The GST Council discussed possible Goods and Service Tax rates, including a four-slab structure of 6, 12, 18 and 26 per cent with lower rates for essential items and highest band for luxury goods; Announcing that "Lord Ram is an integral part of Indian life," Union Minister Mahesh Sharma said that a"Ramayana museum" being planned for the communally-sensitive town of Ayodhya "is not the political agenda" of the BJP ahead of elections in Uttar Pradesh; A day after a massive fire in Bhubaneswar's SUM Hospital in which 20 people died, the hospital's medical superintendent and three others have been arrested.
