With the summer holidays approaching, numerous tourist sites have reopened, including Beijing's storied Forbidden City palace complex and Shanghai's Disneyland resort, although with strict social distancing measures still in place

The company's plant in Tamil Nadu has already been producing immunity and nutrition products which were included in essential items category, although beauty and home durable products were impacted

The company manages 187 unit Somerset Greenways Chennai and 269 unit Citadines OMR Chennai and witnessed an average occupancy rate of 45 per cent

Besides ESG funds, experts believe index funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are the other themes which are gaining traction among the country's mutual fund companies

The company, with 36 sales and service locations across the country, has recently introduced online sales and service initiative in order to enable customers book vehicles from the comfort of their homes as coronavirus pandemic rages on

Packets containing food, masks and water bottles were handed to each of the 1,168 workers by staff of the Revenue and Disaster Management department, official sources said.

The additional revenue collected would be utilised for delivery of services in health, education and other social sectors, as per the press statement of Odisha government

Rajasthan Petroleum Dealers Association President Suneet Bagai said that state government has revised the VAT rate third time in the last three months

While revenues coming out of road cess will only go to the Centre, it will share some revenues out of excise duty hike with state governments

Taxes account for 63 percent of the retail price of fuel in France and Germany, 64 percent in Italy, 62 percent in Britain

Coronavirus in India live updates: Home Affairs Secretary Ajay Bhalla has chided West Bengal for inadequate COVID-19 testing and highest mortality rate among states; Maharashtra remains the worst-hit state, followed by Gujarat and Delhi

According to the Reserve Bank of India's 'State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2019-20' report published in September 2019, the levies on alcohol make-up on an average 10 to 15 per cent of States' Own Tax Revenue (SOTR) for the majority of states

Centre recently allowed the sale of liquor across all zones from May 4, which resulted in buyers swarming shops and causing chaos while throwing social distancing norms to wind. Situation became so out of control that East Delhi authorities had to close many wine and liquor shops

In total, Delhi government has raised VAT on petrol to 30 per cent from 27 per cent, previously, while VAT on diesel was almost doubled to 30 per cent from 16.75 per cent currently

Corona lockdown 3.0 live updates: COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra crossed the 15,000-mark with 841 new cases in 24 hours. Mumbai alone has almost 10,000 coronavirus cases. National capital Delhi has 5,104 cases

LPG prices today: This, however, is not the first time that the LPG prices have been slashed as the OMCs generally revise the prices of LPG cylinders every month

The public transport is off the roads due to a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus. The bus hike is much below the 25 per cent increase carried out in 2010-11 and 20 per cent increase in 2012-13, the statement said

Sensex, Nifty Live News Today: Indian indices were the top laggards amongst the key global indices, since the average peak achieved in February 2020. Since then, Brazil index has fallen 40%, followed by India, where the decline stands at 36%. Compared to this, other key indices average decline stands around 31-28% from peak.

Earlier this month, the Centre increased the excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 3 per litre each, which can help collect revenues up to Rs 39,000 crore annually

India may not face crude oil shortage if the tensions in the middle east escalate even to a war, as many countries such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela or other Mediterranean and Middle East countries can assure supplies to the country