With the new Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) guidelines coming into force to guard customers from fake online reviews of products, tech giants like Meta and Google, along with homegrown platforms like Zomato and Flipkart, will now face closer scrutiny of product reviews on their respective platforms.

The guidelines, prescribing specific responsibilities for the review author and the review administrator, went live on Friday and are now applicable to every online platform which publishes consumer reviews.

China reported a high number of COVID-19 cases on Friday, setting a record for daily infections, for the third day in a row, media reports said.

35,909 cases were reported including 3,405 locally transmitted cases and 31,504 local asymptomatic cases, state media Xinhua reported. The latest figure excluded the imported cases.

President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday paid tribute to all those who lost their lives in Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks.

On the 14th anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the President said that the country shares the enduring pain of their loved ones and families.

"On the anniversary of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the nation remembers with gratitude all those we lost.

Banking regulator RBI has put a pause on onboarding of online merchants by Paytm Payments Services, even as the company said it will have no material impact on its business, according to a regulatory filing.

One97 Communications (OCL), which owns the Paytm brand, had proposed to transfer the payment aggregator services business undertaken by it to Paytm Payments Services (PPSL) in December 2020 to comply with payment aggregator (PA) guidelines of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) but the banking regulator had rejected its application.

Twitter's account verification program is finally set to launch next week.

CEO Elon Musk, took to the microblogging site to make the announcement. "Sorry for the delay, we're tentatively launching Verified on Friday next week." he posted.

Reliance Jio on Friday said Gujarat has become the first state to get 'True 5G' in each of the 33 district headquarters.

With this, Jio 'True 5G' is now present in 10 cities/regions in India (including Delhi-NCR).

As a model state, Jio will launch a series of True 5G-powered initiatives across education.

Film exhibition company PVR Cinemas has opened Kerala's first ever IMAX along with a 12-screen superplex at Lulu Mall in the state capital here.

The cinemas, which will be opened to the public from December 5, was formally inaugurated jointly by the Chairman and Managing Director of PVR Limited, Ajay Bijli, Chairman and Managing Director of LuLu Group International, M A Yusuff Ali and the Joint Managing Director of PVR Limited, Sanjeev Kumar Bijli, on Thursday evening.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) gained 1 per cent and hit an all-time high of Rs 2,079.60 on the BSE in Friday’s intra-day trade on strong order prospects. The stock of the engineering & construction company has surpassed its previous high of Rs 2,078.20, touched on January 18, 2022. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.06 per cent at 62,238, at 09:30 am.

In the past two trading days, L&T has gained 3 per cent after the company won an order worth Rs 1,000-2,500 crore from Greenko Group, one of the world's leading renewable energy companies, for development of an off stream pumped storage project in Madhya Pradesh.

Delhi Metro will run trains on both up and down lines with automated signalling system in the Grey Line section between Najafgfarh and Dhansa Bus Stand from Friday onwards, officials said.

Till now, services on this section were being operated through single line on manual mode, a DMRC official said on Thursday.

Amazon India has reportedly told the labour ministry that it has not sacked any employee and has only let go of those who accepted the severance package and opted for separation on their own, a report in the Economic Times (ET) said.

This came in response to a petition filed by the Pune-based employee union, Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate (NITES) with labour minister Bhupender Yadav.

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