At least 80 people have been injured in blasts at two Sri Lankan churches and two hotels on Easter Sunday. "Eighty people have already been admitted, and more are still coming in," an official at the Colombo National Hospital told AFP. The hotels and one of the churches are in the nation's capital Colombo. The other church is in Negombo, north of Colombo.

Net employment generation in the formal-sector almost trebled to 8.61 lakh in February compared to 2.87L in the same month of last year, according to the latest EPFO payroll data. The retirement fund body has been releasing payroll data from April-2018, covering the period starting September-2017. The data showed that 80.86L new jobs were created in the 18-months period from September-2017 to February-2019.

The government has extended the last date for filing summary sales return, GSTR-3B, for March month by three-days until April-23. According to the source, "Glitches in GSTN is leading to frequent extensions in the filing of tax-returns. Tax filers also need to improve the habit of filing at the last date, leading to burden on the servers resulting in the collapse of the same."