The global coronavirus caseload has topped 238.2 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.85 million and vaccinations soared to over 6.49 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and the total number number of vaccine doses administered stood at 238,237,900, 4,856,841 and 6,492,184,851, respectively.

HCL Technologies on Monday said it has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to jointly launch healthcare and life sciences

solutions for customers.

This partnership will deliver the best of HCL and Google Cloud's deep health care and life sciences domain capabilities and investments through co-innovation and address the shifts in the industry, a statement said.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have moved telecom tribunal to challenge Telecom Department's demand notices for payment of Rs 3,050 crore cumulative penalties in the points of interconnect matter, a source said.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had recently issued demand notices to both the telcos to pay cumulative Rs 3,050 crore in penalties in three weeks' time for violating norms by denying Reliance Jio points of interconnect (PoIs) way back in 2016.

Diesel price on Monday breached the Rs 100-a-litre mark in Kerala and Karnataka as fuel prices were hiked yet again to align domestic rates with firming international oil prices.

Petrol price was hiked by 30 paise per litre and diesel by 35 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

With the shortage of coal leading to power cuts in various states, the Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) leader and Superstar, Kamal Haasan has urged the Central and the state government to ensure that there is no power cut in Tamil Nadu.

In a statement on Sunday, the actor-turned-politician said both Central and the state government must work together to make sure that there was no shortage of coal in Tamil Nadu.

The Delhi government has to depend on costly gas- based power as well as spot purchase at high market rate as the NTPC has halved power supply to the city from the usual 4000 MW, Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain said on Monday.

Most of the National Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) plants are running at 55 percent capacity as their coal stocks are enough for one-two days, he claimed.

Shares of State Bank of India (SBI) rallied 4 per cent to hit a record high of Rs 475 on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade on the back of heavy volumes. The stock of the state-owned banking giant surpassed its previous high of Rs 471.85 touched on September 17, 2021.

The trading volumes on the counter more-than-doubled with a combined 18.19 million equity shares having changed hands on the NSE and BSE till 02:46 pm. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 0.40 per cent at 60,297 points.

KPMG expects digital companies in India to raise about $10 billion through initial public offerings in the next six months, as investors continue to pump money into the country’s technology sector.

India is unveiling an absolutely new area of growth with these digital companies for hungry global asset managers, Srinivas Balasubramanian, senior partner and head of corporate finance at KPMG India, told Bloomberg Television’s Rishaad Salamat and Haslinda Amin in an interview.

Shares of Tata Motors hit an over three-year high of Rs 415.30 as they rallied 8.5 per cent on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade, continuing their journey northward on the back of a strong growth outlook. The stock of the Tata Group commercial vehicles maker was trading at its highest level since January 2018. In the past one month, the market price of Tata Motors has soared 39 per cent, as compared to a 3.5 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.

At 10:52 am, Tata Motors was trading 7.7 per cent higher at Rs 412.50, against a 0.42 per cent gain in the benchmark index.

Shares of Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd made a muted market debut on Monday, listing at par with its issue price of Rs 712.

The stock listed at Rs 712 on BSE. Later, it touched a high of Rs 721 and low of Rs 700.

On NSE, it debuted at Rs 715, a marginal gain of 0.42 per cent from the issue price.

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