The Nifty also extended gains at 5,519 up 60 points from its previous close.
Flamboyant opener Virender Sehwag on Thursday said he and and Rahul Dravid did not even once discuss their different batting styles even as they struck contrasting centuries on the opening day of the first cricket Test against New Zealand in Ahmedabad.
There was acceleration in prices of fuel and power (11.69 per cent) and manufactured products (2.55 per cent).
Counting of votes will take place on February 23. Model code comes into force.
Free wifi with a speed of upto 50 mbps was rolled out on Friday across the six stations on Delhi Metro's premium Airport Express line.
India pacer Jasprit Bumrah was more than happy to take advantage of the helpful conditions with ball in hand and the 25-year-old took great pains to ensure the magnitude of the occasion didn't adversely affect him.
Struggling with his form, a downcast Australian skipper Ricky Ponting on Tuesday crashed out of top 20 Test batsmen list for the first time in nearly a decade in the latest ICC ranking.
Images of the fourth day's play of the second Ashes Test in Adelaide on Monday
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list IPL 2020's 50 Most Valuable Players up to Match 25.
Mumbai rode on Akhil Herwadkar's century and a quickfire fifty from Suryakumar Yadav to post a healthy 303 for six at close of play on day one of their quarter-final clash against Jharkhand in Mysore, on Wednesday.
England batsman Jos Buttler smashed an unbeaten 110 off 55 balls as the hosts beat Pakistan by 12 runs in a thrilling run-packed second One-Day International on Saturday. Buttler's blitzkrieg and half-centuries by Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow and skipper Eoin Morgan helped England to a huge total of 373 for three wickets in 50 overs.
The forex reserves rose for the third consecutive week, surging by a robust $2.691 billion to $286.26 billion on a healthy jump in foreign currency assets, the Reserve Bank said.
The total volume of government securities traded during the first quarter of this fiscal went up by almost 18 per cent to Rs 21,72,022 crore (Rs 21,720.22 billion) due to growth in securities transacted outright, especially dated papers.
The rupee weakened by 27 paise to trade at six-week low of 60.45 against the US dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on high demand for the American currency from importers.
The industry needs stimuli to help revive consumer demand and conversions.
Former England skipper Nasser Hussain has said that fast bowler Stuart Broad needs to manage his temper on the cricket field.
China and India, the most populous nations, lifted more from slum conditions than any other countries, says a United Nations report which appeared in the Christian Science Monitor.
Mobile phone service providers alone jointly reported gross revenue of Rs 55,164.18 crore (RS 551.64 billion).
Pakistani forces fought pitched battles with Taliban fighters in their bid to wrest their hub of Sararogha in South Waziristan killing 34 militants to raise the terrorist death toll to 227, but lost 11 soldiers as insurgents opened new fronts in the lawless region.
Traders said restricted buying from jewellers and retailers mainly kept precious metals at previous levels.
Passengers carried by all airlines in January stood at 41.41 lakhs (4.14 million), compared to 33.76 lakh (3.37 million) in 2009, registering a growth of 22.7 per cent, official air traffic figures released on Friday, said.
Domestic passenger car sales jumped by 39.48 per cent to 1,43,976 units in April. The figure for the corresponding month of the last year was 1,03,227 units.
The share price of other ADA group firms declined as well, including Reliance Infrastructure (lost Rs 1,660 crore), Reliance Communication (Rs 867.5 crore), Reliance Capital (637 crore) and Reliance MediaWorks (Rs 60 crore).
"Let those who want to align with the Congress do so. We won't stop them," Fadnavis said, in an apparent reference to reports that the Shiv Sena was toying with the idea of roping in the Congress to bag the Mumbai mayor's post.
Average data usage on Airtel India network grew about three fold to 2611 megabyte (about 2.5 GB) per customer from 904 MB on YoY basis. But the average revenue from the data services per customer declined by 22.7 per cent during the period.
Shiv Sena nominee Hemangi Worlikar romped home as the deputy Mayor of BMC.
West Indies fast bowling great Courtney Walsh agreed to become Bangladesh's bowling coach and will begin his three-year role this week, the country's cricket board said on Thursday.
The Nifty, retained the 5,000 level and ended at 5,088 -- up 71 points. Exports in January grew as services and manufacturing activity jumped.
As per the ministry's updated data on coronavirus cases Saturday morning, six fresh deaths were reported -- three from Maharahtra, two from Delhi and one from Gujarat.
The auto maker, which is recalling more than a million vehicles in different parts of the world, had a loss of 164.7 billion yen in the same period a year ago. In the third quarter of fiscal year 2010, consolidated vehicle sales jumped 227,000 units, Toyota said on Thursday.
This is the second largest decline in the world. In 2007, India had posted 22.7 per cent growth, the fastest in that year.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji reveal the Most Valuable Players of the Inda-Australia ODI series.
A total of 635 companies have declared their third-quarter results and reported 22 per cent rise in revenue and 47.3 per cent growth in net profit on an average.
Abhinav Mukund hit a master class century as Rest of India (ROI) took full control against Mumbai in the Irani Cup. The fourth day's play ensured that ROI take a sizeable lead of 382 runs, thanks to the 227-run partnership between Mukund and Murali Vijay.
According to the data released by General Administration of Customs on Tuesday, imports too, increased by 22.7 per cent from a year earlier to $116.79 billion but the pace of growth on month-on-month basis was less than 34.1 per cent in June.
Bank loan defaults rose to Rs 74,685 crore (Rs 746.85 billion) at the end of March 2010, with non-performing assets of public sector banks reaching Rs 57,301 crore (Rs 573.01 billion), Parliament was informed on Tuesday.
Facts and figures about the Wimbledon men's tournament which starts on June 23 in London.
India's forex reserves surged by a whopping $5.04 billion to $291.3 billion in the week ended November 29 on account of a robust jump in foreign currency assets (FCAs), the Reserve Bank said.
The praise for peasants, most of whom are subsistence farmers, comes ahead of general elections due in a few months. The minister presented statistics to hard-sell the government's initiatives to prop up the agriculture sector and improve the conditions of roughly about 60 per cent of the country's population depending upon it.
