Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday noted that the BJP's massive victory in the recently concluded Gujarat Assembly polls will change the "entire political picture", while also confiding that it will have a "positive impact" on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Citing the historic win of the BJP in 2022 in which the party bagged the most number of seats breaking its own and state's best record, Shah said that the results were a testimony of Gujarat being a "stronghold" of the party.

Private equity major Advent International will buy a "significant" stake in Suven Pharmaceuticals Ltd from its promoter Jasti family and consider merging it with a peer in its portfolio, the Indian drugmaker said on Monday.

Suven did not specify a deal value or the stake Advent would acquire but said the private equity firm would also make an additional open offer for around 26% of the outstanding equity shares held by public shareholders.

Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra in the national capital on Saturday.

They were accompanied by Priyanka's husband Robert Vadra.

As the foot-march entered the national capital in the morning, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the BJP and RSS, saying they believe in "spreading hatred" but the common people want "harmony".

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Saturday said RT-PCR test for the detection of COVID-19 would be made mandatory for passengers from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand for their travel to India.

Any passenger from these countries found symptomatic or testing positive for coronavirus would be quarantined.

Surya Roshni has appointed Jitendra Agrawal as the CEO of the lighting and consumer durables business. He will be responsible for driving profitable growth in all areas of the lighting business and building of categories within the consumer durable space, the company said in a statement.

Agrawal joins Surya from Luminous Power Technology Pvt Ltd, (a 100% Subsidiary of Schneider Electric), where he was senior vice president and responsible for the company's home electrical business.

India reported 201 new coronavirus infections, raising the tally to 4.46 crore, while the active cases increased to 3,397, the Union Health Ministry said on Saturday.

The death toll stands at 5,30,691 with one fatality reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am by the ministry stated.

Gold prices witnessed a drop of Rs 600 in early trade on Saturday with ten grams of yellow metal (24-carat) trading at Rs 54,220. Silver prices, on the other hand, remained unchanged and the precious metal was selling at Rs 70,100 per kg.

Ten gram of 22-carat gold was selling at Rs 49,700 after the price fell by Rs 550 from yesterday's close, according to the GoodReturns website.

Hotels and restaurants have stepped up vigil and some have asked their staff to wear masks and gloves to keep the Covid virus at bay.

“We have once again placed sanitizers at restaurant entrances. Our staff members have been advised to wear masks during peak hours. These are proactive and precautionary measures,” said Anurag Katriar, founder of Indigo Hospitality, which runs eight restaurants in Mumbai.

E-commerce giant Flipkart and PhonePe on Friday announced the full ownership separation of the digital payments platform, setting the two businesses to chart their own paths and unlocking enterprise value for shareholders.

A partial separation was announced in December 2020. The PhonePe Group was acquired by the Flipkart Group in 2016 and is now India's largest digital payments platform.

The health ministry on Friday approved Bharat Biotech's intranasal Covid-19 vaccine for inclusion in the vaccination programme as a booster dose for those above 18 years of age. The needle-free vaccine will be available at private centres. It will be introduced on the Co-WIN platform on Friday evening.

The nasal vaccine -- BBV154 -- received approval from the Drugs Controller General of India in November for restricted use in an emergency for those above 18 as a heterologous booster dose.

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