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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicUnion Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry

Topic: Union Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry

Modi govt plans to launch ‘Aspirational Urban Local Bodies’ initiative in tier 2 & tier 3 cities

A proposal for the initiative is being prepared, it is learnt, after a pilot project was carried out in 7 urban local bodies. It aims to help them improve their physical & social infra.

Urban affairs ministry demands 4 times more funds for states to overcome losses due to GST

Ministry says with entertainment tax, advertisement tax and other such taxes subsumed into GST, some municipalities struggling to generate income.

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Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.