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StoneX just launched a coffee table book, and is now taking the work of its artists across India with Stone Portraits

By newsportaltoday September 4, 2025

The StoneX refinery in Kishangarh, Rajasthan, is like a garden brimming with slabs of stones. There are 700 varieties, with colours as myriad as flowers in bloom, behold the slabs…

More than meets the consumer’s eye

By newsportaltoday September 4, 2025

India has finally moved to a five-slab GST regime, after the reform promised by the Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort. The previous six-rate system has been…

New GST rates as ‘Gabbar Singh tax’? Congress leader Priyank Kharge takes dig at Centre’s ‘One Nation, 9 Taxes’

By newsportaltoday September 4, 2025

Congress leader Priyank Kharge on Thursday slammed the Centre's recent GST reforms, saying the concept of “One Nation, One Tax” has effectively become “One Nation, 9 Taxes.”Also Read: GST Meeting…

Irfan Pathan opens up on 5-year-old hookah controversy with MS Dhoni, asks ‘Fan war? PR lobby?’

By newsportaltoday September 4, 2025

Days after the controversy surrounding his past ‘hookah’ remark on MS Dhoni, former Indian pacer and all-rounder Irfan Pathan opened up and hinted at possible PR agendas as the driving…

New GST Rates for Insurance Sector put stocks in limelight as Star Health surges over 9 percent

By newsportaltoday September 4, 2025

All individual life insurance policies, whether term life, ULIP or endowment policies and subsequent reinsurance are exempt from GST, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on September 3, 2025. (Representational image) |…

How FMCG and appliance makers plan to pass on GST benefits to consumers

By newsportaltoday September 4, 2025

Makers of fast-moving consumer goods, which have seen the biggest benefit with GST on items of daily use coming down from 12-18% to 5%, said they'll lower the prices of…