India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on COVID-19 due to the country's higher internet penetration rate, increasing social media consumption and users' lack of internet literacy, according to a new study.

The study, 'Prevalence and Source Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation in 138 Countries', was published in Sage's International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions journal.

Shares of state-owned travel support services company Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) continued at their upward movement as the scrip rallied 9 per cent to hit a new high of Rs 3,746 in intra-day trade on Tuesday.

The stock was quoting higher for the eighth straight trading day, having rallied 37 per cent during the period. With the sharp rally in IRCTC, the stock is now currently trading 1,071 per cent higher over its issue price of Rs 320 per share. IRCTC had made its stock market debut on October 14, 2019.

Tata Steel has commissioned a 5-tonne-per-day (TPD) carbon capture plant at its Jamshedpur Works, making it the country’s first steel company to adopt such a carbon capture technology that extracts carbon-di-oxide directly from blast furnace gas, the company said on Tuesday.

Tata Steel will reuse the captured CO2 on-site to promote the circular carbon economy. The project has been executed with technological support from Carbon Clean, a global leader in low-cost CO2 capture technology.

Ahead of the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh next year, the Congress is contemplating a change in the state unit to tap in the upper caste community, the current chief is from the backward community, sources in the party have said.

The consideration for the change is purely political as the Congress leadership is happy with the work of the state president, but the party has of late realised that it is not in the 'game of the OBC community' as the BJP and Samajwadi Party have occupied that space, sources further said.

Strict action will be taken against those who misbehave with tourists in Rajasthan as the crime will now be included under the category of cognizable offence.

The Rajasthan government on Monday passed the Rajasthan Tourism Business (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the Assembly.

The central banks of India and Singapore will link their digital payment systems for instant, low-cost fund transfers, said the two sides on Tuesday, aiming to finish the project by July 2022.

Linking Reserve Bank’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and Monetary Authority of Singapore’s will be a milestone in the development of infrastructure for cross-border payments, said the Indian central bank in a press statement. The linkage will be reciprocal and won’t need users to get onboarded onto either payment system.

Amid the decline in COVID-19 cases across the country, the number of coronavirus cases has recording a steady increase among children below 10 years, according to data available with the Empowered Group-1 (EG-1). It is to be noted that EG-1 is tasked with formulating the Covid emergency strategy of the country.

According to the data, the share of children in the total active Covid-19 cases has jumped from 2.80% in March this year to 7.04% in August. This means that about of every 100 active Covid cases, around seven are of children.

Team India captain Virat Kohli finally broke silence on the cancelled fifth Test match against England in Manchester, terming the whole incident as Unfortunate. It is to be noted that the fisth Test was called off at the last moment after some members in Team India support staff tested positive for COVID-19.

British media slammed the Indian team for failing to follow the COVID-19 protocols as head coach Ravi Shastri and four other members of the Indian support staff got infected with the coronavirus.

India saw a single-day rise of 25,404 new COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally in the country to 3,32,89,579, while the count of active cases declined to 3,62,207, according to Union health ministry data on Tuesday.

The death toll due to the disease has climbed to 4,43,213, with 339 daily fatalities being recorded, the data updated at 8 am showed.

Shares of Dish TV India were locked in the10 per cent upper circuit limit at Rs 21.31, also its fresh 52-week high on the BSE in Tuesday's session amid considerable stake purchase by Hindustan Times. Dish TV has surged 19 per cent in the last two trading sessions after Hindustan Times bought 20 million shares of the company via the open market on Monday.

On September 13, 2021, Hindustan Times purchased 20 million equity shares, representing 1.16 per cent of total equity Dish TV India for Rs 38.44 crore.

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