Shares of Canara Bank hit an over four-year high of Rs 338.30, up 1 per cent on the BSE in Monday's intra-day trade, on expectation of strong earning ahead alogn with stable outlook. The stock of the state-owned lender was trading at its highest level since February 2018.

In the past six months, it has zoomed 83 per cent as compared to 15 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex. In the past one week, it has rallied 10 per cent as against a marginal 0.40 per cent gain in the benchmark index.

The price of gold remained unchanged during Monday's early trade with ten grams of 24 carat gold trading at Rs 55,200, according to the GoodReturns website. The price of silver also remained unchanged with 1 kg of the precious metal trading at Rs 71,300.

Ten grams of 22 carat gold is selling at Rs 50,600.

Torrent Power is in talks with ReNew Energy Global to buy green power plants totalling 1.1 gigawatts (GW) for $1.2 billion, a report by Mint said. The Ahmedabad-based company has submitted a non-binding offer (NBO) for ReNew's solar and wind assets of 350 and 450 Mw for $450 million.

Media reports in November 2022 stated ReNew's plan to sell its operational, clean energy capacity as part of its capital recycling strategy. The proceeds will be reinvested in building new green energy assets.

Haryana Roadways on Friday honoured its driver Sushil Kumar and conductor Paramjeet for rescuing cricketer Rishabh Pant who met with a car accident on the Delhi-Dehradun highway near Roorkee on Friday.

Rishabh Pant met with an accident while returning from Delhi to Roorkee as his car collided with the divider on the Narsan border of Roorkee near Hammadpur Jhal.

New Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is estimated to account for 40.5 per cent of Covid-19 cases in the US in the week ending December 31, nearly doubling from the previous week, according to data updated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

XBB.1.5 made up 21.7 per cent of the total cases in the previous week ending December 24, Xinhua news agency reported.

Highlighting Andhra Pradesh as a favoured destination for investment, state Industries Minister Gudivada Amarnath on Friday said investment worth Rs 73,000 crore has been brought in the state in the last three years.

Addressing a press conference, Minister Amarnath said that Jagan Mohan Reddy government gave impetus to the industrial sector which was neglected by the previous governments in the state.

Ahead of the Tripura assembly elections due early next year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to flag off BJP's 'Rath Yatra' in the state on January 5, a party leader said on Friday.

The eight-day yatra will be flagged off from North Tripura district's Dharmanagar, he said.

In a significant achievement strengthening the country's health infrastructure, India has surpassed a notable landmark, as 150,000 Ayushman Bharat Health and Wellness Centres (AB-HWCs) have been operationalised before December 31, the Union Health Ministry said on Friday.

Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya congratulated the nation on this achievement and said that India has successfully achieved the goal it had set out.

The Internet and Mobile Association of India, the industry body representing consumer internet companies, on Friday said that it was "best suited" to form a Self-Regulatory Organisation for online gaming.

As per a gazette notification issued earlier this week, the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) has become the nodal ministry to govern online gaming industry.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Heeraben Modi passed away at the age of 100 years on Friday after being briefly admitted to a hospital in Ahmedabad.

Informing about her demise, the Prime Minister posted a heartfelt tweet saying, "A glorious century rests at the feet of God... In Maa, I have always felt that trinity, which contains the journey of an ascetic, the symbol of a selfless Karmayogi and a life committed to values."

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