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INDIAN 15 March, 2020 | Sunday | Volume No: 8| Issue No:23 Pages: 8 CHRONICLE www.indianchronicle.com Published from : Ranga Reddy (Telangana State) 3 69-year-old coronavirus positive woman dies in New Delhi Moratorium on Yes Bank to be lifted on March 18 New Delhi: The government has notified the Yes Bank reconstruction scheme as per which the moratorium on New Delhi: A 69-year-old woman who tested positive for coronavirus infection has died in New Delhi, the troubled private sector lender will be lifted on March 18. health ministry and Delhi government officials said. Current administrator Prashant Kumar has been appointed managing director and CEO of the newly-recon- The death was caused due to co-morbidity (diabetes and hypertension), it said, adding that she had tested structed board. positive for COVID-19. The Yes Bank Reconstruction Scheme 2020, shall come into force on March 13, the gazette notification said. The woman had been admitted in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, officials said. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had on March 5 put a moratorium on Yes Bank restricting withdrawals to Rs This is the second victim due to coronavirus infection in India, following the death of a 76-year-old man in 50,000 per depositor till April 3.“The order of moratorium on the reconstructed bank issued by the government...shall Kalaburagi, Karnataka on Tuesday. cease to have effect on the third working day at 18:00 hours fron the date of commencement of this scheme,” the notification said. Government raises excise duty COVID-19: 26 passengers from Hyderabad airport on petrol, diesel by Rs 3 per litre admitted to hospital For representational purpose New Delhi: GNS the samples of 339 patients The tax on petrol was INDIAN CHRONICLE BUREAU on the suspicion of being recovered. He will be dis- News Agency, March 14: HYDERABAD, MARCH infected by the coronavirus out of which 304 tested charged soon from the hos- Rs 9.48 per litre when the negative and one tested The Union government Modi government took office 14 on Friday. pital, said hospital authori- today hiked excise duty on positive and the reports of ties earlier this week. On in 2014 and that on diesel As many as 26 passen- Meanwhile, the health petrol and diesel by a steep the remaining persons are Thursday, three persons was Rs 3.56 a litre. gers from Rajiv Gandhi In- authorities also asked 117 Rs 3 per litre each to garner awaited. The patient who who returned from Italy ad- ternational Airport (RGIA) in passengers to self-quaran- about Rs 39,000 crore addi- Officials said the in- tested positive for the virus mitted to the hospital a?er Shamshabad have been tine for 14 days. Ever since tional revenue. This is a re- crease in excise duty will underwent treatment at showing the symptoms of admitted to the various gov- the outbreak of coronavirus, peat of this government's result in an annual increase Gandhi Hospital and has COVID-19. ernment hospitals in the city the officials have collected 2014-15 act of not passing of government revenues by on gains arising from a about Rs 39,000 crore. The slump in international oil gains during the remaining prices. three weeks of the current One more patient test positive for coronavirus fiscal would be less than Rs Retail prices of petrol 2,000 crore. to be COVID-19 positive. For have again urged people to and diesel will not be im- INDIAN CHRONICLE BUREAU a travel history to Italy has further confirmation, the au- avoid taking part in the pub- pacted by these tax changes Petrol and diesel tested positive for COVID- lic gatherings, which will go prices, which are changed HYDERABAD, MARCH 14 thorities have sent their as state-owned oil firms will 19. samples to National Institute a long way in breaking the on a daily basis, were cut by The health officials adjust them against the re- Two more persons, of Virology (NIV), Pune. transmission chain of the cent fall in oil prices and the 13 paise and 16 paise re- here on Saturday have con- novel strain of coronavirus. spectively as oil companies with a similar travel history The health authorities likely trend in the near future, firmed a second case to Italy, are also suspected industry officials said. adjusted the excise duty hike coronavirus. A patient with against the drop in prices months, which helped the in view of the tight fiscal situ- According to a notifi- that warrants from interna- government's excise mop ation. This would help in cation issued by the Central tional rates slumping the up more than double to Rs generating the resources for Board of Indirect Taxes and most since the Gulf war. 2,42,000 crore in 2016-17 development of infrastruc- Explosion in garbage dump, houses damaged Customs, the special excise Petrol now costs Rs from Rs 99,000 crore in ture and other developmen- duty on petrol was hiked by 2014-15. tal items of expenditure, they Rs 2 to Rs 8 per litre in the 69.87 a litre in Delhi; a litre INDIAN CHRONICLE BUREAU of diesel comes for Rs It cut excise duty by Rs said. case of petrol and to Rs 4 a 2 in October 2017 and by Rs Benchmark crude oil HYDERABAD, MARCH 14 litre from Rs 2 in the case of 62.58. 