Day: November 27, 2021

PV Sindhu came back from a game down to beat South Korea’s Sim Yujin 14-21, 21-19, 21-14 here on Friday and enter the semi-finals of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 tournament.

The new COVID-19 variant, which threatens to wreak havoc in South Africa, has led to considerable concerns about India’s tour of the Rainbow Nation next month and there could be changes in the quarantine rules for players in the coming days.

India’s Q2FY22 GDP is expected to grow by 8.5 per cent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis amid support from a favourable base, Acuite Ratings and Research said.

Digit Insurance, a unicorn general insurance company offering health, car, bike, travel, home and shop insurance, announced it has been conferred with the ‘Digital Insurer of the Year’ award at the 25th edition of the Asia Insurance Industry Awards 2021 (AIIA).

Extramarks has announced the launch of its new logo, visual identity, and category positioning.

With 8,318 fresh infections, India’s Coronavirus caseload rose to 3,45,63,749 today.

France has launched a plan to give Covid-19 booster shots to all adults, as it opted against a further lockdown or curfew to help combat a worrying uptick in infections in the country.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare on Friday blamed foreign interference over his government’s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Beijing for anti-government protests that have ravaged the capital Honiara.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned Thursday’s deadly terrorist attack on a UN-affiliated convoy in front of a school in Mogadishu, Somalia, said his deputy spokesman.

The World Health Organization declared the recently-discovered B.1.1.529 strain of Covid-19, first detected in southern Africa, to be a variant of concern and renamed it Omicron.