India will soon have administered 100 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses, but the milestone masks a yawning gap between the number of people who have been fully inoculated and those that have had just one shot; restaurants in Maharashtra will remain open till midnight and shops till 11 pm, with the Uddhav Thackeray-led government relaxing curbs imposed due to the Covid outbreak; Indian clothing brand Fabindia has withdrawn an advertisement for a clothing collection called 'Jashn-e-Riwaaz' after senior BJP leaders slammed the brand and accused it of 'defacing' Diwali by linking the festival to an Urdu term; and other top stories.
