The Trinamool Congress on Sunday constituted a committee to review the party's dismal performance in the recently held assembly elections in Goa, where it drew a blank.

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, in a statement, said that the party will convene a series of internal review meetings to introspect its role in Goa.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday urged North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to impose a no-fly zone over his country or see its member states attacked by Russia.

In his virtual address on Monday, Zelenskyy said: I reiterate that if you do not close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles fall on your territory, on NATO territory, on the homes of NATO citizens.

Karnataka recorded zero Covid deaths in the last 24 hours, marking the first time since June 5, 2020 that the state has registered no fatalities, according to the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

The Department said that although the Covid case numbers decreased drastically, it took some time for the fatalities to reduce.

Mountainous regions are dotted with tough geographical terrain where quality railways are a blessing to remain connected to the mainland. In Kashmir, the rail route owes its complexity to the dangerous rugged geography of the Himalayas. But the engineering marvel of the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL) has stunned the nation with its extraordinary approach in building its main - T-49 tunnel in an impossible terrain.

The last few years witnessed slow progress in the project due to the pandemic but with its expert team today tunnel T-49 has surpassed the 11.2-km long Pir Panjal Tunnel on the Banihal-Qazigund section of the Kashmir Railways Project.

India saw a further dip in daily COVID-19 cases as 2,503 new infections were recorded, the lowest since May, 2020, while the active cases dipped to 36,168, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

With the fresh cases, the total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,29,93,494.

The death toll climbed to 5,15,877 with 27 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.

Shares of sugar companies continued their upward movement rallying up to 18 per cent on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade due to heavy volumes on strong outlook.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said top officials of automobile companies have promised him that they will start manufacturing vehicles of flex-fuel variants within six months. Flex-fuel, or flexible fuel, is an alternative fuel with a combination of gasoline and methanol or ethanol.

The Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), a unit of the CIL, has crossed 157 million tonne (MT) in coal production in the financial year of 2021-22, to become the leading coal producing company in the country, a release said.

On March 12, 2022, the company produced 7.62 lakh tonne of dry fuel which is the highest in a day during the current financial year reaching 157.7 MT with a growth of around 16 per cent over the last financial year, the company release said.

Shares of Ruchi Soya Industries were locked at 20 per cent upper circuit at Rs 964.40 on the BSE on Monday after the edible oil firm announced that it will launch its follow-on public offer on March 24. The issue will close on March 28, 2022.

The company, which is owned by Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved, proposed to raise up to Rs 4,300 crore. A follow-on offering is an issuance of additional shares made by a company after an initial public offering.

Though no medically recognized treatment exists for Long COVID, a new study suggests that exercise might break the vicious cycle of inflammation that can lead to developing diabetes and depression months after a person recovers from the virus.

The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews'.

Mohsen Khojasteh Mehr, head of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), has said that his country is ready to supply the required oil for the world market and stabilise prices.

The government has made every effort to regain Iran's oil share in the market and to increase it, Xinhua news agency quoted Mehr as saying to local media.

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