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Highlights of 5 September 2025 Current Affairs
- The 56th GST Council meeting approved next-generation reforms, restructuring GST into two rates—5% and 18%—while scrapping the 12% and 28% slabs for simplification.
- Essential items like milk, paneer, chapati, and paratha exempted from GST, while medicines, toiletries, bicycles, and farm tools moved to 5% GST.
- Consumer relief measures included reducing GST on small cars, TVs, ACs, and home appliances from 28% to 18%, easing the burden on middle-class families.
- All life insurance and health insurance policies exempted from GST, making healthcare and financial protection more affordable for citizens across income groups.
- Luxury cars, tobacco, and aerated drinks placed under a higher 40% GST slab, ensuring sin and luxury goods contribute significantly to government revenue.
- Environment Audit Rules 2025 introduced, creating Environment Audit Designate Agency and Registered Environment Auditors, ensuring structured, impartial, and transparent environmental compliance monitoring.
- Cabinet approved a ₹1,500 crore incentive scheme under NCMM to promote recycling of critical minerals from e-waste, batteries, catalytic converters, and mineral-bearing scraps.
- Dadabhai Naoroji’s 200th birth anniversary celebrated nationwide, honoring his role as a reformer, economic thinker, INC leader, and advocate of the “Drain of Wealth” theory.
- Bhutan’s Prime Minister visited Nalanda University, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, symbolizing India’s ancient global academic influence and the university’s historical role in knowledge exchange.
- ‘Operation Black Forest,’ the largest anti-Naxal operation, launched on Karregutta hill along Chhattisgarh–Telangana border to dismantle Left-Wing Extremist strongholds in dense forests.
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