Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday raked up yet another controversy as he referred slain terrorist and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden as a shaheed (martyr) while addressing the National Assembly.

Bin Laden was killed by US Navy Seals in Pakistan's Abbottabad in May, 2011.

Shares of General Insurance Corporation of India (GIC RE) surged as much as 8.5 per cent to Rs 165.75 on the BSE on Thursday after the company's net profit jumped 98 per cent to Rs 1,197 crore in Q4FY20 compared to 603 crore in the same period a year ago due to lower tax provisions.

The reinsurer’s pre-tax profit for the March quarter stood at Rs 1,101 crore compared to Rs 1,194 crore in Q4FY19.

Hospital administrators and health care experts warned desperately Wednesday that parts of the US are on the verge of becoming overwhelmed by a resurgence of the coronavirus, lamenting that politicians and a tired-of-being-cooped-up public are letting a disaster unfold.

The US recorded a one-day total of 34,700 new Covid-19 cases, just short of the nation's late-April peak of 36,400, according to the count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

Price of diesel has crossed Rs 80 mark for the first time in Delhi. On Thursday, the price of diesel in the city was reported to be Rs 80.02 a litre, up 14 paise, while that of petrol increased by 16 paise to Rs 79.92 a litre.

The price of diesel continued to be higher in the city for a second straight day on Thursday. This was for as 19th day in a row that fuel prices saw no downward trend in India. In Mumbai, the price of petrol touched Rs 86.7 a litre and diesel went up to Rs 78.34 a litre.

State-run GAIL (India) has posted 62 per cent increase in its consolidated profit before tax (PBT) in Q4 of 2019-20 (FY20) ended March to Rs 3,598.7 crore, compared to Rs 2,226.8 crore during the same period last year.

The consolidated revenue for the period under review has seen a decline by 6 per cent, from Rs 19,078.3 crore during the January-March quarter of 2018-19 (FY19) to Rs 17,938 crore in the fourth quarter of FY20.

As today marks the 45th anniversary of the nationwide emergency that was imposed in 1975 during the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenure, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday launched an attack on Congress party, saying that one family's greed for power led to the imposition of emergency.

In a series of tweets, Shah said that the nation was turned into a prison overnight and atrocities were committed on the poor and downtrodden.

As the coronavirus pandemic still shows no sign of stopping with cases expanding rapidly every single day, Delhi now has overtaken Mumbai in terms of the total number of COVID-19 cases.

As of June 24, Delhi recorded 3,788 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total COVID-19 tally to over 70,000, thus overtaking Mumbai in the process.

Two terrorists were gunned down by security forces on Thursday in the Hardshiva area of Sopore district of North Kashmir's Baramullah.

An encounter broke out in the morning between the security forces and militants in the region.

According to an officer of the Jammu and Kashmir Police, a tip-off was received about the presence of terrorists in the area following which an operation was launched late night.

A special Air India flight carrying 224 Indian nationals including infants departed from Washington DC to New Delhi on Wednesday under the Vande Bharat Mission, the initiative launched to repatriate Indians stranded abroad due to COVID-19 travel restrictions.

The flight from Washington DC bound for Delhi has taken off with 224 passengers including infants. We thank the tireless efforts of @airindiain in Washington DC and the team, the Embassy of India in Washington DC said in a tweet.

The government on Wednesday said the due date for filing income tax return this year will be November 30 as time limits have been extended on various statutory and regulatory compliance requirements further in view of the challenges faced by taxpayers due to the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The government had earlier brought the Taxation and Other Laws (Relaxation of Certain Provisions) Ordinance, 2020 on March 31 to extended various time limits. The decision was taken as people were facing issues in meeting the statutory and regulatory compliance requirements across sectors due to COVID-19 pandemic.

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