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According to the IRCTC, the train covers important destinations connected with the life of Buddha in India and Nepal over eight days starting from October 19 to 26.

The scheme provides income support of Rs 6,000 per year to landholding families, subject to certain exclusions.

GoAir will increase frequencies between its existing routes such as Kolkata-Guwahati and Ahmedabad-Chandigarh.

UIDAI circular said valid Indian passport will be accepted as proof of identity, proof of address (PoA) and date of birth document.

Jio recharge news: Recharge plans for usage of 1.5 GB of data per day starts at Rs. 149 and for 5 GB data per day, the recharge plan is for Rs. 799.

Currently GST at the rate of 28% is charged on hotel rooms with tariffs over Rs 7,500 and 18% on rooms which are priced between Rs 2,500-7,500.

As per BBPS website, the facility would be expanded to include other types of repetitive payments like insurance premium, mutual funds, school fees, EMIs, and municipal taxes, among others.

The GST Network has also decided to complete online refunding from September 24 from the central GST or the state GST.

The relief will be applicable to 35 pairs of Humsafar trains, which currently have only AC 3-tier classes, the official said.

DigiLocker, a cloud-based government platform, has partnered with the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways for making available digital driving licence (DL) and vehicle registration certificates (RC) to citizens, according to its official website - digilocker.gov.in. Under this partnership, DigiLocker is directly integrated with the National Register, which is the national database of driving licence and vehicle registration data across the country. DigiLocker users can access their digital DL and RC both on desktop computers and on mobile devices.

A maximum of 6 tickets can be booked by an individual user in a month via IRCTC's website/app. However, the ceiling limit has been raised to 12 tickets for the individual users, where accounts are verified through Aadhaar ID and one of the passengers in the ticket booked is verifiable through Aadhaar.

The Meteorological Department has issued a 'red alert' for various places, including Mumbai city and suburbs, Thane and Palghar districts, for next 24 hours in wake of the heavy rains.

Railway tour packages: The 5 nights and 6 days package covers popular destinations like Trivandrum, Kanyakumari, Rameswaram, Kodaikanal and Madurai.

IRCTC Tour Plan: The cost of IRCTC Tourism's Happy Himachal & Powerful Punjab tour package is Rs 43,500 on single occupancy basis, Rs 31,750 per person on double occupancy basis, Rs 30,310 per person on triple occupancy basis, IRCTC Tourism noted on its website.

IRCTC Tourism package includes air tickets, accommodation in deluxe hotels, breakfast, dinner and travel insurance.