IT services major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is expanding its partnership with Celcom Axiata Berhad (Celcom), a leading telecommunications provider in Malaysia, to transform the latter’s core business support systems (BSS) using TCS HOBS and TCS TwinX hosted on Microsoft Azure.

With the new core platforms transformation project, TCS will enable Celcom to further enhance its digital and platform positioning through advanced digital capabilities like AI/ML-driven business simulations, an enterprise product catalogue, and partner ecosystem enablement.

Unified Payments Interface, or UPI as it is popularly known, recorded over 4 billion transactions in October, a new all-time high for the payment’s platform since its inception, driven by the festive season. In value terms, the payments platform saw transactions worth Rs 7.71 trillion in October, a record high.

UPI had logged 3.65 billion transactions worth Rs 650 crore in September. On a month-on-month basis, UPI recorded a 15 per cent jump in volume of transactions and 18.5 per cent increase in value of transactions in October.

Shares of Steel Authority of India (SAIL) surged 13 per cent to Rs 130.35 on the BSE in Monday's intra-day trade after the company reported best-ever quarterly standalone profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 4,304 crore for the second quarter ended September 2021 (Q2FY22). It had posted Rs 393 crore net profit in the year-ago quarter. On a sequential basis, PAT up 12 per cent from Rs 3,850 crore in June 2021 quarter.

The company's standalone revenue from operations increased 58 per cent year on year (YoY) at Rs 26,827 crore, from Rs 16,923 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous fiscal.

Shares of Bandhan Bank dipped 7 per cent to Rs 272.55 on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade after the bank reported net loss of Rs 3,009 crore in the second quarter ended September 2021 (Q2FY22) on huge provisions of over Rs 4,600 crore for the bad loans and restructured advances. It had posted a net profit of Rs 920 crore in Q2FY21. The stock of private sector lender is trading close to its 52-week low of Rs 259.40 touched on August 25, 2021.

During the quarter, the bank has made accelerated provision on non-performing assets (NPA) accounts of Rs 1,500 crore resulting in PCR of 74 per cent as against 62 per cent in Q1FY22.

Even as it celebrated 75 years of its foundation on Sunday, dairy and food major Amul is now being asked to share its success with other cooperative sectors and help them market their products.

Speaking at the 75th foundation year ceremony here, home and cooperation minister Amit Shah said, “Many farmers in other cooperative sectors have shifted to organic products but they do not have a platform to market their goods.

Windmill power generation firm Kirloskar Industries on Saturday reported 79 per cent jump in consolidated net profit from continuing operations at Rs 134.72 crore for September quarter 2021-22 on the back of higher revenue.

The company had posted a net profit from continuing operations at Rs 75.13 crore for the same period last fiscal year, Kirloskar Industries said in a regulatory filing.

Ten gram of 24-carat gold was on Saturday selling at Rs 48,050, same as yesterday’s trading price. Silver was at Rs 64,600 per kg, down Rs 400 from yesterday’s trading price, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery price varies across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday arrived in Dehradun to participate in various events in the state today.

Shah was received by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami at the airport.

Shah will launch 'Ghasiyari Kalyan Yojana' in Dehradun. After this event, he will address the Shantikunj Golden Jubilee Year lecture series in Haridwar at 4 PM today.

With 14,313 people testing positive for coronavirus in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 3,42,60,470, while the active cases were recorded at 1,61,555, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Saturday.

The death toll climbed to 4,57,740 with 549 more fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

Polling was underway amid tight security in the by-election to the Huzurabad Assembly constituency in Telangana on Saturday.

Polling started at 7 a.m. at 306 polling centres across the constituency in Karimnagar district. Election officials said the process will continue till 7 p.m.

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