Tata Power on Thursday said its arm TP Saurya has received a 'Letter of Award' from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) for setting up a 300 MW hybrid (wind & solar) project.

TP Saurya Ltd (TPSL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Power, has received this Letter of Award (LoA) in a bid announced by MSEDCL, a company statement said.

IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) on Thursday announced that Plaza Premium Group (PPG), a global airport hospitality services provider based in Hong Kong, has selected it to develop an end-to-end digital platform that will improve customer experience and operational excellence at its 70 airport locations that serve 20 million passengers annually.

The long-term partnership focuses on reimagining the end-to-end airport travel experience across three core areas: customer experience, employee experience and operational excellence. The financial details of the deals were not disclosed.

The global coronavirus (Covid-19) caseload has topped 272 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.32 million and vaccinations to over 8.54 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 272,146,742 and 5,328,975, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered has increased to 8,547,694,355.

Shares of Tega Industries continued to witness selling pressure for the third straight day, after its strong debut. The stock was trading 2 per cent lower at Rs 602.90, falling 5 per cent from its intra-day high on the BSE on Thursday. The stock of industrial machinery company slipped 21 per cent from its listing day high of Rs 767.10 on December 13, 2021. Despite of the three-day decline, the stock continues to command a 33 per cent premium to its issue price of Rs 453 per share.

Shares of Borosil Renewables hit a new high of Rs 722.85, up 5 per cent on the BSE in Thursday's intra-day trade on the back of heavy volumes. The stock of the flat glass manufacturer were trading higher for the fifth straight day, surging 28 per cent during the period.

Trading volumes on the counter more-than-doubled as a combined 1.16 million equity shares, representing 0.88 per cent of total equity of Borosil Renewables, changed hands on the NSE and BSE till 10:01 am.

National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) has awarded a standalone fuel-cell based Green Hydrogen Microgrid Project at Simhadri in Andhra Pradesh, informed the Ministry of Power on Wednesday.

According to the Power Ministry, this will be India's first green hydrogen-based energy storage project and one of the world's largest.

Four more cases of Covid-19 variant Omicron have been confirmed in Kerala, state Health Minister Veena George said on Wednesday night.

With this the total cases of the variant in Kerala has reached 5 and in India — 73.

Speaking to reporters here, the minister said two of the four news cases were the wife and mother-in-law of the Ernakulam native who was the first person in Kerala to test positive for Omicron.

India logged 6,984 coronavirus infections, taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 3,47,10,628 while the active cases declined to 87,562, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.

The death toll climbed to 4,76,135 with 247 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The daily rise in new coronavirus infections has been recorded below 15,000 for the last 48 days now.

The SIT of the UP police that is probing the Lakhimpur Kheri violence has submitted before a court that the killing of four farmers and a journalist in which Union minister Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra is among the 13 accused was a "pre-planned conspiracy", and also sought to substitute lesser charges in the case with graver ones.

After hearing arguments on the application moved by the Special Investigation Team(SIT), Lakhimpur Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Chinta Ram on Tuesday allowed it to add IPC sections 307(attempt to murder) and 326 (voluntarily causing injuries by dangerous weapons) in the FIR in which Ashish Mishra is the main accused, Senior prosecution officer SP Yadav told PTI.

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) said that Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral pill mark a significant step forward in the path out of the pandemic.

I am encouraged by the promising data released by Pfizer today, showing that its antiviral pill is effective at reducing the risk of severe illness in people infected with COVID-19. This news provides another potentially powerful tool in our fight against the virus, including the Omicron variant, read a statement from the President on Pfizer's COVID-19 antiviral pill.

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