Gold price today went up to Rs 51,450 from Rs 51,440 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 59,200 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

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

In an emphatic statement of warship building capability in the private sector, Larsen & Toubro’s Hazira shipyard handed over the last vessel in an order of 54 fast interceptor craft to the Coast Guard on Sunday — ahead of time and within the budget.

With the four public sector shipyards — Mazagon Dock, Mumbai; Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata; Goa Shipyard; and Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam — invariably delivering warships years behind schedule and beyond budget, L&T has staked a powerful claim to be considered for future shipbuilding orders.

Borders areas around National Capital Delhi are witnessing blockades as the farmers’ protests against the Centre’s agricultural Bills continue. Tikri and Singhu (Delhi-Haryana) borders have been closed for any traffic movement, the Delhi Traffic Police said on Monday.

Farmers also stayed put at the Gazipur-Ghaziabad (Delhi-UP) border on Sunday late night and a group of farmers was seen sleeping on the road while others were seen sitting closely in a group around a bonfire in the cold winter night.

A few months before the assembly elections in West Bengal, the rebellion in the ruling Trinamool Congress has started appearing. Before the Assembly elections in Bengal, many Trinamool Congress leaders have started publicly expressing dissatisfaction against the party leadership.

Now TMC MLA Jatu Lahiri from Shibpur in Howrah district has joined this brigade. He has opened a front against the party's advisor Prashant Kishore.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has announced an extension of the general COVID-19 lockdown till midnight Dec 31, 2020 subject to certain relaxations.

In a statement, Palaniswami said that it was decided to extend the lockdown, with new relaxations till Dec 31, based on the discussions with the medical and public health experts, District Collectors to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The Serum Institute of India (SII), which has been conducting trials for its Covishield vaccine, said that it would seek damages of Rs 100 crore from one of its trial candidates. The candidate had alleged side-effects from the vaccine dose.

The Serum Institute of India will seek damages in excess of (Rs) 100 crore for the same and will defend such malicious claims, the Pune-based drugmaker said.

In order to contain the surging COVID-19 caseload in Rajasthan, a night curfew will be imposed within urban limits of 13 district headquarters from December 1 to 31. The state government made this announcement on Sunday night.

The towns of Kota, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Udaipur, Ajmer, Alwar, Bhilwara, Nagore, Pali, Tonk, Sikar and Ganganagar will be under night curfew from 8 pm to 6 am, ANI reported.

Kiran Maheshwari, BJP leader and MLA from Rajasthan's Rajsamand passed away at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram on late Sunday night.

She had earlier tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment at the hospital.

India's coronavirus tally breached the 94-lakh mark after 38,772 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's data on Monday.

The overall coronavirus cases reached 94,31,692 including 4,46,952 active cases and 88,47,600 recoveries. With 443 new deaths, the cumulative toll mounted to 1,37,139.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 61.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.44 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Saturday, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 61,585,651 and 1,441,875, respectively.

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