Covid LIVE: India's cumulative vaccination coverage crosses 1.17 bn-mark

Over 6.3 mn vaccine doses administered on Monday till 7 pm

8:34 PM

India's vaccination update

7:37 PM

Condition of Kamal Haasan is stable: Hospital

7:27 PM

Tamil Nadu sees 750 new Covid cases

6:55 PM

Kerala sees 3,698 new Covid cases

6:51 PM

HC refuses to restrain Malik from publishing tweets about the family of Wankhede

6:36 PM

TMC leader Saayoni Ghosh granted bail

6:07 PM

Maharashtra CM undergoing physiotherapy

5:27 PM

MEA quashes report regarding the chief guest for Republic Day 2022

4:41 PM

Patalpani railway station in Indore to be renamed as Tantya Mama railway station: MP CM

4:04 PM

Rajasthan Govt allocates portfolios

3:22 PM

Kamal Haasan tests positive for Covid

3:12 PM

Co-operative societies can't use 'bank', 'banker' or 'banking' as part of their names: RBI

2:57 PM

Chhattisgarh govt announces a 2% reduction in VAT on diesel and 1% reduction on petrol

1:54 PM

Waterlogging amid heavy rainfall in Bengaluru

1:40 PM

TMC MPs protest outside MHA

1:23 PM

Param Bir Singh gets protection from arrest

Param Bir Singh, missing since October, was granted protection from arrest by the court and asked to join investigations into an extortion case against him.

1:21 PM

Param Bir Singh's life threatened: Lawyer tells SC

Last week, the Supreme Court refused to grant the former top cop protection from arrest and had asked for his location. Param Bir Singh "does not want to abscond and does not want to run anywhere" but faces a threat to his life, his lawyer told the Supreme Court, according to NDTV.com.

12:56 PM

Ericsson to buy cloud firm Vonage for $6.2 bln

Mobile telecoms equipment maker Ericsson said on Monday it had agreed to buy cloud communications firm Vonage for $6.2 billion. The deal was the Swedish firm's biggest in years and follows its acquisition of U.S.-based wireless networking company Cradlepoint for $1.1 billion in 2020, Reuters reported.

12:51 PM

Param Bir Singh is not absconding: Lawyers tells SC

Param Bir Singh, the former Mumbai Police commissioner charged with corruption, is in the country and he is not absconding, his advocate tells the Supreme Court. ANI is reporting this

11:52 AM

5 killed in SUV rampage in Wisconsin

City of Waukesha, Wisconsin, says at least 5 people dead and more than 40 injured after SUV speeds into Christmas parade, the AP reports. The SUV sped through barricades and into a parade of Christmas marchers on Sunday.

11:31 AM

Parts of Bengaluru, Chennai flooded

Bengaluru’s north and a place in northern Chennai are flooded after heavy rains rain in parts of South India on Sunday night, NDTV.com reported. Water entered homes in the Manali suburb of Chennai. Many parts of the neighbourhood in northern Chennai were inundated due to excess discharge from the Kosasthalaiyar river. Water overflowing from Chitoor city in Andhra Pradesh contributed to flooding.

11:14 AM

Fighter pilot recommended for Vir Chakra

10:46 AM

UN warns Afghanistan's banks about to collapse

The United Nations on Monday pushed for urgent action to prop up Afghanistan's banks, warning that a spike in people unable to repay loans, lower deposits and a cash liquidity crunch could cause the financial system to collapse within months. In a three-page report on Afghanistan's banking and financial system seen by Reuters, the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) said the economic cost of a banking system collapse - "would be colossal." 

10:22 AM

New Zealand to end tough coronavirus measures

New Zealand will adopt a new system of living with the virus from December 3, which will end tough coronavirus measures and allow businesses to operate in its biggest city, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a statement on Monday. New Zealand has been unable to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 centred in Auckland, forcing Ardern to abandon her acclaimed elimination strategy and switch to a system of treating the virus as endemic, Reuters reported.

9:46 AM

Paytm stock tumbles again

Shares of digital payments startup Paytm dropped again after the stock plunged 27% in its debut Thursday following a record initial public offering.

The stock fell more than 9% on Monday, pushing its two-day decline to over 30%, before recovering to about 6% lower, said Bloomberg.

9:24 AM

India records 8,488 new cases of Covid

India records 8,488 new cases of Covid-19 in 24 hours: the lowest since May last year, says the health ministry.

9:03 AM

Grenade blast outside Punjab army cantonment

A grenade blast occurred Sunday night outside a gate of the Army cantonment in Pathankot, Punjab, prompting authorities to sound an alert. No casualty was reported. Police said that some unidentified motorcyclists lobbed the grenade in front of the military area, PTI reported.

8:40 AM

Paytm reports two-fold rise in GMV

Paytm on Sunday reported more than two-fold rise in gross merchandise value at Rs 1,95,600 crore in the second quarter that ended on September 30, according to the company's first operating performance report for October.

7:05 AM

20 injured after SUV plows into crowd in USA's Milwaukee

An SUV plowed into a Christmas parade in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha on Sunday, injuring more than 20 people, the city's police chief said.

 

Chief Dan Thompson said the investigation was ongoing, but that a “suspect vehicle” was recovered. Some of the injured were taken by police to hospitals, and others were taken by family members, Thompson said.

5:41 AM

Tirupati flooded, reservoir shows cracks

Tirupati, the temple town in Andhra Pradesh, is flooded and there are fears for its safety after cracks in of the biggest water reservoirs in the state that's located in the district, NDTV.com reported.