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After leaving the audience stunned with a beautiful track 'Pyaar Karona', Salman Khan is all set to release a new song which is titled as 'Tere Bina’, as he had promised to deliver two more songs to the audience.

GST Network Helpdesk on Sunday said it has handled over 56,000 taxpayer issues in one month since the nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25.

The loan has been disbursed under a refinance scheme by Nabard from its own resources and was given this week. "An amount of Rs 12,767 crore has been disbursed this week to StCBs and RRBs across the country in a bid to augment their resources during the ongoing lockdown conditions for extending credit to farmers," Nabard said.

With the nationwide lockdown to fight the COVID-19 pandemic restricting inter- and intra-state traffic to essential services, toll collections from build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects, and remittances from publicly funded projects would decline sharply in the near term, Crisil report said.

Their period of overstay in India due to lockdown could be exempted, as prescribed by OECD.

Sandhu and other top brass of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have been on an inspection spree of projects, taking the benefit of no traffic on otherwise congested highways. NHAI, an official said, has at least 180 cases in arbitration involving a sum of about Rs 80,000 crore.

As the ministry of home affairs (MHA) made way for lifting curbs on certain sectors to get economic activity restarted, construction activity is still crawling, though it has started across various districts.

AIKSCC flags impact of lockdown on procurement, sales

A senior government official said Cadila Pharmaceuticals closed its Ahmedabad plant as five employees tested positive last week, and 21 this week.

The defender was forced to issue an apology last month after media reports that he had hosted a party at his home.

But before getting back to Sweden, he had given his wards a fitness regime to follow at their homes and checks on the players regularly.

At least three petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court demanding that companies be given the freedom to fire or furlough employees.

The Italian Football Federation met with the government’s technical scientific committee to discuss details of the medical protocol for a return to training.

The retired Supreme Court judge said the AK Patnaik committee report that investigated alleged manipulation of the court should be placed before the bench.

The lockdown has not ‘killed’ the virus and was never going to. We will have to learn to live with Covid-19, possibly until 2022.

‘However strange your experience, other people have had it too,’ wrote Woolf in this 1926 essay.

The course will be attended by 32 senior men and 23 senior women core probables on May 11 and 15 respectively.

The state has registered a huge increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the last few days.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni is one of the co-owners of Chennaiyin FC, two-time winners of Indian Super League in 2015 and 2017-’18 season.

Use of some cancer screening and monitoring tests came to 'a near standstill' in early April in the US, a new report indicates.
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With over 30,000 electricity employees on strike, power generation and supply has taken a big hit.

Villagers had donated the land to Asaram, but burnt it following allegations of sexual assault.

Tejpal's decision came after the woman journalist complained to managing editor of Tehelka.

Fate of the price of sugar hangs on basic factors such as the global and national surplus.

Earlier, former SC judge Ganguly said that time has not come to think about quitting.

In India, the short video making app leads the chart with more than 600 million downloads or about 30.3 per cent of all unique installs

The value of IMPS (Immediate Payment Service) transactions in April fell to about Rs 1.21 trillion in April, from about Rs 2.02 trillion in March

Realme has extended warranty on products, which expired during the lockdown period, till June 30

There was an overall traffic increase of 73 per cent on weekdays and 65 per cent on weekends, said the 'State of Internet Traffic Trend' report by ACT Fibernet

Negative outlook reflects increasing risk, it says

Average ticket size of medicine orders has doubled,it says