Even as it celebrated 75 years of its foundation on Sunday, dairy and food major Amul is now being asked to share its success with other cooperative sectors and help them market their products.

Speaking at the 75th foundation year ceremony here, home and cooperation minister Amit Shah said, “Many farmers in other cooperative sectors have shifted to organic products but they do not have a platform to market their goods.

Windmill power generation firm Kirloskar Industries on Saturday reported 79 per cent jump in consolidated net profit from continuing operations at Rs 134.72 crore for September quarter 2021-22 on the back of higher revenue.

The company had posted a net profit from continuing operations at Rs 75.13 crore for the same period last fiscal year, Kirloskar Industries said in a regulatory filing.

Ten gram of 24-carat gold was on Saturday selling at Rs 48,050, same as yesterday’s trading price. Silver was at Rs 64,600 per kg, down Rs 400 from yesterday’s trading price, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery price varies across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday arrived in Dehradun to participate in various events in the state today.

Shah was received by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami at the airport.

Shah will launch 'Ghasiyari Kalyan Yojana' in Dehradun. After this event, he will address the Shantikunj Golden Jubilee Year lecture series in Haridwar at 4 PM today.

With 14,313 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,42,60,470, while the active cases were recorded at 1,61,555, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.

The death toll climbed to 4,57,740 with 549 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

Polling was underway amid tight security in the by-election to the Huzurabad Assembly constituency in Telangana on Saturday.

Polling started at 7 a.m. at 306 polling centres across the constituency in Karimnagar district. Election officials said the process will continue till 7 p.m.

A new study published found that people were over 5 times more likely to have Covid-19 if they were unvaccinated and had a prior infection.

The new study, published on Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), examined more than 7,000 people across nine states who were hospitalized with Covid-19-like illness, Xinhua news agency reported.

Lubes maker Castrol India has reported 9 per cent dip in profit after tax (PAT) at Rs 185.9 crore for the third quarter ended September 2021.

The company had reported a net profit of Rs 204.6 crore in the July-September quarter of previous fiscal.

The finance ministry has invited applications to appoint the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to succeed Ajay Tyagi, whose five-year term comes to an end in February.

Tyagi, a 1984 batch IAS officer of Himachal Pradesh cadre, was appointed as Sebi chairman on March 1, 2017, for a period of three years. Subsequently, he was given a six-month extension and later in August 2020, tenure was extended by 18 months.

PB Fintech, the parent company of online insurance aggregator Policybazaar, has mopped up Rs 2,569 crore through allocation to anchor investors. The company said in a BSE filing late on Friday that the anchor investor (AIs) portion in the public issue of 26,218,079 equity shares has been subscribed at Rs 980 apiece.

Moreover, 33.5 per cent of the total allocation to anchor investors was made to 18 domestic mutual funds through 69 mutual fund schemes.

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