Union Home Minister Amit Shah will visit poll-bound West Bengal on Thursday to flag off the party's fifth and final phase of 'Poriborton Yatra'.

In a press statement, BJP Rajya Sabha member and media in-charge Anil Baluni said that during his two-day stay, Shah will flag off the Poriborton Yatra from the Indira Maidan in Kakdwip in South 24 Parganas district on Thursday.

Commercial vehicle major Ashok Leyland has increased the sourcing of clean energy to 60 per cent for its countrywide operations.

Around 75 per cent of its energy consumption in Tamil Nadu and around 60 per cent throughout India is procured through the solar rooftop, solar ground mount, and wind-based renewable energy, the company said.

Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has completed the acquisition of 100 per cent stake of Dighi Port Ltd (DPL) for Rs 705 crore.

DPL, the 12th port to join APSEZ's string of economic gateways across the eastern and western coast of India will establish the company's footprint in Maharashtra, the largest contributor to India's GDP.

Drug major Dr Reddy's Laboratories on Wednesday said it has launched cancer treatment drug Capecitabine tablets in the US market.

The product is a therapeutic equivalent generic version of Xeloda (capecitabine) tablets approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA).

The Apollo Hospitals Group has joined hands with Anatomiz3D Medtech Pvt Ltd for the design and printing of complex implants for domestic and international markets. To start with, the 3D-printing labs will be set up in various Apollo Hospitals for 3D printed implants that would enable doctors to visualise and print implants for complicated cases.

Dr Prathap C Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group said, “It would not be wrong to say that with the hospital 3D-printing labs, the future of healthcare is here! Personalisation of healthcare is the new mantra and advances in genomics and precision medicine are driving personalised prevention and treatment."

In a major victory for Congress, the Congress party on Monday made a clean sweep in seven municipal corporations in Punjab's local body elections. The party managed to win all the corporations where the results were declated.

Results were declared in Moga, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Abohar, Pathankot, Batala, and Bathinda. Notably, Bathinda's result was the most important for the party as it was after 53 years that the party managed to win the city.

The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 109.4 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.41 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Wednesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 109,491,385 and 2,418,543, respectively.

Gold price on Wednesday inched up to Rs 47,230 from Rs 47,000, while silver price rose by Rs 400 to trend at Rs 70,200 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to differing excise duty, state taxes, and making changes in different states.

Twitter on Wednesday announced it is testing voice messages in direct messages (DMs) up to 140-seconds long in India.

The experiment will be rolled out in phases to the audiences, making India one of three countries to have access to the feature, alongside Brazil and Japan.

Amid rising coronavirus COVID-19 cases in the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (February 17) claimed that the Indian government is being grossly negligent and over confident about COVID-19 pandemic. The Wayanad MP warned that the pandemic is not over yet and the Centre must not take it lightly.

"GOI is being grossly negligent and over confident about Covid-19. It’s not over yet," tweeted Rahul Gandhi.

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