Gold price today jumped to Rs 55,250 from Rs 55,040 per 10 gm, while silver was trending at Rs 61,000 per kg, according to the Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making changes.

WhatsApp has launched a new shopping button on its app that will allow users to browse through a business' catalogue, the Facebook-owned messaging service said in a press release.

With the new feature, people will be able to see a storefront icon, right next to the business' name. This will make it easier for users to discover a catalogue and look at what goods or services are offered, WhatsApp said in the emailed release.

Eli Lilly & Co.’s antibody therapy was granted an emergency-use authorisation by U.S. drug regulators for treating Covid-19, widening access to a treatment that early data suggests is effective in keeping people infected with the coronavirus out of the hospital.

The Food and Drug Administration authorised the experimental treatment, called bamlanivimab, for use against mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adults, including those who are 65 and older, and pediatric patients, the agency said on its website.

Bihar election results 2020: It's just a matter of hours now that fate will decide whether Bihar see a fourth term for incumbent Nitish Kumar or whether the state gets a new chief minister in young Tejashwi Yadav. The answer will be known with the results of counting of votes on Tuesday in the recently concluded and bitterly fought Assembly elections.

Counting of votes began at 8 am on Tuesday with all real-time trends and results of elections being made on Election Commission of India's website.

Pfizer Inc said on Monday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective, a major victory in the fight against a pandemic that has killed more than a million people, battered the world`s economy and upended daily life.

Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE are the first drugmakers to release successful data from a large-scale clinical trial of a coronavirus vaccine. The companies said they have so far found no serious safety concerns and expect to seek U.S. authorization this month for emergency use of the vaccine.

With votes still being counted, turnout in the 2020 presidential election has hit a 50-year high, exceeding the record set by the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama an extraordinary engagement in what amounted to a referendum on President Donald Trump's leadership.

As of Sunday, the tallied votes accounted for 62 per cent of the eligible voting-age population in the US. That's a 0.4 percentage point increase so far over the rate hit in 2008, when the nation elected its first Black president.

Drug firm Alembic Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it has received tentative approval from the US health regulator for Palbociclib capsules, used to treat a certain type of breast cancer.

The approved product is therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug product lbrance Capsules of Pfizer Inc.

L&T Finance Holdings on Monday said its board has approved raising of up to Rs 3,000 crore through a rights issue.

The board approved the offer and issuance of fully paid-up equity shares of the company for an amount not exceeding Rs 3,000 crore by way of a rights issue to the eligible equity shareholders of the company, L&T Finance Holdings said in a regulatory filing.

The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Monday imposed a complete ban against sale or use of all kinds of firecrackers in Delhi NCR from midnight today till November 30 in wake of rising air pollution and coronavirus cases. The ban will kick in from midnight of November 9-10 to midnight of November 30, 2020.

A bench of the NGT, headed by its chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, directed that the order will also apply to all cities and towns in the country where the average of ambient air quality during November (as per available data of last year) falls under 'poor' or worse category.

Even though Donald Trump is not accepting the results of the US presidential election, many members of his family feel that he should give up his 'stubbornness'. According to a CNN report, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and wife Melania Trump want Trump to accept his defeat.

Kushner also went to the White House to convince Trump, but was disappointed. Donald Trump is not ready to hear anything in this matter.

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