Rush Hour: India to face 25% US tariffs, Rahul Gandhi attacks Modi on Trump ceasefire claims & more
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United States President Donald Trump has announced that his country will levy a 25% tariff on goods imported from India from August 1. New Delhi will also have to pay a penalty for buying a large portion of its military equipment from Russia, added Trump.
He has not specified the quantum of the penalty. The US president said that the tariffs levied by India are “far too high, among the highest in the World, and they have the most strenuous and obnoxious non-monetary Trade Barriers of any Country”.
This came two days after Trump said that he would likely introduce a global baseline tariff between 15% and 20% for countries that had not negotiated trade deals with his administration by the August 1 deadline he had set. Read on.
Residents displaced by an eviction drive launched in the Golaghat district have claimed that the Assam government had helped them settle in the area in the late 1970s to prevent alleged encroachment from Nagaland. The eviction drive was launched on Tuesday morning and is likely to displace 1,500 Muslim families.
One of the residents of the Bidyapur village...
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