The ongoing lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has brought everyone’s lives to a standstill. Bollywood celebrities are trying to make the most of their quarantine time. They have been sharing regular updates on social media and entertaining their fans. From cooking to doing household chores, even the B-town celebs have been exploring new things at home.

Shahid Kapoor and Mira Rajput are reportedly self-quarantining in Punjab with their kids Misha and Zain. The duo has been making the most of their free time amid the lockdown and spending time with the family.

Bollywood actress Sara Ali Khan is one of the most adored star kids on the block right now.

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan is currently spending time with his family at home due to lockdown imposed to curb the spread of Coronavirus. He has been updating his fans about how he is spending his quarantine period.

After 'Pyar Karona', Salman Khan is all set to release his next song 'Tere Bina' featuring Jacqueline Fernandez. Salman along with Jacqueline, Walusha De Sousa, Aayush Sharma and more stranded at superstar's Panvel farmhouse.

Rishi Kapoor's daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni arrived in Mumbai from Delhi on 3rd May to be with her mother Neetu Kapoor and brother Ranbir Kapoor after the demise of the legendary actor on April 30.

South superstar Vijay Deverakonda, who set the screens on fire with his performance in ‘Arjun Reddy’, is celebrating his 31st birthday today. Post the success of his film, he became a known name all over. After a lot of speculations of him making Bollywood debut, he has finally signed a film opposite Ananya Panday which is directed by Puri Jagannadh.

Pop sensations Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber have teamed up for a song titled as 'Stuck with U' which has been winning over the internet. Touted as the quarantine anthem, the popular singers have come together to raise funds for the children of frontline workers fighting coronavirus.

Sai Pallavi is celebrating her 28th birthday on Saturday (May 9) and on the special occasion, check out some of her eye-popping pics in sarees. She certainly looks like the epitome of elegance and grace in the six-yard staple.

After soaring the temperature with a throwback shirtless picture, Shahid Kapoor has been winning over the internet with his latest post which is a 'quote on happiness' by Pope Francis.

This year Mother’s Day is going to be extra special for everyone. Due to the ongoing lockdown because of coronavirus pandemic, everyone will be spending some extra time with their mothers. Bollywood celebrities too who hardly get the time to be with their families will be able to spend quality time with their dear mommies.

Today, we came across an interesting video where Govinda can be seen shaking his leg with actress Kriti Sanon on his hit song 'Main Toh Raste Se Ja Raha Tha'.

After leaving the audience stunned with a beautiful track 'Pyaar Karona', Salman Khan is all set to release a new song which is titled as 'Tere Bina’, as he had promised to deliver two more songs to the audience.

Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone's sports drama 83 which is directed by Kabir Khan revolves around the true story of India's incredible cricket World Cup victory in 1983.

Bollywood actress Sonakshi Sinha is currently spending time at home due to the lockdown which has been implemented in the country to control the spread of the novel Coronavirus.

Yesterday, Sonam Kapoor celebrated her second anniversary with her husband Anand Ahuja.

Riddhima Kapoor Sahni has been taking to social media and sharing unseen pictures in memory of her late father Rishi Kapoor. While the entire Kapoor clan is still trying to get over the massive loss, Riddhima has managed to travel from Delhi to Mumbai amidst the lockdown to be by her mother's side.

Ranbir Kapoor and his father -- the late Rishi Kapoor -- shared a turbulent relationship.

Official figures say 1.8 lakh workers have returned home to Bihar. Unofficially, however, that figure is said to have crossed 3 lakhs.

'India is ahead only of Pakistan in the amount spent on each soldier a year.'

'Every morning, when I had to step out, my wife would cry.'

Time to look at intriguing flashback pix, posted by Bollywood folk.

Juhi Chawla remembers her co-star Rishi Kapoor.

'It was always 'See you soon', 'Just a routine visit to the hospital', 'I will be back shortly'.'

'When Chintu told me about his plans to go to Delhi in February for a wedding, I advised him against it.'

'It's difficult to explain what a wondrous, beautiful, overwhelming, painful and exciting this journey has been.'

Aseem Chhabra introduces you to the Irrfan you never knew.

A CII survey indicates that the country may experience a protracted slowdown in economic activity.

GST Network Helpdesk on Sunday said it has handled over 56,000 taxpayer issues in one month since the nationwide lockdown was imposed on March 25.

Separately GST Network, the company handling the technology backbone for Goods and Services Tax, cautioned against a fraud website onlinefilingindia.in asking taxpayers not to reveal personal and bank details.

India is looking to shave Rs 25,000 crore off its crude import bill by storing cheap oil in ships for future use, allowing the government fiscal headroom for spending on more public welfare measures needed in its fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

The loan has been disbursed under a refinance scheme by Nabard from its own resources and was given this week. "An amount of Rs 12,767 crore has been disbursed this week to StCBs and RRBs across the country in a bid to augment their resources during the ongoing lockdown conditions for extending credit to farmers," Nabard said.

KV Subramanian said India’s GDP is likely to grow 2 per cent for the full financial year.

Unlike '08, economic impact now is tied to the pandemic and health, so it is far harder to estimate damage.

The cash-strapped government will gain close to Rs 1.6 lakh crore in additional revenues this fiscal from a record increase in excise duty on petrol and diesel, that will help make up for revenue it lost in a slowing economy and shutting down of businesses due to coronavirus lockdown.

With the nationwide lockdown to fight the COVID-19 pandemic restricting inter- and intra-state traffic to essential services, toll collections from build-operate-transfer (BOT) highway projects, and remittances from publicly funded projects would decline sharply in the near term, Crisil report said.

International instances back higher tax liabilities for the rich at times of exigencies.

Several sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, university endowments, limited partners, corporate investors and high net worth individuals have reached out to FPIs and PE fund managers in the last few weeks to convey their decision to partially or fully defer their commitments, people in the know said.

Their period of overstay in India due to lockdown could be exempted, as prescribed by OECD.

On April 17, the AIIB had doubled its initial COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Facility to $10 billion from $5 billion earlier, which made funds available to its members for urgent economic, financial and public health pressures and quick recovery from the crisis.

Following the record hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel, the total incidence of taxation on auto fuels jumped to 70 per cent of the retail price. But the retail prices are not impacted as the hike completely wipes out the fall in crude prices.

Govt will borrow Rs 6L cr from the market via gilts through the remaining part of the first half of the year.

Replying to a letter from NHAI, the ministry said the NHAI in letters dated April 11 and 14 has highlighted reasons for resuming the collection of user fee on national highways, saying that the Ministry of Home Affairs has allowed a lot of activities with effect from April 20, including commercial and private establishments and construction activities.

Besides construction activity, the home ministry has allowed commercial and private establishments to resume operations. Toll collection falls under this category. Interstate and intra-state movement of all trucks and other goods or carrier vehicles has also been allowed.

Sandhu and other top brass of the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have been on an inspection spree of projects, taking the benefit of no traffic on otherwise congested highways. NHAI, an official said, has at least 180 cases in arbitration involving a sum of about Rs 80,000 crore.

The All India Motor Transport Congress (AIMTC), the apex body for transporters that represents about 95 lakh truckers and transport entities, sought suspension of toll till May 3.

National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) as well as highway developers resumed collection at toll plazas. Highways developer IRB Infrastructure Developers said all its Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) "have resumed their toll collection from 00.00 hours today" in line with the NHAI directives.

The ministry of road transport and highways had on Friday asked NHAI to prepare for resumption of toll operations, noting that user fee collection contributes to the government exchequer and also provides financial strength to NHAI in terms of budgetary support.