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After hitting a low of 30,474.15 during the day, the 30-share BSE barometer ended 469.60 points or 1.51 per cent lower at 30,690.02.
Equity benchmark Sensex plummeted over 2,100 points and the Nifty gave up the 7,900 level in the opening session on Thursday as global gloom over the COVID-19 pandemic continued to hammer equities.
Thirteen wagons of one of the trains and an engine jumped off the tracks following the collision.
The US-Iran flare-up pushed up oil prices on fears of supply disruptions.
The 30-share Sensex rose by 199.31 points or 0.49 per cent to end at a new life-time high of 41,020.61 as 24 of its constituents ended in the green.
While the Centre will strategically disinvest Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL), Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), it will sell its entire stake in THDC India Ltd and North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) to another state-run power major, NTPC.
Extending its euphoria over government's economy-boosting measures, equity benchmark BSE Sensex soared over 1,300 points to reclaim the 39,000 mark in early session on Monday.
India's retail inflation rate eased slightly in July, staying below the central bank's 4 per cent medium-term target for a 12th straight month, strengthening views that there will be a policy rate cut in October.
Indian shares have witnessed a rally over Modi's landslide victory in the general elections last week.
Prime Minister Modi led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a thumping victory for the second term in office, winning an absolute majority and on course to touch the 300-seat mark in the 543-member Lok Sabha.