The 2+2 dialogue between India and the United States would be held in November later this year, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said on Friday.

We're looking at the 2+2 which will happen in November. The exact dates are not yet worked out, Shringla told a group of Indian reporters at the conclusion of his three-day visit to Washington DC, wherein he held meetings with top officials of President Joe Biden's administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has said it received a payment of nearly Rs 149 crore from Vodafone Idea Ltd as interest on its securities investment, which will be distributed among investors of the segregated portfolios.

The interest amounting to Rs 148.75 crore due from Vodafone Idea Ltd on September 3, 2021 for the security...(Non-convertible debenture /NCD) held in the segregated portfolio of five schemes has been received, a Franklin Templeton MF spokesperson said.

Oil marketing companies (OMCs) have kept pump prices of auto fuels petrol and diesel unchanged on Saturday, the third consecutive day of no revision as companies decided to wait and watch the global oil situation.

Accordingly, the price of petrol and diesel remained unchanged at Rs 101.34 and Rs 88.77 per litre in Delhi, as per the Indian Oil Corporation, the country's largest fuel retailer.

India's COVID-19 infection tally rose by 42,618 in a day to reach 3,29,45,907 while the number of active cases touched 4,05,681 following an increase for the third consecutive day, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday.

The death toll climbed to 4,40,225 with 330 more people succumbing to the viral disease, showed the data updated at 8 am.

An employer is always in a dominating position but it is open for the employee to challenge the terms and conditions of service if it is not in conformity with the statutory requirement under the law, the Supreme Court said on Friday.

The top court made the remarks in its judgement while setting aside the August 2013 verdict of the Uttarakhand High Court which had dismissed the plea filed by teachers of department of pharmaceutical sciences of a university questioning the process of holding open selection pursuant to an August 2011 advertisement and also the alleged arbitrary conditions incorporated in their appointment order.

Covid-19 cases, emergency department visits, and hospital admissions increased from June to August among children aged 0-17 years in the US, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In a two-week period (August 14-27), Covid-19-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions among the mentioned age group in the states with the lowest vaccination coverage were 3.4 and 3.7 times than in those with the highest inoculation rate, respectively, said the study published on Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report.

Amid concerns in India that Afghan soil under the Taliban regime can be used for terrorist activities against it, the insurgent group has said it has the right to speak out in favour of Muslims anywhere, including in Kashmir, though it does not have a policy of conducting armed operations against any country.

At least 40 children have died in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad due to a severe form of Dengue, called Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever. The Central Government has sent a team of experts from the National Centre for Disease Control and the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme to Firozabad to help officials control the disease.

The death toll from the fever climbed to 50 with three fresh fatalities on Friday, and as per reports, 40 of them were children. Media reports later said that the death toll might have crossed 65.

The duration of 84 days between first and second doses of the Covishield COVID-19 vaccine gives the best protection against the coronavirus, the central government, in a counter-affidavit filed in the Kerala High Court, on Friday said.

India`s National COVID Vaccination Program was built on scientific and epidemiological evidence, World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines and global best practices, Centre said.

A section of employees of SpiceJet airline went on strike at the Delhi airport on Friday morning over issues related to reduced salaries, sources said.

When asked about the matter, SpiceJet spokesperson clarified that the carrier's flight operations at the Delhi airport are functioning normally.

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