Looking at the diverse conditions of the country, door-to-door COVID-19 vaccination is not feasible and it cannot pass a general direction to just scrap the existing policy, the Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

The top court, which refused to entertain a plea of a lawyers' body seeking door-to-door COVID-19 jab for the disabled and people belonging to weaker sections of society, said the vaccination drive is already in progress and over 60 per cent of the population has been administered the first dose.

India logged 37,875 new cases of coronavirus infection taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to

3,30,96,718, while the active cases declined to 3,91,256, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday.

The death toll climbed to 4,41,411 with 369 fresh fatalities, according to the data updated at 8 am.

The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India on Wednesday said its total production in August declined by 8 per cent on a yearly basis to 1,13,937 units as semiconductor shortage impacted its manufacturing schedules.

The company had produced a total of 1,23,769 units in the year-ago period, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) said in a regulatory filing.

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a 'Maharatna' and a Fortune Global 500 Company has announced the appointment of Arun Kumar Singh as the Chairman and Managing Director of the company and consequently he has taken charge yesterday.

A Mechanical Engineer by qualification, Arun Kumar Singh was earlier Director (Marketing) on the Board of the company, holding additional charge of Director (Refineries) and Director (Finance).

Gold (24-carat) is selling at Rs 47,410 per ten gram on Wednesday in India, down Rs 120 from the previous trade.

Silver is selling at Rs 65,000 per kg, down Rs 300 from yesterday's trading price, according to the Good Returns website.

Ahead of upcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Tuesday accused former Chief Minister and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati and All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi of doing communal politics in the state.

Hitting at Mayawati for promising to ensure the security of the Brahmin community if her party came to power in Uttar Pradesh, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia recalled BSP's old slogan Tilak, Taraju Aur Talwar, Inko Maro Joote Char.

Shares of telecom services provider caught investor fancy on Wednesday with Bharti Airtel hitting a new high at Rs 684, up 2 per cent, while Vodafone Idea jumped 7 per cent to Rs 8.90 on the BSE in the intra-day trade, ahead of the Cabinet meet scheduled later in the day. According to reports, the government may discuss a relief package for stressed sector.

Specifically, the Union Cabinet may discuss a bailout package for the telecom sector today, which could include cut in levies that the industry pays, apart from a lenient definition of income (adjusted gross revenue, or AGR) which could reduce the total burden on the sector.

Team India head coach Ravi Shastri, who is currently in isloation after testing COVID-19 positive recently, has worked with both current Team India captain Virat Kohli and former skipper MS Dhoni as a coach and a commentator respectively. Shastri and Kohli have achieved new milestones together and have taken Tema India to new heights. Talking about Dhoni and Kohli, Shastri said that Dhoni was calm as a leader whereas Kohli likes to lead from the front and is aggressive.

As several states have started reopening their schools and resuming physical classes, many students and teachers have been relieved, hopeful that they will make up for the academic loss caused during the online classes. But, reopening schools comes with its drawbacks.

After the reopening of schools in Tamil Nadu from September 1, over 10 teachers and 20 students have been tested positive for COVID-19. The most recent COVID cases in Tamil Nadu have been reported from a private school in Chennai, as per reports.

India on Tuesday crossed the 700-million mark for total doses administered in the country. More than 76 per cent of the doses given so far were first shots, while the remaining 24 per cent were second doses. The last 100 million of these were given in just 13 days, the fastest so far, said the Union health ministry on Tuesday.

While almost 7 million doses were administered on Tuesday, according to provisional data on the CoWIN dashboard, India had given 11.3 million doses on Monday, crossing the 10-million mark for the third time in the last eleven days.

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