Newspaper Headlines: PM Modi Launches New "Transparent Taxation" Platform & Other Top Stories
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Hindustan Times: India tested in excess of 800,000 samples for the coronavirus disease on Wednesday, inching closer to its target of conducting a million tests a day. PM Modi unveiled India's first charter of taxpayers' rights and duties and issued a national appeal ahead of the 74th Independence Day for introspection by citizens on the fact that only 15 million people in a population of 1.3 billion pay income tax. -
The Asian Age: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a platform to honour the honest taxpayers of the country. He said that it will be a new milestone in the structural reforms initiaited by the government. A day before the Assembly session begins in Rajasthan, Sachin Pilot and Ashok Gehlot shook hands in a moment, marking the return of the sacked deputy chief minister and 18 other dissident MLAs to the party. -
The Telegraph: A sizeable portion of the private hospital bills of insured Covid-19 patients who have not taken a virus-specific policy is now made up of "non-medical" expenses like the cost of PPE kits, facemasks, gloves and hand-sanitisers that are not covered by the insurance agencies. The government is considering the possibility of allowing students pursuing research in foreign universities who have had to return to India during the pandemic to use laboratories in institutions funded by the Centre for the time being.
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