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Value added tax on aviation turbine fuel at Chennai airport has fallen from 29 per cent to 16 per cent. Two airlines have agreed to add services without saying when.
Parliament unanimously passed four amendments tied to the Papua LNG project, a step the prime minister said would help unlock an estimated $14.5bn of investment. The benefit-sharing formula turns on a neutral benchmark.
Households must earn less than £110,000 to qualify for the Your First Home scheme, or £140,000 in the capital. Ministers had first considered £90,000 and £110,000.
Parliament approved the bill after more than sixteen hours of debate. From January, platforms must establish a user's age without being told it.
The Cabinet Directive on Regulatory Competitiveness and Red Tape Reduction takes effect on 31 December and replaces the 2018 directive. Business groups welcomed the two-for-one rule.
The government's Private Parking Code of Practice, seven years in the making, sets guaranteed grace periods, a £20 appeal cap and a freeze on the £100 maximum charge. Some 17 million private tickets were issued last year.
More than 9,000 employees from about 51 departments relocate between the twin capitals each year. The convoys travel with a crane, mobile workshops and two empty buses.
The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy expects agrivoltaic capacity above 5GW, subject to how quickly states notify feed-in tariffs. The other stated condition is enthusiasm.
New guidance tells local transport authorities to fine bus passengers up to £100 for nuisance behaviour. Train operators can already charge up to £1,000 for much the same thing.
Parliament has directed the government to prepare a temporary prohibition. The government says the bill will arrive in the spring 2027 session.
Welsh Labour will table a Senedd vote on Wednesday calling for an appropriate relief road. A report published this month puts the cost at around three billion pounds and says the corridor is no longer safeguarded.
France has dropped its objection to the United Kingdom being counted as European for the purposes of the Industrial Accelerator Act. Being European is now an opt-in.
Ministers want England's district and borough councils merged into larger, mostly mayoral authorities. Some leaders in Berkshire and Oxfordshire say the geography does not work.
MEPs adopted a non-binding report by 21 votes to four, asking Brussels to amend the 2019 western Mediterranean plan by 1 December. Of the area's 20 stocks, 13 could be analytically assessed.
Magdalena Andersson's second attempt to form a government has failed, and parliament will hold the vote anyway on Thursday. The speaker has four attempts in total.
The GST Council has recommended that no notice be issued where the sum at stake is Rs 10,000 or below. It has also recommended that the maximum general penalty be Rs 10,000.
A rule written into the House of the People's procedures in 2022 is being enforced for the first time. One fifth of a month's salary is $1,048.
The Sejm has passed a bill banning off-premises alcohol sales between 10pm and 6am, with local authorities free to widen the window at both ends. Bars and restaurants are unaffected.
Mark Drakeford says "the time has come" to think about abolishing the department. Its powers over health, education, environment, agriculture and transport passed to Cardiff twenty-seven years ago.
The cabinet adopted the legislation on Friday. It would be the first reduction since the consumption tax was introduced in 1989.
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation's first cargo consignment travelled from Thiruvananthapuram to Aluva on Wednesday. The Transport Minister said the proceeds would be used in a way that benefits passengers.
The response commits the UK to a “world-leading agile approach” to regulating AI-enabled medical devices. A roadmap setting out timelines and responsibilities across all 44 arrives by spring 2027.
A proposed rule would remove six training and competency requirements the agency says exceed minimum international standards, for an estimated $42.8 million in savings over ten years.
A petition signed by 391 residents argued that coming to a complete halt is almost never of any safety value. The transport minister's reply rests on the single feature that separates the two signs.
Parents in England lose 30 funded hours a week and up to £2,000 a child once either parent passes £100,000. The party would remove the threshold entirely, at an estimated cost of £700m.
A study of 1,698 listings found almost none documented a legal import. The environment department says Australia is not identified as a country with substantial ivory smuggling.
The housing minister told parliament that self-regulation of the sector had failed. The trade associations agree with her, and explain precisely why.
Thirty links, 37 basins, 174 billion cubic metres. A new study finds the canals would also connect a basin holding 13 to 15 invasive species to one holding 69 threatened ones.
The earnings element goes from 2030, leaving inflation and a 2.5 per cent floor. The policy's title was arrived at by counting.
The governor-general will dissolve Parliament by proclamation ahead of the 7 November election. Members remain members, the prime minister remains prime minister, and the Clerk of the House says there is always a House of Representatives.
Executive Order 26-26 took effect on signature. The standards defining the review it requires are due within three months.
A committee drafting a bill to transfer three parliamentary villages to Parliament was told the facilities management contract has never been broken down. The department that holds it regards the transfer as a possible encroachment on its mandate.
Parliament passed the 22nd Amendment by 158 votes to 63, raising retirement ages across the superior courts and adding fifteen posts. The backlog is counted in cases; the remedy is counted in years.
Fourteen-year-olds in England will be able to take new vocational GCSEs from 2029, with standards set nationally by Ofqual. Ministers say the aim is to improve the esteem in which such qualifications are held.
The Music Bill 2026 has passed the state parliament. An event with more than four acts is no longer automatically a large-scale festival, and sound at major outdoor sites will be assessed over time rather than at its peaks.
Both Houses were adjourned sine die on 13 August. Prorogation, the formal end of a session, usually follows within three or four days.
The Madras High Court has adjourned a fare-revision petition to 26 October. Tamil Nadu's stage carriage fare has stood at 58 paise per kilometre for eight years.
Michelle Bachelet has left the race to lead the United Nations after a third informal straw poll. The council's ballot offers three options, one of which is having no opinion.
Peers approved an updated rule book on Wednesday requiring business attire when debating or voting, with the necktie now a matter of personal judgement. The only precise dress requirement left in the chamber concerns bishops.
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee will take evidence on how the United Kingdom selects its Eurovision act. The 2026 entry finished last with one point.
Departments disclosed the payments in answers to parliamentary questions. The rulebook governing the hires asks whether a creator has recently been posting about political issues.