The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre and others on a plea seeking directions for disclosure of data regarding clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines.

A bench of justices L Nageswara Rao and Hrishikesh Roy issued notice on the plea, and asked the Centre and others to respond to it within four weeks.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release the next instalment of financial benefit under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) scheme on Monday at 12:30 PM via video conferencing.

This will enable the transfer of an amount of more than Rs 19,500 crores to more than 9.75 crores beneficiary farmer families. Prime Minister will interact with farmer beneficiaries during the event and will also address the nation, read the official release by the Prime Minister's Office.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital on Monday to discuss the Assam-Mizoram border issue.

The Assam Chief Minister, accompanied by BJP MPs from Assam, is likely to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the border dispute with the neighboring state Mizoram.

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 202.6 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.29 million and vaccinations soared to over 4.33 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Monday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll stood and vaccination tally stood at 202,661,707, 4,293,555 and 4,339,912,422, respectively.

The price of 10 gm of 22-carat gold on Monday fell by Rs 10 to trade at Rs 45,690 from Rs 45,700 a day earlier. Silver was selling at Rs 65,000 per kg: unchanged from yesterday, according to the website Good Returns.

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

Shares of Laurus Labs hit a record high of Rs 705.95, up 4 per cent on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Monday, having rallied 17 per cent in the past seven trading days, after the company announced the financial results for the first quarter of financial year 2021-22 (Q1FY22).

The stock of pharmaceutical company surpassed its previous high of Rs 698 touched on June 29, 2021 amid a positive outlook across all four businesses -- FDF, APIs, Synthesis and Bio -- by the management. It believes the outlook remains robust driven by improving demand and supported by capacity expansion plans planned.

On August 14, Tamil Nadu will will become the second state after Andhra Pradesh to have a separate agricultural budget. While experts believe that this is nothing more than a political move, data available from Andhra Pradesh indicates that such a move might actually boost the sector.

The tradition of having an exclusive budget for agriculture was started by Andhra Pradesh in 2012-13, in order to give a focused approach to the sector, terming it as a policy paper on agriculture.

Johnson and Johnson’s single-dose Covid vaccine has been given approval for emergency use in India, announced Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Twitter on Saturday.

Now India has 5 EUA vaccines. This will further boost our nation's collective fight against #COVID19, tweeted Mandaviya.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday said that 8,832 people have been rescued from the flood-affected parts of the state, while 29,280 others have been shifted to safer places from these areas so far.

He made the statement while addressing 'Anna Utsav' programme in the morning.

As many as 80 crore Indians got free ration during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.

These include five crore people from Madhya Pradesh, Modi said, during a video interaction with Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana beneficiaries from the state.

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