SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines (SIA) began operating flights on Thursday with full sets of crew members vaccinated against COVID-19 as the city-state seeks to rejuvenate its status as an international travel hub.

The airline said pilots and cabin crew on three international flights from Singapore had received both of the required doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

Petrol price on Thursday touched a record high of Rs 87.85 in the national capital, two days after breaching the Rs 87-a-litre mark.

Petrol and diesel prices were hiked by 25 and 30 paise per litre respectively on Thursday, according to a price notification from oil marketing companies.

India's COVID-19 tally has climbed to 1,08,71,294 with 12,923 fresh cases reported in a day, while the number of recoveries has surged to 1,05,73,372, the health ministry said on Thursday.

The death toll in the country due to the viral disease has gone up to 1,55,360 with 108 more people succumbing to it, according to the ministry's data updated at 8 am.

ArcelorMittal reinstated its dividend and named Aditya Mittal as its new chief executive officer as a rebounding steel market helped it shrug off the impact of the pandemic.

Steel demand -- a key barometer for global economic growth -- will increase by 4.5 per cent to 5.5 per cent this year, the company said Thursday in its full-year earnings statement.

When State bank of India (SBI), with nearly 20-25 per cent market share, records a beat on its quarterly earnings, especially amid a global pandemic, the feat is sure to invite re-rating from analysts.

The series of price-target upgrades continued for the sixth consecutive quarter for the state-owned lender as it reported a 7 per cent decline in net profit at Rs 5,196 crore for quarter ended December 2020.

YES Bank intends to stay away from large corporate businesses as it looks to rebuild its loan book in the mid- and small-corporate segment, according to Managing Director and CEO Prashant Kumar.

Kumar acknowledged YES Bank had, like some of its peers, seen increased stress in its retail segment, which had touched nearly 3 per cent in this financial year compared with 1 per cent during pre-coronavirus times, but said things were improving.

Amazon.com Inc has mounted a legal challenge against its partner Future Group's $3.4 billion retail assets sale in India's Supreme Court, three sources told Reuters on Thursday, marking the US firm's latest effort to block the deal.

Amazon, locked in legal disputes with Future, alleges the Indian firm violated contracts by agreeing to sell its retail assets to Reliance Industries last year. Future denies any wrongdoing.

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said in Rajya Sabha that not an inch of land will be given to China. Singh made the statement just a day after it was reported that both India as well as Chinese troops have started I disengagement at the Line of Actual Control (LAC).

The Defence Minister lauded the valor of Indian forces and asserted that New Delhi remains committed to maintain peace and stability at the LAC and Modi government wants to resolve the India-China border dispute amicably.

In a piece of good news for the drivers and travellers out there, they do not have to worry about keeping a minimum balance in their FASTag wallet anymore. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has now ended the stipulation of keeping a minimum balance to make the use of FASTag more prevalent.

It is to be noted that the relaxation of minimum balance is limited to cars, jeeps or vans and minimum balance is still going to be mandatory for commercial vehicles.

Russian news agency TASS on Wednesday (Febaruary 10) claimed at least 45 Chinese soldiers got killed during the violent faceoff with Indian troops at Galwan valley in eastern Ladakh on June 15, 2020.

TASS, in its report on India-China border troops disengagement, said that around 20 Indian soldiers also died in the violent skirmish.

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