In view of the 12-hour bandh called by Left parties to protest against the action by Kolkata Police on their party workers, West Bengal government has announced that no bandh will be observed. According to the state government orders, all state government offices will remain open and employees staying away except for emergency, will result in a pay cut.

Left Front Chairman Biman Bose on Thursday announced a 12-hour West Bengal bandh by the Left and associate parties from 6am on Friday, in protest against the clash that happened between Left, Congress party workers with Kolkata police during a rally to Nabanna in Kolkata.

In a shocking incident, a 25-year-old youth was stabbed to death by four men at a birthday party in Delhi's Mangolapuri area, police said on Thursday.

The victim, Rinku Sharma, allegedly got into a heated argument with the accused who thrashed him before stabbing on Wednesday night. He was taken to the hospital but succumbed to the injuries during the treatment.

At least six people died after icy road surfaces led to a traffic wreck in US' Texas states in which 133 vehicles crashed into each other. The accident occurred in the Fort Worth area in the express lanes of Interstate-35.

As many as 65 people were injured, who were taken to the hospitals for treatment, as per news agency Reuters.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines (SIA) began operating flights on Thursday with full sets of crew members vaccinated against COVID-19 as the city-state seeks to rejuvenate its status as an international travel hub.

The airline said pilots and cabin crew on three international flights from Singapore had received both of the required doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Petrol price on Thursday touched a record high of Rs 87.85 in the national capital, two days after breaching the Rs 87-a-litre mark.

Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 25 and 30 paise per litre respectively on Thursday, according to a price notification from oil marketing companies.

India's COVID-19 tally has climbed to 1,08,71,294 with 12,923 fresh cases reported in a day, while the number of recoveries has surged to 1,05,73,372, the health ministry said on Thursday.

The death toll in the country due to the viral disease has gone up to 1,55,360 with 108 more people succumbing to it, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.

ArcelorMittal reinstated its dividend and named Aditya Mittal as its new chief executive officer as a rebounding steel market helped it shrug off the impact of the pandemic.

Steel demand -- a key barometer for global economic growth -- will increase by 4.5 per cent to 5.5 per cent this year, the company said Thursday in its full-year earnings statement.

When State bank of India (SBI), with nearly 20-25 per cent market share, records a beat on its quarterly earnings, especially amid a global pandemic, the feat is sure to invite re-rating from analysts.

The series of price-target upgrades continued for the sixth consecutive quarter for the state-owned lender as it reported a 7 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 5,196 crore for quarter ended December 2020.

YES Bank intends to stay away from large corporate businesses as it looks to rebuild its loan book in the mid- and small-corporate segment, according to Managing Director and CEO Prashant Kumar.

Kumar acknowledged YES Bank had, like some of its peers, seen increased stress in its retail segment, which had touched nearly 3 per cent in this financial year compared with 1 per cent during pre-coronavirus times, but said things were improving.

Amazon.com Inc has mounted a legal challenge against its partner Future Group's $3.4 billion retail assets sale in India's Supreme Court, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, marking the US firm's latest effort to block the deal.

Amazon, locked in legal disputes with Future, alleges the Indian firm violated contracts by agreeing to sell its retail assets to Reliance Industries last year. Future denies any wrongdoing.

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