Legendary Indian cricket team captain Kapil Dev, who was admitted to hospital after suffering a heart attack, took to social media to tell fans he is 'on the road to recovery'.

He wrote, Thank you everyone for all the love and concern. I am overwhelmed with good wishes and well on the road to recovery.

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail on Friday approved to raise Rs 1,500 crore by way of preferential issue to Flipkart Investments Private Limited, a foreign portfolio investor, the company said in an exchange filing. With this infusion, Flipkart Group will own 7.8% equity stake in ABFRL on a fully diluted basis.

According to the deal terms, AB Fashion and Retail will issue 7,31,70,732 fully paid-up equity shares, at a price of Rs 205 per share (face value of Rs 10 each) aggregating to Rs 1,500 crore, ranking pari passu to the existing fully paid-up equity shares.

Shares of Tata Elxsi moved higher to its fresh record high of Rs 1,710, up 6 per cent on the BSE on Friday. In the past one month, the stock of the information technology (IT) software services company has rallied 42 per cent, as compared to 8 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex. In the past three months, it has zoomed 88 per cent as against 7 per cent gain in the benchmark index.

Tata Elxsi, a Tata group company, is amongst the world's leading providers of design and technology services across industries including automotive, broadcast, communications, healthcare and transportation.

Describing the air in India, China and Russia as 'filthy', US President Donald Trump on Thursday (local time) denounced rival and democratic nominee Joe Biden's plans to tackle climate change.

During the final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump said that the action on climate change was unfair to the United States.

Kickstarting the election campaign in Bihar, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed his first of the three rallies planned for Friday and said that Bihar must not forget who pushed them backward.

The people who once ruled Bihar are again looking at the developing state with their greedy eyes. But, Bihar must not forget who pushed them backward, that was the time when there was worsening law & order situation and corruption in the state, Modi said.

Shares of Jet Airways (India) hit a 52-week high of Rs 51.15 after hitting the 5 per cent upper circuit on the BSE on Friday. The stock has gained 27 per cent in one week after the company's committee of creditors (CoC) approved the resolution plan of consortium of Kalrock Capital–Murari Lal Jalan.

The stock has surpassed its previous 52-week high of Rs 50.25, touched on January 15, 2020. It has hit the upper circuit for the 12th straight trading day at the bourses. In the past 20 trading days, the stock has rallied 108 per cent from the level of Rs 24.60, on September 24, 2020. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 8 per cent during the same period.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday released the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) manifesto for the Bihar Assembly polls, which promised free Covid vaccine once it has been cleared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

It also sought to reach out to the youth with the promise of 1.9 million jobs in the next five years and farmers with the assurance of bringing lentils under the minimum support price regime.

India has crossed the 10 crore-mark in conducting tests for the detection of COVID-19as on Thursday with an average testing of more than 10 lakh samples per day in the last 17 days, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.

Till now, 74,000 tests per million population have been conducted.

A major fire erupted at a mall in south Mumbai on Thursday night where around 250-300 people were present. All of them were rescued and no injuries were reported.

The fire broke out at around 8:53 pm at the City Centre mall after which at least 20 fire tenders and seven jetties were rushed to the site to douse the flames. A fireman reportedly received burn injuries during the operation and was immediately rushed to the JJ Hospital.

In another major update for coronavirus vaccine in India, Covaxin - the drug developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has been granted permission to conduct the third phase of clinical trials.

The Subject Expert Committee of Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) recommended that permission should be granted to the vaccine maker to conduct the trials. Bharat Biotech had applied to the DGCI on October 2 and sought its permission.

Inviting Real Estate Agents, Job Placements Agents, Educational Institutes, Software Service Providers, Real Estate Builders, Marriage Bureaus, Travel Agents, Restaurant Owners, Health & Fitness Centers and other Local Businesses to Post a FREE Classified Advertisement on Cootera.com Classifieds Website.