As a gift from India, the first consignment of 1.5 lakh doses of COVID-19 vaccine 'Covishield' was dispatched to Thimphu, Bhutan from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai in the wee hours of Wednesday.

As per reports, the consignment containing 1.5 lakh doses of Covishield is scheduled to reach Bhutan's capital Thimphu on Wednesday at around noon.

Shares of L&T Technology Services (LTTS) moved higher by 10 per cent to Rs 2,621 on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Tuesday on the back of heavy volumes ahead of its October-December quarter (Q3FY21) results. The company said it will announce its results for the third quarter of FY21 on Wednesday, January 20, 2021 post market hours.

The stock of LTTS, a subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) focused on engineering, research & development (ER&D) services, hit a record high of Rs 2,780 on Friday, January 15, 2021.

Shares of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise hit a record high of Rs 2,654 on the BSE in the intra-day trade on Tuesday after the company announced that it has launched a qualified institutional placement (QIP) issue to raise upto Rs 1,000 crore.

Based on Sebi's pricing formula for such transactions,the board has fixed the floor price at Rs 2,508.6 for the share sale. The final issue price, including any discount to the floor price, will be determined in the fund-raising committee meeting on January 22, 2021, Apollo Hospitals said in a statement.

Petrol price on Tuesday breached the Rs 85 a litre mark in the national capital and diesel neared record high after rates were raised for the second consecutive day.

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

A 36-year-old Indian-origin man was arrested in the United States for living at Chicago's international airport for almost three months. The man said that he stayed at the airport for three months because he was too scared to fly due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Aditya Singh, a resident of Los Angeles, California, was held by airport authorities on Saturday and charged with impersonation in a restricted area of the airport and theft of less than $500 (approximately Rs 36,600). Singh was allegedly hiding in a secure area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport since October 19, 20202.

In a strongly worded letter to WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart, India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has expressed its strong concerns on the new privacy changes and asked the instant messaging app to respect the date security of Indian users.

The IT Ministry in the letter has asked WhatsApp to withdraw the proposed policy, slamming its all or nothing approach which leverages the social significance of the app to force users into a bargain.

Young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant hit an unbeaten 89 runs off 138 balls to help India register a historic win against Australia on Day 5 of the fourth Test match, at The Gabba in Brisbane. With this three-wicket win, Ajinkya Rahane-led side succeeded in retaining the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and won the four-match Test series 2-1.

During the post-match ceremony, Pant said, "This is one of my biggest days in life.

Fifteen migrant labourers sleeping by the roadside in Gujarat's Surat district were killed on Tuesday after being crushed under a speeding truck, police said.

The tragedy took place near Kosamba village, around 60 km from Surat, police said, adding that all those killed hailed from Rajasthan.

Bangladesh will receive 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine 'Covishield' as a gift from India on January 20.

Citing the letter by the Indian High Commission written to the Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka Tribune reported that a special flight from India carrying the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines, locally manufactured by Serum Institute of India, would land at Shahjalal International Airport on January 20.

The total number of global coronavirus cases has topped 95.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 2.03 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload and death toll stood at 95,530,563 and 2,039,283, respectively.

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