Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday hit out at Centre for "failing miserably" in rolling out the COVID-19 vaccination for Indians.

I share the pride that India exported 5.9 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines. At the same time, I am disappointed that we have administered only 3 crore doses to Indian citizens, Chidambaram tweeted.

As many as 35,871 new COVID-19 cases and 17,741 recoveries were reported in India in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Thursday.

With the addition of fresh cases, the total number positive cases in the country reached 1,14,74,605, including 2,52,364 active cases and 1,10,63,025 recoveries.

The ruling TRS candidate and former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's daughter S Vani Devi was ahead of her nearest BJP rival N Ramachander Rao after the completion of first round as the counting of votes in election to Telangana Legislative Council from two Graduates' constituencies was underway on Thursday.

Shares of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) rallied 7 per cent to Rs 53.80 on the BSE in intra-day trade on Thursday after the company said it has emerged as the lowest bidder at Rs 10,800 crore for fleet mode tender floated by Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) for its 6x700 MW Turbine Island Package Projects.

Notably, PHWRs (Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors) are the mainstay of the Indian Nuclear Power Programme and 12 out of 18 operating PHWRs of NPCIL are equipped with BHEL-supplied Steam Turbine Generator sets (10x220 MWe + 2x540 MWe) with the balance from Canada and Ukraine.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Wednesday entered into a collaboration with Phinergy, an Israeli start-up company specialising in hybrid lithium-ion and aluminium-air/zinc-air battery systems, to form IOC Phinergy Private Limited.

According to a press release, the collaboration took place in the presence of Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Israel Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday carried out searches at several locations of Cadbury India Ltd, which is now known as Mondelez Foods Pvt Ltd.

A CBI source said that multiple teams of the agency carried out searches at the locations of Cadbury India Ltd in Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana.

Beauty brand MyGlamm said on Thursday that it has closed its Rs 175 crore Series C funding round with investments from Ascent Capital, Amazon and Wipro Consumer. This also marks one of the first investments made by e-commerce giant Amazon in a beauty brand in India. With the Series C round MyGlamm becomes the fastest D2C (direct to consumer) beauty brand to cross the $100 million valuation mark in just three years of launch.

Maharashtra recorded 23,179 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours on Wednesday. This is the highest number of COVID-19 cases this year and nearly 30% higher than the day before.

With a steady rise in coronavirus cases, the Maharashtra government has issued a notification stating private establishments that do not follow the standard operating procedure (SOP) will be shut down till the pandemic continues to be notified as a disaster by the Centre.

Following Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar police have also imposed section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) till April 30 as a precautionary measure in wake of rising COVID-19 cases.

The precautionary measures have been put in place keeping in mind upcoming festivals including Holi, Good Friday, Ambedkar Jayanti, Navratri and Ram Navami. The measures prohibit unauthorised protests and action will be taken against people not following COVID-19 protocols.

In a major incident in Uttarakhand, a Tanakpur bound train started running in opposite direction before reaching the destination on Wednesday.

A major accident was averted after the Purnagiri Janshatabdi Express started running in reverse direction on the railway tracks for a few kilometres. The train was going from Delhi to Tanakpur.

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