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Hizbul chief Riyaz Naikoo has reportedly been killed by the security forces after a long encounter. In the wake of this incident, mobile internet services remain suspended across the valley. This and more, get to know the top national stories at a glance.

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Published : May 6, 2020, 3:34 PM IST

There couldn’t have been a worse time for the Indian economy for a pandemic to blow in. While the economy was not exactly in the pink of health, COVID-19 has pushed it further down the financial abyss.

  • Tax now forms 70% of petrol, diesel prices

The base price of petrol currently is mere Rs 17.96 a litre and diesel just Rs 18.49 a litre.

  • Centre hits out at WB govt, asks for B'desh border to be opened for cargo

The Union Home Ministry said the West Bengal government has not implemented repeated directions of the Centre for free movement of cargo through the Indo-Bangladesh border, and this amounts to violation of the Disaster Management Act.

  • No umbrella, no booze, Tiruppur Collector tells tipplers

To avoid social gathering while buying liquor amid COVID-19 pandemic, the Tiruppur district administration has come up with a unique idea.

  • Govt increasing petrol-diesel prices unfair: Rahul Gandhi

Terming the rise in petrol and diesel prices as "unfair", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said when the fight against COVID-19 is causing economic hardship to all, the government instead of reducing prices has raised them.

  • Fauci dismisses theory coronavirus originated in Chinese lab

Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.

  • Deepika Padukone thanks music for 'bringing joy' in life

The actor shared a picture of her piano and penned a caption dedicated to music and describing how life would have been incomplete without it.

  • Lockdown effect: From almost crawling goods trains register 66 per cent jump in speed

During normal times, goods trains run at an average speed of 24kmph, but during the lockdown, some zones have managed to double their speeds, as the threat of coronavirus keep the passenger trains off the rail network, decongesting its routes.

  • Hizbul commander Riyaz Naikoo killed in Pulwama encounter

Kashmir's most wanted militant and Hizbul chief Riyaz Naikoo has been killed in his native Beighpora village in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district.

  • 9 cr people have downloaded Aarogya Setu app: Govt

Close to nine crore users have downloaded the Aarogya Setu mobile application and it has been made mandatory that government and private sector employees use it to bolster efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • ‘Helicopter money’ a way out of looming post-COVID 19 recession, say economists

There couldn’t have been a worse time for the Indian economy for a pandemic to blow in. While the economy was not exactly in the pink of health, COVID-19 has pushed it further down the financial abyss.

  • Tax now forms 70% of petrol, diesel prices

The base price of petrol currently is mere Rs 17.96 a litre and diesel just Rs 18.49 a litre.

  • Centre hits out at WB govt, asks for B'desh border to be opened for cargo

The Union Home Ministry said the West Bengal government has not implemented repeated directions of the Centre for free movement of cargo through the Indo-Bangladesh border, and this amounts to violation of the Disaster Management Act.

  • No umbrella, no booze, Tiruppur Collector tells tipplers

To avoid social gathering while buying liquor amid COVID-19 pandemic, the Tiruppur district administration has come up with a unique idea.

  • Govt increasing petrol-diesel prices unfair: Rahul Gandhi

Terming the rise in petrol and diesel prices as "unfair", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said when the fight against COVID-19 is causing economic hardship to all, the government instead of reducing prices has raised them.

  • Fauci dismisses theory coronavirus originated in Chinese lab

Top US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated.

  • Deepika Padukone thanks music for 'bringing joy' in life

The actor shared a picture of her piano and penned a caption dedicated to music and describing how life would have been incomplete without it.

  • Lockdown effect: From almost crawling goods trains register 66 per cent jump in speed

During normal times, goods trains run at an average speed of 24kmph, but during the lockdown, some zones have managed to double their speeds, as the threat of coronavirus keep the passenger trains off the rail network, decongesting its routes.

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