Pharma major Dr Reddy's Laboratories expects the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V to get approval from the Indian regulator in the next few weeks, a company official has said.

We expect to get the approval in the next few weeks. It is a two dose vaccine. You take the first dose on day zero and the second one on day 21.

After several years of legal wrangling, India’s Tata Group has won a decisive victory over its disgruntled minority shareholder. But the boardroom coup that turned into a courtroom drama will only be over with a divorce. That could still get messy.

The Shapoorji Pallonji Group’s claim of being an oppressed junior partner in the storied Indian empire has been set aside by the country’s Supreme Court, which also held SP scion Cyrus Mistry’s 2016 sacking as Tata Group chairman as legal.

Ascendas India Trust (a-iTrust) will acquire 1.65 million sq ft area at an IT park in Bengaluru for an estimated deal value of Rs 1,441 crore, according to a statement.

Ascendas Property Fund Trustee Pte Ltd, the Trustee-Manager ofa-iTrust, has entered into a forward purchase agreement with Gardencity Realty Pvt Ltd to acquire two buildings in an IT Park with a total net leasable area of up to 1.65 million sq ft located at Hebbal, Bengaluru.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar is unwell and will be admitted to Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai on Wednesday (March 31) to undergo a surgery.

NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said that doctors at Breach Candy hospital have detected a "problem in Pawar's gallbladder and he will undergo a surgery for the same.

The Elisabeth Pharmacon lab has discovered a new strain of the coronavirus, Czech biologist Omar Sery, who is the company's founder, said on Twitter.

Thanks to the sequencing of samples from patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection, our laboratory discovered a hitherto undescribed mutation of the spike protein, Sery said.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said that banks will conduct special clearing operations exclusively for government cheques on March 31 to facilitate accounting of all the government transactions for the current financial year.

In a notification to all scheduled banks along with small finance banks and the National Payments Corporation of India, the central bank said that it is mandatory for all banks to participate in the special clearing operations on March 31, 2021.

In a major blow to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday (March 28) gave his assent to the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (Amendment) (GNCTD) Bill, that says 'Government' in Delhi means 'Lieutenant Governor'.

According to the recently-passed legislation, the government in Delhi means the Lieutenant Governor and Delhi government will now need to take opinion from the L-G before taking any executive action.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (March 29) took to Twitter to greet people on the occasion of Holi and wished that the 'festival of colours' infuses new vigor and energy in everyone's life.

"Wishing you all a very Happy Holi. This festival of happiness, exaltation, joy and glee should infuse new vigor and new energy into everyone's life," PM Modi said in a tweet in Hindi.

Indian President Ram Nath Kovind has been shifted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Saturday for further treatment. His condition is stated to be stable.

He is being referred to AIIMS, Delhi for further investigation, Indian Army's Research and Referral Hospital said in a statement.

In a major tragedy, over 500 shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at the Fashion Street market in Pune.

No casualties have been reported as of now. However, hawkers and shop owners have suffered heavy losses.

As per the fire department, around 16 fire tenders and two water tankers were utilised to douse the fire which broke out on Friday night.

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