In Andhra Pradesh, hundreds of vehicles and people were stranded, traffic was either closed or suspended in arterial highways and over 100 trains cancelled snapping rail-road link between southern and other parts of the country on Sunday as the Penna river in spate caused heavy destruction.

The death toll in rain-related incidents in different districts of Andhra Pradesh touched 33 as more bodies were retrieved from the flooded streams and at least 12 people were reported missing.

Crude oil fell to seven-week lows on Monday, extending declines after the previous session's slide, on concerns about excess supply after Japan said it was weighing releasing oil reserves and over demand from a worsening COVID-19 situation in Europe.

Brent lost 57 cents, or 0.72%, to $78.32 a barrel as of 0206 GMT and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were down 39 cents, or 0.51%, at $75.55 a barrel.

One97 Communications, the parent company of fintech firm Paytm, reported that its gross merchandise value (GMV) for the month of October touched Rs 832 billion (around $11.2 billion), a growth of 131 per cent on a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis. The company was listed on the Indian bourses last week.

The company, in a disclosure to the exchanges, said that the growth was driven by the festive season and an increase in number of merchants and consumers, adoption of new products, transactions for both online and in-store merchants, and in deployed devices.

Bharti Airtel on Monday increased its tariffs for telecom subscribers for a range of services effective November 26, saying the decision was for a financially healthy business model.

The company hiked prepaid tariff by 20-25 per cent and data top-up plans by 20-21 per cent.

Drug firm Zydus Cadila on Saturday said it has received approval from the US health regulator to market Decitabine injection, used to treat certain types of cancers, in the American market.

The company has received final approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) to Decitabine for Injection in the strength of 50 mg/vial single-dose vial, Zydus Cadila said in a statement.

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has seized Rs 100 crore worth property records on suspicion of misappropriation from the offices of Bengaluru Development Authority (BDA) while conducting raids.

The raids were conducted on BDA on Friday later in the noon and continued till late night. ACB confirmed that the raids were continuing on Saturday and the BDA officers will be inquired and questioned based on the evidence gathered.

India administered 51,59,931 COVID-19 vaccine doses in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Saturday.

With this, the cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the country has exceeded 115.79 crore.

"As many as 1,15,79,69,274 vaccine doses of vaccines have been administrated as per provisional reports till 7 am today.

App store operators will face a fine of up to two per cent for forcing developers to use their own in-app payment systems, South Korean telecommunications regulator said.

Under the enforcement decree of the revised law aimed at curbing Google and other app store operators' dominance, such app store operators will have to pay one per cent of their revenue for delays in reviewing apps, according to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC).

Google is open to partnering with more OEMs, telecom carriers and developers to develop Android optimisations like it has with JioPhone Next, said Ram Papatla, general manager and engineering lead in India for Android.

“Nothing is off the table and over the next few months and years we will evaluate how we can go ahead with partnerships. Hopefully, we will have more announcements over the next few months,” he added.

The price of gold remained unchanged on Saturday, with the yellow metal selling at Rs 49,100 for 10 grams (24-carat), and Rs 48,100 for 10 gram (22-carat). The price of silver decreased by Rs 300 for 1 kg and the metal is selling for Rs 66,000 per kg.

In Delhi, the rate of 10 gram of 24-carat gold stands at Rs 52,530, while in Mumbai the yellow metal's price is at Rs 49,100. The price of ten grams of 22-carat gold in Delhi and Mumbai is at Rs 48,150 and Rs 48,100, respectively.

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