Markets under pressure; IT financials grab spotlight.
Some leading Indian companies are likely to see their earnings declining if the Indian currency depreciates further, analysts and finance heads say.
This car commemorates the first Jaguar XJ 1, which was launched in 1968 and was widely acknowledged at the time to be one of the best automobiles ever made
Firms to find alternative export routes or face increased trade barriers
The ISRO is looking at Mangalyaan-2, a follow-on mission to Mars, and launching two satellites that would look at Venus and explore asteroids.
However, investors have turned cautious over the likelihood of Britain leaving the European Union.
Global expansion to drive the company's fortunes
During campaigning, P Chidambaram has been addressing villagers, explaining his efforts to improve life in the constituency and blaming the state government for not supporting him. He has also been introducing his son in the 10 villages across 250 km.
The S&P BSE Sensex surged 160 points to close at 25,262.
Ratan Tata was the first one to realise that Indian companies had become a prisoner to tradition and needed to radically innovate.
I urge you all to watch the special moments of Chandrayaan-2 descending on to the Lunar South Pole! Do share your photos on social media. I will re-tweet some of them too," the prime minister wrote on Twitter.
Investors booked profit ahead of the outcome of the two-day US Fed policy meet which begins today.
With cash shortage and plans going awry, the AirAsia owner is looking to cash out of the venture he built with Ratan Tata in 2013.
FPIs sold shares worth a net Rs 1236.95 crore on Friday.
While New Jersey, US-based OrbitBeyond leads a consortium of subcontractors who have designed and developed hardware for deep space missions, Bengaluru-based Team Indus is leading OrbitBeyond's lander engineering, reports T E Narasimhan.
Broader markets outperformed with BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap adding 0.23% and 0.45%, respectively
NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, on Monday successfully landed on the Martian surface.
Indian markets ended on a lower note after the stimulus announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) failed to meet expectation.
China on Sunday successfully placed 20 micro satellites into space using its latest carrier rocket powered by pollution-free fuels, boosting the Communist giant's competitiveness in the global satellite launch sector, state media reported.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a memorial in London dedicated to Dr B R Ambedkar over two months after India acquired the bungalow where the Dalit icon and architect of India's Constitution lived as a student in the 1920s.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said bilateral cooperation in defence manufacturing would be the "prime focus" of his visit to the United Kingdom.
Indian Space Research Organisation will announce a revised launch date later.
'If he gets a couple of early wickets, he will be a different bowler but things may not go as per plan. It might take some time for him to get back the rhythm.'
The BSE IT sector, however, failed to snap a three-day losing streak and closed around 0.14 per cent lower.
All sectoral indices, led by realty, PSU, oil & gas and banking, were in positive zone with gains of up to 1.25 per cent.
Fear factors weights on markets, Sensex, Nifty struggle to keep pace.
Asian markets were trading mixed with shares in China witnessing profit taking after sharp gains in the previous session.
Experts attribute the high valuation of Indian auto makers to the faster growth in India compared to the rest of the world.
The broader Nifty, after touching a high (intra-day) of 10,555.50 points, finished at 10,539.75, up 84.80 points, or 0.81 per cent.
Markets closed the day in green on favourable domestic factors,
Rebound in IT majors TCS and Infosys in late trades helped markets end higher.
Markets ended lower amid volatile trade with Sun Pharma leading the decline.
The 30-share Sensex and the 50-share Nifty ended flat at the mark of 29,008 and 8,767 respectively.
The broader markets are outperforming the benchmark indices.
Tracking of the Schiaparelli robot's radio signals was dropped less than a minute before it was expected to touch down on the Red Planet's surface.
In one of the biggest deals in the outsourced product development (OPD) market, audio and infotainment systems maker Harman International Industries will buy Indian-born serial entrepreneur Romesh Wadhwani's Symphony Teleca for $780 million (about Rs 4,800 crore at Friday's exchange rate of 61.4).
Although Russia, United States and China have achieved a soft landing on the lunar surface, India is aiming at becoming the first one to explore the south pole of the Moon.
The Chandrayaan-2 will conduct the next level of scientific studies on the Moon, writes T E Narasimhan.
Leverage ratio falls to under 1; but group heavily dependent on TCS & Tata Motors.
Top gainers from the Sensex pack are ONGC, HDFC, HUL, RIL and Cipla.
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