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Australian cricketers ready to take pay cut if situation arises: Hazlewood
With coronavirus outbreak halting all cricketing action, Cricket Australia has laid off 80% of its staff for the rest of the financial year which ends on June 30.
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In pics: Agriculture activity picks up amid coronavirus lockdown crisis
Farming operations are exempted from the lockdown restrictions
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Covid-19 hinterland digest: Lockdown gives Punjab respite from drug menace
A newborn in Nagaur is infected by Covid-19 while an elephant breaks the lockdown in Jharkhand
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Coronavirus: Mushfiqur Rahim puts his maiden double-century bat on auction
Last week, Shakib-al-Hasan had called upon the players to auction their belongings like jerseys and cricket equipments
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Coronavirus impact: Hindu priests with body cameras & new temple economics
India's biggest, richest and most sacred Hindu temples may have to change themselves for the sake of their devotees
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Covid-19: Post paycuts, young salaried look up to P2P platforms for loans
With no upper limit, the interest rates in the platform can go as high as 35 per cent, on a reducing balance
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Mumbai, Pune, Indore: 11 places where the situation is 'especially serious'
The central government has constituted six Inter-Ministerial Central Teams to make on-spot assessment of the Covid-19 situation in these places
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Coronavirus: All you need to know about new relaxation rules in your state
Coronavirus updates: The death toll due to Covid-19 infection has jumped to 556 so far
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Covid-19 lockdown relaxation: NHAI resumes toll collection from today
NHAI had suspended toll collection on all national highways after the 21-day nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24 to ease emergency services in view of the coronavirus outbreak
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Covid-19: As govt offices reopen, here are guidelines by MoHFW for safety
It advised the authorities to ensure proper cleaning, sanitisation of the workplace, particularly the frequently touched surfaces
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Covid-19: Entire Pune City declared as containment zone till April 27
The decision comes a day after Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar directed the strict implementation of the lockdown in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad limits
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Covid-19 hinterland digest: 5 new hotspots emerge in Rajasthan in 2 days
Jodhpur, Kota, Tonk, Bharatpur, and Nagaur have emerged as new hotspots of coronavirus in the state. 25 out of 33 cities in Rajasthan have been hit by the pandemic till now
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Covid-19: Stranded migrants can work during lockdown, but conditions apply
No interstate movement allowed; registration with local authorities must
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Over 400,000 samples tested, 17,615 Indians Covid-19 positive: ICMR
ICMR said that by the end of May it would achieve the testing capacity of 100,000 per day
Top 10 biz headlines: Stranded labour in lockdown, company results and more
Here are the top business headlines this Monday
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India coronavirus dispatch: A constitutional duty towards our urban poor
From treating migrant workers justly and humanely, to flattening the state-level curves, and how epidemics change the course of nations - read these and more in today's dispatch
Covid-19 Factoid: After Kerala, now Tamil Nadu is showing signs of success
While the time taken for 100,000 confirmed cases globally to recover has declined to just three days from 48 earlier, the gap between new cases and recoveries in Germany has narrowed significantly
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Best of BS Opinion: Global financial system, coronavirus outbreak, and more
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
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Coronavirus outbreak: Lok Sabha Secretariat to resume work from today
All officers of the joint secretary rank and above will join office
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Covid-19: Irdai directs health insurers to settle claims within two hours
All the insurers shall decide health insurance claims expeditiously, it said in a circular
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