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Share Market LIVE: Nifty reclaims 14,600, Sensex trades mildly higher; Wipro shares up over 3%, RIL falls
Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Domestic equity market benchmarks BSE Sensex and Nifty 50 were trading in positive territory on Friday. via India Infoline
Mamata Says Cooch Behar Tragedy a Conspiracy by BJP to Scare Voters, Calls it ‘Murder of Democracy’
Urging people not to vote for “trigger-happy BJP”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday claimed that the tragedy in Cooch Behar was the “result of a conspiracy” hatched by the saffron party to intimidate voters. Amid polling for the fourth phase of elections on Saturday, four persons...
Amit Shah’s Retort to Mamata on Cooch Behar Killings
Union Minister & BJP leader Amit Shah in Basirhat Dakshin Amit Shah alleged that she is opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act to appease illegal immigrants, who he claimed take benefits of welfare schemes but indulge in riots. PTI Last Updated:April 11, 2021, 19:40 IST FOLLOW US ON: Union Home...
Chinese Regulator Orders Ant Group to Conduct Major Overhaul, Cease Anti-monopoly Practices
Chinese regulators have ordered Ant Group, a financial affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, to become a financial holding company to ease financial oversight amid stepped up scrutiny of technology firms. In a meeting Monday, the central bank and other financial regulators also ordered Ant to cease anti-competitive...
More Cooch Behar-like Killings Possible, Warns Dilip Ghosh; TMC Demands His Arrest
Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh. Strongly reacting to the BJP leader’s statement, TMC demanded his arrest while the CPI(M) said the comment “unmasks the saffron party’s fascist face”. PTI Kolkata Last Updated:April 11, 2021, 22:02 IST FOLLOW US ON: West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Sunday courted fresh...
Amit Shah Playing Divisive Politics Over Cooch Behar Incident: TMC
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of engaging in divisive politics over the death of five people in Cooch Behar district during the fourth phase of polling. Senior party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy told reporters here that Shah was knowingly...
China Opens 5G Signal Station at World’s Highest Radar Location Near Tibet Border
China has opened a 5G signal base at the Ganbala radar station in the remote Himalayan region of Tibet which is the world’s highest manually operated radar station at an elevation of 5,374 meters, the Chinese military’s official website reported on Monday. The mountain is located in Nagarze County...
Cement: Yet another robust quarter in offing
Consensus earnings are yet again likely to be upgraded given better than expected volumes/prices. After posting >40% y-o-y Ebitda growth in each of the past two quarters, cement companies in our coverage universe are likely to repeat the performance in Q4FY21 too. This would be led by 24% y-o-y...
Congress Banks on Rahul’s Bengal Rallies, BJP Hopes They Will End Up Hurting Mamata’s TMC
“We are booking a big ground. Thirty thousand to forty thousand people will be there.” The palpable excitement in the voice of Sankar Malakar, who has been the Congress MLA from Siliguri’s Matigara-Naxalbari seat for the last decade, cannot be missed even on the phone. Malakar, also the working...
Mamata ‘Clean Bowled’, Her Entire Team Asked to Leave Field, Says PM Modi
Drawing a cricket analogy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday the people of Bengal have hit so many fours and sixes in the first four phases of the assembly polls that the BJP has already completed its century and the TMC is on course to being wiped out....
Sebi Slaps Rs 25 Crore Fine on Yes Bank in AT-1 Bonds Case
Markets regulator Sebi on Monday imposed a penalty of Rs 25 crore on Yes Bank in the matter of misselling the lender’s AT-1 bonds few years ago. Besides, the watchdog has imposed a fine of Rs 1 crore on Vivek Kanwar, who was the head of the private wealth...
Telecom: Key enabler of work-from-home culture
In January’21, mobile broadband penetration in India stood at 63.3%, up 680bps from 56.5% in January’20, despite 30-40% tariff hike. Exactly a year ago, we wrote ‘Andra tutto bene’ (everything is going to be alright!) in which we analysed the likely changes to consumption, industry structures, etc. We revisit...
BJP Leader Shot At, Seriously Injured by Assailants in Kannauj Ahead of UP Panchayat Polls
A BJP leader was shot at and seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Chandapur area of the district, police said on Monday. The 48-year-old BJP leader Neeraj Pandey was shot at on Sunday night while he was returning home after seeking votes for a panchayat poll candidate. Superintendent of...
Reliance Sends Oxygen from its Refineries to Help Maharashtra Fight Covid-19 Crisis
Reliance Industries Limited is diverting 100 tons of oxygen streams produced at its refineries to help aid Maharashtra battle the steep rise in daily coronavirus cases, according to reports. RIL, which operates one of the largest refining complexes in Maharashtra has started supplying oxygen from Gujarat’s Jamnagar at no...
Cotton crop estimate increased to 360 lakh bales for 2020-21
The CAI crop committee has estimated the total cotton supply till end of the cotton season 2020-21at 496 lakh bales. The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has marginally increased its crop estimate to 360 lakh bales of 170 kg each from its previous estimate of 358.50 lakh bales in...
Those Threatening More Cooch Behar-like Killings Should Be Banned Politically: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders, said on Monday that those threatening of more Cooch Behar-like killings should be banned politically. She wondered what kind of human beings are politicians who say that there will be more Sitalkuchi-like incidents and that...
Citigroup to Exit 13 Global Consumer Banking Markets, Including China and India
Citigroup announced Thursday it will exit 13 international consumer banking markets, including China and India, shifting its focus to wealth management and away from retail banking where it lacks scale. Citigroup will focus its global consumer banking business on four markets: Singapore, Hong Kong, London and the United Arab...
Tata Power Rating: Buy; Primed for sustainable and clean growth
The realignment of its growth model will top the sustainability index, which is more crucial in our view. We hosted Dr. Praveer Sinha, MD & CEO, Tata Power (TPCL), at the Edelweiss ESG CXO e-Series. Key highlights: (i) Tata Power 2.0 is a mega transformation from legacy to new...
