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Yesterday, drugmaker Pfizer announced that early analysis of its coronavirus vaccine trial suggested the vaccine (developed in conjunction with BioNTech) was robustly effective in preventing Covid-19. And while multiple pharma companies have released details about their own vaccines so far, there is a lot of optimism surrounding Pfizer’s announcement. So why are people this excited you ask?

In today's episode, we talk about NPCI's latest ruling and how it might affect payment applications like Google Pay.

Hero MotoCorp put out its sales figures for the month of October and it surprised almost everyone. The company said it had recorded the highest sales figure ever and experts were visibly surprised with the announcement considering we are in the midst of a pandemic. So we thought we could look at Hero, its current performance and see how the company has fared over the past couple decades.

In today's Finshots, we talk about a unique problem facing India right now

In today's Finshots, we talk about Ant Financial and how its plans to go public went awry at the last moment.

In today's Finshots, we talk about the first coal auction since the reforms.

In today's Finshots, we talk about China, castor seeds, and conspiracy theories.

A couple of days back, Infosys announced that the company had reduced its carbon footprint and turned carbon neutral 30 years ahead of the 2050 timeline. So we thought we could look at this story and see how they got here.

Airtel just reported its latest quarterly results and while the company could not muster a profit, there’s been a lot of optimism surrounding its future prospects. So in this week’s Finshots Markets, we thought we could look at Bharti Airtel and see why analysts think this might be a turning point for the company.

In today’s Finshots, we talk about the changing landscape of the smartphone industry in India and Micromax’s place in it.