Day: January 22, 2021

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Biden administration will have a ‘very active and positive engagement’ a spokesperson for the UN chief said, underlining that Washington has a key leadership role to play across the international agenda, including in the Security Council.

After the man coordinating Israel’s Covid-19 response reportedly said that a single vaccine dose against the disease appeared less effective than expected and also lower than Pfizer had suggested, the country’s Health Ministry said that fears about the effectiveness of the vaccine were out of context and inaccurate.

SBI Cards and Payment Services Ltd on Thursday reported nearly 52 per cent dip in its net profit to Rs 210 crore in the third quarter ended December 2020, on higher provisioning.

India’s GDP is within the striking distance of attaining positive growth, the Reserve Bank said observing that the letter ‘V’ in the V-shaped recovery stands for vaccine.

Net new enrolments with retirement fund body EPFO slipped to 10.11 lakh in November from 10.56 lakh in October 2020, according to its latest payroll data released on Wednesday, providing a perspective on formal sector employment amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Vivo has expanded its Y series with the launch of Y31 in India.

Hero MotoCorp has announced achieving 100 million production milestone since the company started operations in 1984.

BMW India has launched the 3 Series Gran Limousine in the country. Locally produced at BMW Group Plant Chennai exclusively for the Indian market, the car is available in both petrol and diesel variants.

Tamilnadu Health Minister Dr C Vijayabaskar today took the Covid vaccine shot at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (RGGGH) here.

It would be a low key Republic Day celebrations this year, sans cultural programmes by school and college students, in view of the corona virus pandemic.