India logged 135 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases increased marginally to 3,559 from 3,552, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Monday.

The Covid case tally was recorded at 4.46 crore (4,46,76,087).

The death toll stands at 5,30,674 with two fatalities reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am stated.

In the next five years, the Centre will build a 1,748 km long "frontier highway" close to the India-Tibet-China-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh. It will be as close as 20 km from the international border, a report by the Times of India (TOI) said.

The two-lane highway, NH-913, will aim to stop infiltration in the border areas and will be built by the transport ministry.

Koo -- the Made-in-India rival of Twitter -- has offered to migrate all historic tweets of any Twitter user willing to shift to its platform that will continue to not charge users for verification badge, its co-founder and CEO Aprameya Radhakrishna said.

Since taking over Twitter in a USD 44 billion deal in October, Elon Musk has sacked its employees, overhauled its moderation policies, put a price for account verification, and restored previously banned accounts including that of former US President Donald Trump.

Auto component maker Shriram Pistons & Rings on Friday said its unit will acquire a majority stake in electric motor design and manufacturing firm EMF Innovations to foray into the electric vehicle mobility space.

SPR Engenious Ltd (SEL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company, is slated to acquire the stake.

After receiving in-principle approval for inducting B777 aircraft on a wet lease basis from the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA), IndiGo has now applied for final approval from the aviation regulator DGCA for these operations as per the prescribed procedure.

In coordination with the process of these approvals, IndiGo will soon make this 777-capacity available for sale on the Delhi - Istanbul - Delhi route, subject to regulatory approvals.

Elon Musk on Friday announced that Twitter accounts engaged in doxxing will receive a temporary seven-day suspension.

Emphasising that criticising him all day long is totally fine, "but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not".

Social media Meta has taken down over 40 accounts operated by Indian firm CyberRoot Risk Advisory for phishing. The accounts were allegedly involved in hacking-for-hire services, Meta said in a report. The tech giant has also taken down a network of about 900 fake accounts on Instagram and Facebook operated from China by an unknown entity.

These accounts were focused on collecting data of people in Myanmar, India, Taiwan, the US and China

American-Dutch software company Elastic NV is in expansion mode in India and is planning to increase its workforce and acquire smaller companies in the country, its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ashutosh Kulkarni, told Business Standard, days after announcing global layoffs.

The search-powered solutions provider announced a reduction of its global workforce by 13 per cent while announcing the results for Q2FY23 on November 30.

Boeing Co. is closing in on an order for as many as 200 of its 737 Max jets from Air India Ltd.’s new owner Tata Group as the two sides race to wrap up talks before the year-end holidays, according to people familiar with the matter.

The final deal is expected to include 40 to 50 Max aircraft that were built for Chinese carriers but never delivered due to an extended grounding of the US jet and heightened trade tensions, some of the people said, asking not to be identified because the discussions are confidential.

Shares of public sector undertaking (PSU) banks were on a roll, with the market price of two lenders UCO Bank and Punjab & Sind Bank zooming over 145 per cent in past one month. In comparison, the Nifty PSU Bank index has gained 23 per cent, while the benchmark Nifty 50 was up less than 1 per cent during the period.

Among individual stocks, UCO Bank rallied 10 per cent to Rs 36.55 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) in Thursday’s intra-day trade on back of two-fold jump in trading volumes.

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