The highlight of the UN General Assembly session this year, as it marks its 75th anniversary on Monday, will be the participation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in two debates in the high-level segments, India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti on Friday (local time) said.

This time, the UN General Assembly will be historic and in more than one way. As far as India is concerned, the highlight will be the participation of PM Modi in two debates in the high-level segments starting on Monday, Tirumurti was quoted by news agency ANI as saying.

Actress Lizaa Malik has claimed that late actor Sushant Singh Rajput and actress Kriti Sanon might have denied dating each other, but they were very much in a relationship and looked happy together.

Lizaa had a professional relationship with Sushant, and she says she saw him happy in his relationship with Kriti at a birthday party.

Russia has approved R-Pharm's Coronavir treatment for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19 infections and the antiviral drug could be rolled out to pharmacies in the country as soon as next week, the company said on Friday.

Coronavir's approval as a prescription drug follows the green light for another Russian COVID-19 drug, Avifavir, in May. Both are based on favipiravir, which was developed in Japan and is widely used there as the basis for viral treatments.

After being removed from the Google Play Store on Friday evening over 'policy violation', leading digital payments platform Paytm was back on the Google platform. It also said that it has temporarily removed the cashback component from the cricket league on its platform in an effort to meet the Google Play Store policy requirements.

The clarification came after Google pulled down the Paytm app from its Play Store for allegedly violating its gambling policies.

Dubai authorities have banned all Air India Express flights for 15 days for carrying a passenger who has been diagnosed with Covid-19.

Following the ban, Air India Express has rescheduled all Dubai bound flights to Sharjah, an airline spokesperson said. The passenger was carried on the Jaipur-Dubai flight on 4 September.

The rupee strengthened by 33 paise to 73.33 against the US dollar in opening trade on Friday as weak American currency and positive domestic equities buoyed investor sentiment.

At the interbank forex market, the domestic unit opened at 73.47 against the US dollar, then gained further ground and touched 73.33, registering a rise of 33 paise over its previous close.

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a petition by State Bank of India, the nation’s largest lender, to allow a personal bankruptcy case against tycoon Anil Ambani to resume.

A three-judge panel headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao ruled that the bankruptcy case against the former billionaire will remain suspended and directed the Delhi High Court to decide on Ambani’s challenge to provisions of India’s insolvency law.

Taking benefit of space vacated by many lenders in wholesale lending, Tata Capital, with three NBFCs under its wings, is looking to step up the corporate finance business by lending more to better-rated companies.

It is also looking at prospects for Alternate Investment Funds (AIF) to finance corporates as it consumes less capital and provides flexibility to structure deals.

India's COVID-19 case tally crossed 52 lakh-mark with a spike of 96,424 new cases and 1,174 deaths in the last 24 hours, said Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare on Friday.

The total case tally in the country stands at 52,14,678 including 10,17,754 active cases, 41,12,552 cured/discharged/migrated and 84,372 deaths.

A farmers' body on Thursday announced to hold 'rail roko' agitation from September 24 to September 26 to lodge their protest against the three agriculture ordinances passed by the Union Cabinet.

We have decided to hold a rail roko agitation from September 24 to 26 against the three agriculture ordinances, said Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee General Secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher.

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