Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) is a conglomerate operating in the steel, power, mining & infrastructure sector. The company has become the first-ever private company to get the stamp of ‘regular supplier’ from the Indian railways. JSPL would be supplying 60 kg of 880-grade prime (90 UTS) rails, which has been approved by Research Design & Standards Organisation (RDSO) as well as by the Ministry of Railways.   

Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL), the largest manufacturer of stainless steel in India as well as the parent company of Jindal Stainless (Hisar) Ltd (JSHL) announced on Tuesday about the merger of JSHL with JSL.  

After approving Sputnik-V from Dr Reddy’s Lab and Covaxin from Bharat Biotech, ZyCoV-D is the next one in line seeking permission to start phase III trials.  

eClerx Services announced that it is acquiring Eclipse Global Holdings LLC (Personiv), which is an Austin, Texas-headquartered company having its operations in business process management & services, with a special focus on the outsourced accounting space.  

Market on Wednesday ended in the green, overshadowing the global sentiment due to a new strain of COVID-19 found in the UK. Sensex went up by 0.95 per cent, a hike of 437.49 points, and settled at 46,444.18. Nifty too gained, 134.8 points, a 1 per cent gain at 13,601.10. It proved to be a good day for IT stocks with Infosys being one of the top gainers, followed by Hindustan Unilever and Mahindra & Mahindra.  

On Tuesday, Sensex recovered from Monday's dip, by gaining 0.99 per cent and settling at 46,006.09. Nifty saw the highest jump of 1.03 per cent at 13,466.30 points.  

Birlasoft has multiple verticals including energy, manufacturing, banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI). The company also provides digital transformation and integrated solutions to enterprises. The contribution from these verticals is divided and is not dependent on one particular industry thereby, making it a diversified portfolio.

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) undertook the process of producing oil during the weekend from the well Asokenagar-1, Bengal Basin in 24 Paragana district.  

Taking into consideration the increasing commodity prices, Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) announced on Monday that it is planning to increase the prices of its tractors. Reacting to this, the stock of M&M soon slumped nearly 3 per cent on BSE. 

Page Industries has an exclusive licence of Jockey International Inc. for manufacturing, distribution & marketing its products in India, Bangladesh, Omar, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Maldives, Bhutan, and UAE as well as of Speedo International Ltd but only in India. 

Divi’s Laboratories, one of the largest active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) manufacturers in the world, gained more than 3 per cent per share on Thursday.

Cipla has settled its patent litigation with Celgene over the blockbuster cancer drug Revlimid. Celgene Corporation, a subsidiary of Bristol Myers Squibb, has agreed to provide Cipla with a licence to Celgene’s required patents. Cipla can then sell or manufacture certain volume-limited amounts of generic Lenalidomide in the United States sometime after March 2022.

A subsidiary of Biocon Limited i.e. Biocon Biologics and Mylan, a subsidiary of Viatris Inc., have received a positive opinion from European Medicines Agency's committee for medicinal products for human use (CHMP), recommending approval of the market authorisation of Kixelle, a biosimilar Insulin Aspart, which is rapid-acting insulin for the treatment of type 1 and 2 diabetes.

United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) has issued the first emergency use authorisation (EUA) as a vaccine for COVID-19.

Canara Bank Ltd, one of the largest public sector banks in India, is set to raise Rs 2,000 crore by way of qualified institutional placement (QIP). Reacting to the news, its stock gained 8 per cent on Tuesday.