Daily News Monitor: 24 March 2020

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HEADLINES:

1. Finance Bill passed: Scope for fuel tax widened, ‘NRI tax’ limited

2. Government expenditure system declared as essential service

3. PM asks India Inc to maintain production lines of essential commodities, prevent black marketing amid coronavirus fight

4. India's e-commerce sector comes to halt due to lockdowns

5. India to suspend domestic flights, seeks to lock down coronavirus spread

6. Internet speed may slow down on high traffic owing to Coronavirus lockdown

7. Coronavirus Fallout: Government puts key economic surveys on hold

8. As 90,000 NRIs return home, Punjab seeks funds to build Covid-19 isolation wards

9. China ready to help India in Covid-19 fightback, shares info over video link

10. Coronavirus locks down 30 states, over 500 districts affected: Key developments

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