Goods and services tax (GST) collections retained their momentum, rising 28% year-on-year to around Rs 1,43,612 crore in August, the sixth straight month of over Rs 1.4 lakh crore mop-up.
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly approved Volker Turk of Austria to be the global body's Human Rights Chief by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Odisha government distributed Rs 869 crore to 41.85 state farmers under the Krushak Assistance for Livelihood and Income Augmentation (KALIA) scheme and assured them of additional aid for crop losses due to floods in the state.
The Department of Science & Technology (DST) has undertaken to set up India's first-ever 'Night Sky Sanctuary' in Ladakh which will be completed within the next three months.
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