The US has condemned the suicide bomber attack on a mosque in northern Afghanistan that killed at least 46 people, saying it is an enormous tragedy and people of that country deserve better.

Obviously, any loss is an enormous tragedy, and our heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at her daily news conference on Friday.

Bars in Brazil's biggest metropolis, Sao Paulo, are full again for Friday happy hours and lawmakers in the capital have nearly done away with video sessions via Zoom.

Rio de Janeiro's beaches are packed and calls for strict social distancing seem but a memory.

The subject expert committee (SEC) advising the Central Drugs Stan­dard Control Orga­nisation (CDSCO) has allowed US pharma major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to conduct clinical trials on adolescents for its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine, albeit with some conditions.

The firm had on August 17 sought approval from the CDSCO to conduct trials on children aged 12-17 years.

Gold (24 carat) is selling at Rs 46,940 per ten gram on Wednesday in India, up Rs 40 from the previous trade.

Silver is selling at Rs 61,200 per kg, unchanged from yesterday's trading price, according to Good Returns website.

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

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai bench directed Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) to file its reply by October 22 to a petition moved by Invesco Developing Markets Funds.

Invesco, the largest shareholder of ZEE, seeks to remove the current MD and CEO, Punit Goenka and appoint six of its directors on the company's board.

There was a face-off in Arunachal Sector last week between soldiers of India and China as there is a difference in perception of the Line of Actual Control, sources in the defence establishment said.

The engagement between the two sides lasted for a few hours and was resolved as per the existing protocols. There was no damage caused to own defences in the engagement.

Union Minister of State for Home Kumar Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra, who was asked to appear before the police at 10 am on Friday in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri violence, did not reach the police lines till 10.30 am, sources said.

Deputy Inspector General (Headquarters) Upendra Agarwal who is heading the probe team arrived at the office on time, they said.

The Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati was handed over to the Adani Group for operations, management and development responsibilities on Friday.

Beginning the process of developing and modernising the Northeast's foremost airport, the symbolic key of the airport was handed over by Ramesh Kumar, Airport Director of the Airports Authority of India (AAI). to Utpal Baruah, Chief Airport Officer of the new airport operator at an event held midnight, a press statement said.

Shares of Piramal Enterprises were down 5 per cent to Rs 2,727.80 on the BSE in Friday's intra-day trade on profit booking after the company's board approved the demerger of the pharmaceuticals business and simplification of the corporate structure. With today;s fall, the stock has declined 9.5 per cent from its record high level of Rs 3,013 touched in Thursday's intra-day trade.

Piramal Enterprises has approved the restructuring of its business to demerge its financial services and pharmaceuticals businesses into two separate listed entities.

A bourse with a near monopoly in electricity trading in India is drawing attention as a severe coal crisis and the government’s intent to push ahead with reforms change dynamics in the nation’s power sector.

Shares of Indian Energy Exchange Ltd., whose platform is increasingly being accessed by power producers, distributors and corporates for their short-term energy needs, have soared 181% so far this year.

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