Shares of Dr Reddy's Laboratories extended their gains to the second straight day, up as much as 2.4 per cent to Rs 4,748 on the BSE on Thursday. The stock had risen 4.4 per cent in the last trading session after the firm and Russia's sovereign wealth fund, Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), agreed to cooperate on clinical trials and distribution of Sputnik V vaccine in India.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 29.7 million, while the deaths have increased to over 939,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Thursday morning, the total number of cases stood at 29,760,579 and the fatalities rose to 939,427, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

Oracle Corp. will get full access to review TikTok’s source code and updates to make sure there are no back doors used by the company’s Chinese parent to gather data on the video-sharing app’s 100 million American users, according to people familiar with the matter.

TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. and Oracle submitted these details in their proposal to the Trump administration with a goal of averting an outright sale of the app or a shutdown of its U.S. operations set to take effect Sept. 20. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to ban the app in a pair of executive orders issued last month based on U.S. national security concerns.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's LG Chem, an electric car battery supplier for Tesla Inc and GM, said on Thursday it plans to separate its battery business as a new company in December.

The new company, to be wholly owned by LG Chem, seeks to strengthen the expertise and market dominance by focusing on the battery business, it said.

Three terrorists were killed by security forces during an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Batmaloo on Thursday (September 17). A Deputy Commandant of CRPF also suffered injuries during the encounter. A civilian also died during the exchange of fire between security forces and terrorists.

Security forces are yet to reveal the identity of the dead terrorists. A search operation is still underway in the area.

Two days after speaking over the India-China border situation in Lok Sabha, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh is scheduled to make a statement on the issue in the Rajya Sabha today.

The minister on Tuesday spoke about the skirmish and said that the issue was still unresolved as China does not accept customary and peripheral alignment of Sino-India border and this has affected the peace and tranquility along the border.

Kangana Ranaut, who is currently in news for various reasons, took to Twitter (her verified account) to wish Prime Minister Narendra Modi happy birthday. She shared a video message in which the actress stated that the country is lucky to have him.

As Kangana begins the video, she is heard saying that she met PM Modi only twice-thrice, mainly for photo-ops. She concludes that the people of the Nation love him despite noises that shun him.

India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has exited from Sudan oilfields after the African nation refused to pay for oil it lifted from the fields.

ONGC Videsh (OVL), the overseas investment arm of the state-owned firm, as also its Chinese partner CNPC and Malaysia's Petronas have withdrawn from the block, a top company official said.

India is committed to working with the G-20 nations for making the world a better place and applauds the launch of the Global Initiative to reduce land degradation and coral reef programme, said Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar on Wednesday.

India has already taken significant action for the protection of wildlife, combating pollution, and climate change.

Delhi registered a record single-day spike of 4,473 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the city'sinfection tally to over 2.3 lakh, while 33 more deaths were reported, authorities said.

The previous highest single-day spike of 4,321 cases was recorded on September 12.

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