Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday took a dig at Centre's vision of 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'and pointing out at the Statue of Equality in Telangana stating that the statue has been allegedly built by a Chinese firm.

Statue of Equality is Made in China. 'New India' is China-nirbhar? the Wayanad MP tweeted.

Shares of D B Realty hit an over seven-year high of Rs 116.70, and was locked at the 5 per cent upper circuit on the BSE on Wednesday, after its board approved raising funds via issuing 50 million convertible warrants to Rekha Jhunjhunwala and others.

The stock of Mumbai-based real estate company has been locked at the 5 per cent upper circuit for the eight straight trading day. It quoted at its highest level since June 2014. The counter has seen huge trading volumes, with a combined 2.1 million equity shares changing hands. There were pending buy orders for 1.6 million shares on the NSE and BSE.

As many as 4,844 foreigners were granted Indian citizenship in the past five years under the Citizenship Act 1955, Union Minister Nityanand Rai told Lok Sabha in a written reply on Tuesday.

The minister informed that 1,773 foreigners were granted Indian citizenship in 2021, 639 in 2020, 987 in 2019, 628 in 2018 and 817 in 2017.

Global Covid-19 cases surpassed 400 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The global case count amounted to 400,244,031, with 5,761,208 deaths worldwide, as of 5:21 p.m. local time (2221 GMT) Tuesday, showed the data.

People would not be made to run from pillar to post to get their hard-earned pension as the Delhi government will be taking the online route for the department's pension disbursement, according to an official statement.

Earlier, this payment could not be made digital due to technical reasons, but the Social Welfare Department held several meetings with the central government, and found its solution. Now there will be no hindrance or delay in pension cases, Delhi Social Welfare Minister Rajendra Pal Gautam said on Tuesday.

Union Defence Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Rajnath Singh took a swipe at Congress stating that the party has been wiped out from the entire country.

The Defence Minister also stated that Congress is only lurking in the mountains.

Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) star campaigners for Goa Assembly polls, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, will visit the state on Wednesday, and hold a series of public rallies and door-to-door meetings across various constituencies in North and South Goa.

As per a press release issued by the BJP, Shah's day-long engagements start with the door-to-door campaign at Mayem Assembly Constituency at 3.30 pm followed by a door-to-door campaign at Bicholim Assembly Constituency at 4.25 pm.

Owing to a big rise in the market capitalisation of group companies such as Adani Green Energy and Adani Transmission, the group promoters, the Gautam Adani family, have closed the wealth gap with Mukesh Ambani, the promoter and owner of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).

Ambani continues to top India’s billionaire league table.

Telecom major Bharti Airtel’s net profit dipped 2.8 per cent year on year to Rs 830 crore in the October-December quarter (Q3) of 2021-22. In the same period last year, the company had posted a net profit of Rs 854 crore. Its operational performance was better than Street estimates, but the net profit fell short of expectations, mainly because of higher tax outgo.

The company’s revenue for the quarter grew 12.6 per cent to Rs 29,867 crore on a year-on-year (YoY) basis. The average revenue per user (Arpu) rose 6.5 per cent sequentially and 11.6 per cent YoY to Rs 163 due to an increase in mobile tariffs in late November.

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 397 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.74 million and vaccinations to over 10.07 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and the death toll stood at 397,053,590 and 5,749,136, respectively, while the total number of vaccine doses administered has increased to 10,071,840,408.

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