Pharma major Morepen Laboratories has started the production of the test batch of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Himachal Pradesh, the company has said.

The first batch of the vaccine will be shipped to Russia's Gamaleya Center for quality control. Sputnik V, which was granted emergency use authorisation in India in April, was the third to be launched in the country for its nationwide Covid-19 vaccination programme, after the Covaxin and Covishield.

Petrol price on Wednesday crossed the Rs 100-a-litre mark after fuel prices were increased in line with firming international oil trends.

Petrol price was increased by 35 paise per litre and diesel by 23 paise a litre, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers.

The Centre on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court (SC) seeking transfer of pleas pending in different high courts across the country challenging the validity of new IT Rules to the apex court for an authoritative pronouncement on the issue.

A senior law officer confirmed the development.

In a tragic piece of news, veteran actor Dilip Kumar, 98, breathed his last on Wednesday. Kumar's friend Faisal Farooqui took to the actor's verified Instagram handle to share the news with the legendary actor's fans.

With a heavy heart and profound grief, I announce the passing away of our beloved Dilip Saab, few minutes ago. We are from God and to Him we return. - Faisal Farooqui (sic), read the tweet on Dilip Kumar's account.

The Delhi High Court Tuesday directed social media giant Twitter to inform it by July 8 as to when it will appoint a resident grievance officer in compliance with the new IT Rules after the platform submitted that it was in the process of doing so.

Justice Rekha Palli, however, took exception to the fact that the court was not informed that the earlier appointment of the resident grievance officer (RGO) was only on interim basis, who has already resigned.

India reported 34,703 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest in 111 days, informed the Union Health Ministry on Tuesday.

With this, India's active caseload of COVID cases has declined to 4,64,357, which is the lowest in 101 days. The active cases constitute 1.52 percent of the total cases.

The price of 22-carat gold increased by Rs 120 from the previous day to Rs 46,430 per 10 gm on Tuesday. The price of silver increased by Rs 1,200 from the previous day to Rs 70,400 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold prices jumped in India despite edging in the bullion market today after hitting a two-week high during the previous session.

Shares of Tata Motors gained 3 per cent to Rs 355.50 on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Tuesday on report that the company would undertake a price increase in its passenger vehicles (PV) portfolio to pass on some of the increase in input costs of materials, such as steel and precious metals, to customers.

The quantum of the hike, however, has not yet been disclosed. The stock of the Tata Group commercial vehicles' company was trading close to its 52-week high of Rs 360.65 touched on June 15, 2021.

In a sign of revival in the city economy hit by COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, the Delhi government collected Rs 5,281 crore GST in the first quarter of the current financial year, officials said.

Delhi was under complete lockdown due to surge in Covid cases in the second wave, from April 19 till May 31, following which phased unlock process began with allowing construction and manufacturing activities.

Digital payments platform PhonePe on Monday said it has partnered with Flipkart to enable pay-on-delivery service for the e-commerce major's orders.

PhonePe's dynamic QR code solution will enable customers who earlier opted for 'cash on delivery' to pay digitally through any UPI app at the time of delivery, PhonePe said in a statement.

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