1.50 a year later. But it raised prices have halved since A minor explosion occurred when a few persons set diesel. The government had excise duty by Rs 2 per litre January to USD 32 per bar- ablaze a garbage dump at Shivrampally in Rajendranagar Additionally, road cess between November 2014 and January 2016 raised in July 2019. rel. In sync with this, the on Saturday morning. No persons were injured though was raised by Re 1 per litre Government sources prices of petrol and diesel window panes of a few houses were damaged. each on petrol and diesel to excise duty on petrol and said that while the benefit of have also come down by According to the police, a scrap vendor had dumped Rs 10. diesel on nine occasions to take away gains arising from reduction of crude prices in more than Rs 6 per litre (from some material including paint boxes and chemical boxes With this, the total inci- falling global oil prices. the first quarter of this year Rs 76.01 a litre on January in an open place on Friday evening. dence of excise duty on 11, 2020 to Rs 69.87 a litre has significantly gone to the In the morning, some persons set the trash on fire, petrol has risen to Rs 22.98 In all, duty on petrol rate on March 14 for petrol, and consumer, the Centre has resulting in an explosion. On information the police reached per litre and that on diesel to was hiked by Rs 11.77 per from Rs 69.17 to Rs 62.58 litre and that on diesel by taken this step of increasing the spot. Bomb experts too are conducting an inspection of Rs 18.83. duty to raise some revenue for diesel during the same 13.47 a litre in those 15 period in Delhi). the spot. Infosys evacuates Bengaluru office after staffer RSS calls off annual meeting in comes in contact with COVID19 case Bengaluru amid Coronavirus outbreak Bengaluru: Infosys Bhaiyyaji Joshi today. and other state office bear- evacuated one of its satel- ers of 35 Parivar lite office buildings in The three-day ABPS meeting was scheduled to organisations like VHP (Jus- Bengaluru following reports tice Vishnu Sadashiva Kokje that one of its employee be held in Janaseva Vidya Kendra in Channanahalli in and Alok Kumar), ABVP came in contact with a sus- (Prof Subbaiah pected coronavirus patient. Bengaluru starting March 15. The confluence was ex- Shanmugam), Bharatiya The development pected to see the participa- Mazdoor Sangh (Saji comes after the Karnataka tion of around 1,500 elected Narayanan), Vidya Bharati government advised IT and representatives of RSS and (Ramakrishna Rao), other professionals working associated organisations. Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram in air-conditioned places to Had not cancelled, it would (Jagadev Rao Oraon), BJP work from home for the time had been the seventh ABPS (J P Nadda) and Sakshama being, for about a week, to meet taking place in (Dyal Singh Pawar) were prevent the spread of the vi- New Delhi: GNS Swayamsevak Sangh Karnataka. scheduled to participate in rus. News Agency, March 14: (RSS) on Saturday (March the event., The meeting was to be An internal communi- In view of the serious- 14) cancelled its annual RSS has 11 zones meet of the Akhil Bharatiya conducted by Suresh Joshi, cation from the office here ness of the pandemic Sarkaryvah Rashtriya called 'kshetras' under read, "We have received in- Coronavirus and in the light Pratinidhi Sabha (ABPS) — which 44 work units called the highest decision-mak- Swayamsevak Sangh, in the formation about a situation of instructions and adviso- presence of 'prant' are there for its easy ries issued by the govern- ing body meeting. The an- of a team member from the The Infosys manage- Sarsanghchalak Mohan working, and its officers will the IIPM building as a pre- prepared." ment, the Rashtriya nouncement was made by IIPM building, who may have ment has requested its em- Bhagwat. Also, presidents be part of the meet. been in proximity to an indi- cautionary measure," a com- Three of the six con- RSS general secretary pany official told PTI on Sat- ployees to stay calm as it vidual with suspected was only to ensure that they firmed coronavirus patients COVID-19.