Sensex lacklustre, bluechips in focus.
The 30-share Sensex is up 253 points at 29,263 and the 50-share Nifty has gained 68 points at 8,829.
Move to keep pace with tech landscape; senior employees might be affected
The eyewear market in India is worth $3 billion.
A policy-related problem that urgently needs to be redressed is the 'miniaturisation' of projects.
On the last day of FY!5, the Sensex ended lower by 18.37 points at 27,957.49.
Bharti Airtel, HDFC, ONGC, ITC and CIL emerged as the top gainers.
A glance back at some important events that occurred in 2018.
Auto stocks Hero MotoCorp and Mahindra & Mahindra gained 1-2 per cent on the back of strong sales in the month of September.
For the seven months since February 2014, the benchmark index surged nearly 27%.
Sensex climbs higher on favourable global cues.
We won't see a bigger decline in mining going forward, but it might remain flat in July-August 2014.
The Sensex ended at a fresh record closing high of 28,889 while Nifty ended at a fresh record closing high of 8,730.
The year 2014 has been an eventful one for India. The country got a new government and a new state, broke new frontiers in various fields and of course its share of controversies.
'Expectations were being built up about radical moves and the action plan did not disappoint.'
Markets across the globe gained after China Securities Regulator removed its four-day-old circuit-breaker system.
The 30-share Sensex surged 299 points to close at 28,736 and the 50-share Nifty gained 90 points to end at 8,723.
Jindal Steel and Power was the top loser down 10% followed by Hindalco, Tata Steel, Tata Power which ended down between 0.5-3% each.
The Nifty had hit its third successive record high of 7,922.70 today.
T N Ninan lists a few David-Goliath encounters in the Indian markets, all of which make life interesting, though difficult if you are an investor looking for the next multi-bagger.
The index had risen over 585 points in the previous three sessions.
The sharp fall in the rupee's value against the dollar during the July-September quarter, it turns out, has come as a boon for corporate earnings.
Markets extended gains led by financials and capital goods shares coupled with a rebound in IT shares.
India has been ranked at 142 among 189 countries in the latest World Bank's "Ease of Doing Business" report, a drop by two places from the last year's ranking.
Faces are important in India, because people connect with people, not concepts.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has to deal with 3 powerful enemies: the media, the political establishment, and business houses.
Constantly evolving rules and anomalies over tax treatment have constrained corporate programmes in the first year that the government's CSR mandate has been in force.
The media wittingly or otherwise has been a key player in stymying the AAP. It is not so much the rivals, but the media, mostly the television and from its cues, large sections of the print segment, who got the trophy. The political parties, especially BJP and Congress, can now laugh in their sleeves, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.
'They don't always agree with our governments, their teachers or their parents, but it is the conviction of their ideas, and their determination to share them with the world that, I believe, is one of the greatest sources of hope for our planet.' 'The colonisation of space, understanding the very building blocks of matter and the universe, utilising our understanding of the human genome to conquer disease -- these are the tasks waiting for a fellowship of minds to realise new triumphs in our collective destiny.'
'AAP has to run a marathon and could face a new crisis on the way. The beauty is to learn from the crisis, correct the mistakes and move forward.'
The entrepreneur reveals interesting nuggets about her life and career.
Raamdeo Agrawal says, an investor should figure out if the company actually makes money or not, making an investment comes later.
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