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Hello and welcome to News Explained, In today's podcast we look at the Vaccine distribution strategy across India.

The Bihar government has approved a proposal to provide free Covid-19 vaccine to the people of State in a cabinet meeting today. With this, the newly elected government is implementing a poll promise.

Not only Bihar, but other states are promising to do so. Recently, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan is the latest to join this bandwagon, joining Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh. 

Even as States announce their vaccination plans, the Centre is preparing the needed infrastructure for the immediate rollout of a Covid-19 vaccine, whenever one is ready. What is the Centre's plan?

Find out how the Weather is across India and your state from BusinessLine's Vinson Kurian.

Hello and welcome to News Explained. in this podcast BusinessLine's Chief of Bureau- Delhi -Richa Mishra, explains the importance of the govt's BPCL disinvestment plan.

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Scattered to fairly widespread rain/thundershowers will come back to Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep over the South Peninsula and likely sustain an intense spell of rain and thundershowers as part of the revival of the North-East monsoon into the weekend and the next.

More geographical area than earlier expected may get impacted by the rain-laden easterly wave with the wet spell getting extended over the larger South Peninsula. Easterly waves move fast and straight across the Bay of Bengal, and usually are known to target Tamil Nadu and Kerala, apart from Sri Lanka to the South.

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The stock markets have fared well so far despite the Indian economy facing tough times. Here are six reasons behind the bullish trend. Listen to Akshaya.

India Meteorological Department (IMD) saw scattered to fairly widespread rain/thundershowers over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep from Wednesday to Friday. Isolated heavy falls are also likely over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal during this period.

An extended outlook valid from Saturday to Monday hinted at the possibility of scattered to fairly widespread rain/thundershowers with isolated heavy falls over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal, Kerala, Mahe and Lakshadweep, and breaking afresh over upstream Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

Listen to the weather report by Vinson Kurian.

If you stay in a city that is polluted or are even allergic to certain odours of adhesives, the Dyson hot-cool cryptomic air-purifer is the ideal gadget for you. Despite its high price, this device is said to be useful in many Indian households. Find out why in this podcast by Mala Bhargava.

India remembered the martyrs of the 2001 parliament attack. On this day in 2001, terrorists from the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed attacked the seat of India's democracy.

Five Delhi Police personnel, a woman Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) trooper and two Parliament Watch and Ward Staff died taking on the terrorists. A gardener and a photojournalist were also killed. 

PM Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and  Union Home Minister Amit Shah paid tributes to the security personnel who laid down their lives in the  2001 parliament terror attack

At a ceremony at the Parliament complex, Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu, Speaker Om Birla, Union Ministers and many  Opposition party leaders paid their respects to those who lost their lives in this terrorist attack.

India’s active COVID-19  caseload has fallen to 3.62 per cent of the total cases, according to the Union Health Ministry.

India’s active caseload stands at 3,56,546 as on date.30,254 persons were found to be COVID-19 positive in the country over the last 24 hours, 33,136 new recoveries were registered during the same period. 

Real-Time Gross Settlement System (RTGS) will be made available round the clock on all days from December 14, 2020. This comes under a year of  Reserve Bank making NEFT 24x7Transactions of a minimum of Rs 2 lakh or more can be done via RTGS with no maximum ceiling

The market is on a gravity-defying trip, never mind the naysayers. At record highs, the Sensex is now up about 12 per cent year-to-date and 75 per cent from its March lows. It trades at about 33 times trailing price-to-earnings, higher than its past averages.

But like many big bull runs in the past, this rally too could turn into a frenzy with many retail investors burning their fingers due to ‘irrational exuberance’. In this situation, a reminder on the behavioural biases that we all are prone to, can be useful.

Behavioral finance principles are relevant across market conditions. But they find more resonance in extreme markets — raging bull or bear — which induce severe bouts of greed or fear among investors.

In this week’s Big Story, BusinessLine’s Research Bureau explains some key behavioural biases seen in raging bull markets like the current one, and how you can guard against these.

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How is the weather across India? Would there be intense rainfall expected,  along the Bay of Bengal coasts? Or have the North-East Monsoons begun to subside? Listen to the podcast by Vinson Kurian..