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Merck asks US FDA to authorise promising anti-Covid pill

If cleared by the Food and Drug Administration a decision that could come in a matter of weeks it would be the first pill shown to treat Covid

Union Minister's son arrested for Lakhimpur Kheri violence, to face court

Ashish Mishra appeared before the police's special investigation team and was questioned for 11 hours.

Taliban say they won't work with US to contain Islamic State

Senior Taliban officials and U.S. representatives are to meet Saturday and Sunday in Doha, the capital of the Persian Gulf state of Qatar.

Taliban official: At least 100 dead, wounded in Afghanistan mosque bombing

There was no immediate claim for the blast

Sensex regains 60,000 after RBI retains accommodative stance

Rate-sensitive banking and realty indices ended in the red, but auto closed with gains

Ola Electric is raising another $200 mn at over $5 bn valuation: Sources

On September 30, Ola had announced raising over $200 mn in funding from Falcon Edge, SoftBank and others, valuing it at $3 bn

NCLT admits RBI's applications to initiate IBC proceedings against Srei

NCLT appointed Rajneesh Sharma as an administrator of the Srei Group firms

Tata Sons makes winning bid of Rs 18,000 cr for Air India: Govt

The bid got approved by a group of ministers headed by Home Minister Amit Shah on October 4, said DIPAM Secretary

Google to ban ads appearing next to climate denial content

The new rules will prohibit ads for, and monetisation of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change

NCLT committed error by not granting more time to Zee to file reply: NCLAT

NCLT order directing Zee to reply within two days violated principles of natural justice, said NCLAT

Cabinet approves bonus equal to 78 days' wage for 1.1 mn railway employees

An expenditure of nearly Rs 1,985 crore will be incurred on this.

Nobel in chemistry honours pair for new way to make molecules

German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W C MacMillan of Princeton University won the prize

Saudi Aramco hits $2-trn valuation on back of higher oil prices

Demand for energy is picking up, despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic's continued toll on travel and other key gas-guzzling sectors.

Facebook blames outage on error during routine maintenance

The problem occurred as engineers were carrying out day to day work on Facebook's global backbone network

Investors' wealth erodes by Rs 2.57 trn as stock markets tumble

Indian equities opened positive but gave in to profit-booking in second half following weak global cues, says an analyst

Global shares slip in cautious trading, shrug off US rally

Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 sank 1.1% to finish at 27,528.87 for its eighth straight session of losses.

Cabinet approves Rs 4,445-cr PM MITRA Yojana to set up 7 mega textile parks

The PM MITRA will be developed by a special purpose vehicle owned by state governments and the central government in PPP mode

WHO says number of new coronavirus infections fell last week

WHO also said nearly a third of African countries managed to vaccinate at least 10 per cent of their populations by the end of September

France's Macron wants G20 to pressure Taliban to give girls a future

So far under the Taliban, young Afghan girls have been allowed to return to primary school but older girls have been barred from going to high school

Indian cricket hero named in data leak on offshore dealings of superrich

A worldwide journalistic partnership quoting leaked documents called the Pandora Papers claims to have uncovered financial secrets of powerful figures in 91 countries, including India.