Asian stocks traded mostly lower in early morning trade Monday, with lingering worries over a US rate hike partly offset by potentially positive news on the severity of the Omicron coronavirus variant. MSCI's index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was down by 0.45 per cent.

The firm had recently acquired a leading chain of K12 Schools in Hyderabad with over 6,000 students and over 1,000 additional purpose-built student housing beds for IFIM Institutes at Electronic City, Bangalore. With this Capella now owns over 12 schools and over 5000 student housing beds.

Many companies have reiterated travel-related Covid-19 protocols to curb the spread of Omicron, which has now spread to over 30 countries.

Private equity-backed luxury timepiece retailer Ethos and jewellery retailer Senco are each planning initial public offerings (IPO) that could be launched as early as January next year, people familiar with the matter told ET.

AGS Transact Technologies, one of the country's largest deployers of payment terminals at retail and petroleum outlets, plans to launch its 800-crore initial public offering in the third week of December 2021, said investment bankers.

Dole announced in February 2021 that he'd been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. During his 36-year career on Capitol Hill, Dole became one of the most influential legislators and party leaders in the Senate, combining a talent for compromise with a caustic wit, which he often turned on himself but didn't hesitate to turn on others, too.

Income tax return (ITR) filing has increased to 3.03 crore ITRs for AY 2021-22. 58.98 per cent of these are ITR1 (1.78 crore), 8 per cent is ITR2 (24.42 lakh), 8.7 per cent is ITR3 (26.58 lakh), 23.12 per cent are ITR4 (70.07 lakh), ITR5 (2.14 lakh), ITR6 (0.91 lakh) and ITR7 (0.15 lakh).

The two sides are expected to focus on the situation in Afghanistan and the rising threat of terrorism.