Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced development projects worth Rs 18,000 crore in election bound Uttarakhand before addressing a rally at the Parade Ground here to kickstart the BJP's campaign for the state assembly polls.

He laid the foundation stones of 11 projects worth Rs 15,728 crore and inaugurated seven projects worth Rs 2,573 crore after inspecting their models on display at the rally venue.

With the cyclonic storm, Jawad, expected to make landfall today, Indian Railways has cancelled around 36 trains that were scheduled to depart on December 4.

These mostly include trains that were scheduled to depart from Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Howrah (West Bengal) and Puri (Odisha).

Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan, Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy, Leader of Opposition N Chandrababu Naidu and a host of others on Saturday expressed profound grief over the demise of Konijeti Rosaiah, who served as the CM of the then united AP.

I pray for rest to his soul and offer my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members, the Governor said in a message. Rosaiah became Chief Minister of erstwhile united AP on September 3, 2009, following the death of incumbent Y S Rajasekhara Reddy.

In the next 2-3 years, about 80-90 per cent of footwear major Bata India’s new store additions will be through the franchise route.

There is a huge headroom and opportunity. We see almost 80-90 per cent of our new store additions in the next 2-3 years coming from franchise, said Gunjan Shah, managing director and chief executive officer Bata India, Friday evening, during a fireside chat at the Kolkata Retail Summit (KRS) 2021 organised by The Retailers Association of India (RAI).

After announcing its plans to enter Gurugram, Sweden-based Ingka Group's home furnishings brand Ikea plans to have stores in Delhi as well as Noida.

The company will enter the NCR market via Ingka Centre which will come up in Gurugram.

The centre is a mixed use retail destination which will be anchored by a large format Ikea store and is expected to come up within 3-4 years.

The price of 10 gram of gold decreased by Rs 130 on Saturday, with the yellow metal (24-carat) trading at Rs 47,450 and 22-carat at Rs 46,450.

The price of 1 kg of silver increased by Rs 500 with the precious metal trading at Rs 61,200 on Saturday.

In Delhi, the rate of 24-carat gold stands at Rs 50,840, while in Mumbai the yellow metal's price is at Rs 47,450, according to the Goodreturns website.

Maharashtra State Transport Minister Anil Parab on Friday said that the state government is seriously considering taking action under the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act, in view of the strike called by the employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation.

Speaking to reporters on Friday, Parab said, "There are people who are preventing State Transportation employees from returning to work.

The global coronavirus (Covid-19) caseload has topped 264.89 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.24 million and vaccination to over 8.11 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Saturday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 264,892,562 and 5,242,384 respectively.

The Cyclone Jawad is likely to reach north Andhra Pradesh and south Odisha on Saturday morning and Puri is likely to witness heavy rains on Sunday, said India Meteorological Department (IMD).

According to the Met department, Cyclone Jawad lay centered at 5:30 pm of Friday over westcentral Bay of Bengal, about 300 km south-SE of Vishakhapatnam, 420 km nearly south of Gopalpur, 480 km south-SW of Puri & 560 km south-southwest of Paradip.

Just a day after Star Health and Allied Insurance failed to garner an adequate number of bids, Tega Industries’ initial public offering (IPO) ended with demand for shares exceeding those on offer by a whopping 219 times, indicating that the appetite for initial offers was intact.

Tega Industries received bids for 2.09 billion shares, as against the 9.6-million on offer, with those bids cumulatively worth nearly Rs 95,000 crore.

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