India
Here is a curated list of top 5 stories for the evening.
Updated : Jun 18, 2017, 07:08 PM IST
BJP is all set to announce its Presidential candidate on Tuesday. Sources confirmed to DNA that BJP will be calling the meeting of its Parliamentary Board to endorse and subsequently announce the name of the candidate. Read more here.
The GST Council on Sunday relaxed return filing rules for businesses for the first two months of the rollout of the new indirect tax regime even as it stuck to the July 1 launch date. Read more here.
Questions on Goods and Services Tax (GST), benami transactions and schemes run by the central government were asked in the civil services preliminary examination held today. Read more here.
A forest fire raging since Saturday in central Portugal has killed at least 57 people, a government official said on Sunday, in what is possibly the deadliest-ever single forest blaze in Portugal. Read more here.
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth clinched his third Super Series title, lifting the Indonesia Open men's singles trophy with a straight-game victory over Japanese qualifier Kazumasa Sakai in the finals on Sunday. Read more here.