The Income Tax department on Friday said it has issued refunds worth Rs 88,652 crore to over 24 lakh taxpayers so far this fiscal.

This include personal income tax (PIT) refunds amounting to Rs 28,180 crore issued to over 23.05 lakh taxpayers and corporate tax refunds amounting to Rs 60,472 crore to over 1.58 lakh taxpayers during this period.

After Supreme Court had asked transfer of Sushant Singh Rajput's death case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the Special Investigation Team of the central agency arrived in Mumbai on Thursday (August 20, 2020) evening (at 7.30 pm). They are currently staying at the DRDO guest house in Santacruz. The team has finalized the strategy for the investigation.

CBI Superintendent of Police Nupur Prasad, who is leading the team, has formed three teams to take the investigation forward, said sources.

A fire broke out at an underground hydroelectric power station situated at Srisailam's Dam Left Bank canal in Telangana's Nagarkurnool district.

The fire was followed by an explosion and is said to have taken place late on Thursday.

Initial reports suspect short circuit to be the cause of the fire.

At least twenty people were affected after an ammonia gas leak at a milk dairy unit at Bandapalli in Putalapattu Mandal in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor on Thursday

All of them are said to be females and have been shifted to hospital.

Just after the incident was reported, District collector Narayan Bharath Guptha and Superintendent of Police Sendhil Kumar immediately reached the location to monitor the situation.

Former US Vice President Joe Biden has formally accepted the Democratic Party's presidential nomination to take on incumbent President Donald Trump in the November 3 election.

His acceptance speech came on the last day of the four-day Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, which also marked 33 years since he made his first bid for the White House, reports ABC News.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking the Central Government reconsider its decision to privatise the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport.

In a two-page letter to Modi after a meeting of all political parties, Vijayan said that since the state government has rendered assistance to the airport wholeheartedly, including providing land on various stages, the Kerala government has the rightful claim on the management and operation of Trivandrum International Airport.

US President Donald Trump's former top adviser Stephen Bannon was arrested on Thursday and charged for his role in defrauding thousands of donors in connection with an online crowdfunding campaign to build Mexico border wall, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.

The campaign We Build the Wall raised more than US $25 million.

Marking a year of the Chandrayaan-2 integrated module having been inserted into lunar orbit, the Indian space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released its initial set of technical and mission data. The agency said that though the soft-landing of the Lander was unsuccessful, the orbiter has completed 4400 orbits around the moon and all eight on-board instruments are performing well.

While the orbiter was meant to stay operational for one year, ISRO says that it has enough fuel for remaining in orbit for seven years.

Gold prices skidded to Rs 53,394 per 10 gram on Thursday following decline in the international prices of precious metal while silver prices also dropped to Rs 67,072 per kg, according to Indian Bullion and Jewellers Association.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

Domestic banks feature in the list of corporations that are tracked by maximum number of analysts globally.

Topping the chart is Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, tracked by 64 analysts. Private sector lenders Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank, and ICICI Bank are among the top six most-tracked, with at least 56 analysts giving their views on their stocks.

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