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Replying to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Sitharaman said whenever any instances of tax evasion comes to the notice of the department, appropriate actions are taken as per law.

The GUJCET Admit Card 2020 was released by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board on its official website at gujcet.gseb.org

Earlier, a 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi in Karnataka with a travel history to Saudi Arabia and a 68-year-old woman in Delhi died after they tested positive for the infection.

Coronavirus testing is currently of two types: blood-based and swab based. While the blood-based test is expected to cost around Rs 700, the swab-based one could cost around Rs 6,000 once private labs start the tests.

ICMR Director-General Dr Balram Bhargava said although India is still in stage 2 of the outbreak, one cannot predict when it will enter stage 3, which is when community transmission takes place.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the fund will be utilised in containing the coronavirus pandemic. The state government has ordered 2 lakh N-95 masks, 2 lakh hazmat suits and 10,000 thermal guns among other things, she said.

Social distancing can be implemented to avoid contact between those who are infected and those who are not, so as to stop or slow down the rate and extent of disease transmission in a community.

Addressing the Assembly, Chief Minister Hemant Soren said the shutdown will be applicable on government as well as private educational institutions, besides coaching centres and hostels.

Gehlot has been very vocal about the issue and repeatedly attacked the central government over the controversial legislation. He has demanded its withdrawal for maintaining peace and harmony in the country.

Activists Teltumbde and Navlakha had approached the high court seeking pre-arrest bail in November last year after a sessions court in Pune rejected their pleas.

District Magistrate BN Singh said the administration has also set up a control centre at the collectorate to respond to queries on COVID-19 round the clock.

After a fresh death warrant that directed that the convicts be hanged together on march 20, the Tihar Jail authorities wrote to their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh requesting for the service of hangman Pawan Jallad, a senior jail official said.

In a notification, Calcutta HC Registrar General Rai Chattopadhyay said no adverse orders will be passed on matters where parties are found absent till the situation persists.

According to one estimate, traders in Delhi have suffered losses to the tune of Rs 20,000 crore in the last one month due to the communal violence and ongoing fears of the spread of coronavirus.

The accused asked the woman to give him loan worth Rs 3 lakh and requested her to meet him after which he shot her twice.

A delegation of Altaf Bukhari's Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party called on Modi at his residence he engaged with them on various issues like concerns on demographic changes, the delimitation exercise and grant of state domicile.