations, stressing that the rate of flight incidents remains consistent with the carrier’s scale, even as key performance indicators such as on-time performance and customer satisfaction have reached record levels. “Over the past few months, our operations have garnered significant attention, both internally and externally,” Wilson said in a mail to employees. He noted that airlines routinely face a mix of controllable and uncontrollable operational scenarios but underlined the company’s commitment to transparency. “So, over recent weeks we have been even more transparent than usual in reporting…

KYIV, Ukraine — Armed with machine guns, balaclava-clad Russian soldiers burst into 16-year-old Vladislav Rudenko’s home in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine and gave him half an hour to gather some things.“I was home alone. I packed my things in a panic,” the teenager told NBC News, describing the morning in October 2022, eight months after Russian forces captured the city, when he said the soldiers forced him to get into a car and drove away “in an unknown direction.”It was the start of an eight-month nightmare as the teenager became part of a systematic effort by Russia…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE – Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is touting support from a growing list of prominent donors who once backed Democrat Tim Ryan, a development his campaign says underscores a major political shift in the Buckeye State.According to Ramaswamy’s team, nearly $220,000 of the contributions raised in his first months as a candidate came from individuals who previously gave to Ryan, the former congressman from Youngstown who is weighing a bid for governor. Ryan has not officially declared a gubernatorial bid and has said he will make a decision by the…

New Delhi: Planning a bank visit this week? You might want to double-check first. Between September 8 and 14, 2025, many bank branches across India will remain shut on different days due to a mix of national and regional holidays, including Eid-e-Milad, the Friday following Eid, and the usual weekend closures. Bank Closures Under RBI Holiday List The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has listed these holidays under the Negotiable Instruments Act, which covers transactions like cheques and promissory notes. While ATMs and online banking will continue to work, customers won’t be able to access in-person services at branches in…

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his resignation Sunday, plunging the world’s fourth largest economy and a key U.S. ally into fresh political uncertainty amid rising living costs and growing tensions in the region.“I have consistently stated that I do not intend to cling to this position, and that I would make a decision at the appropriate time after accomplishing what needed to be done,” he told a press conference.Ishiba finalized details of a trade deal with the U.S. last week, under which Japan pledged $550 billion of investments in return for lower tariffs on its auto sector.Ishiba called the…

The UK’s new business secretary, Peter Kyle, will fly to Beijing this week as part of Keir Starmer’s continuing efforts to revitalise the UK’s trade relationship with China and deliver growth to the British economy.The former science and technology secretary, who was promoted in Friday’s government reshuffle, is expected to land in China on Wednesday, picking up the schedule of his predecessor, Jonathan Reynolds, who is now chief whip.Kyle will first travel to Washington as part of the preparations for Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK and from there is expected to go to Beijing for a meeting with…