It was the second straight week of gains for the benchmarks.
A statement from the French Tennis Federation on Thursday confirmed the U-turn by the 39-year-old who had been named in June to become the first woman to captain the French team.
In its daily briefing, the government also reported Goa is now free of coronavirus.
After the euphoria, "affordable" realty developers are faced with the reality of excesses.
The policy brief for a Global Green New Deal, developed by economists and the UN ahead of the G-20 meeting of world leaders in London in early April, highlights the benefits of investing a significant amount of the $3 trillion-worth of global stimulus packages in five areas. The UN Environment Programme said these areas include raising the energy efficiency of old and new buildings, more emphasis on renewable energy sources.
US Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez has said that with the signing of the historic and landmark US-India civilian nuclear deal it is now imperative that India move quickly to enact nuclear liability protection to envisage the private sector of both countries to engage in business.
The apex court directed the Centre to frame guidelines on the matter.
'The safety regulations drastically reduce the chances of contracting the virus on a two-hour flight.'
The NGT also constituted a committee to oversee the execution of work pertaining to cleaning of the river.
The sticking point remains the argument over a revenue share scheme which has underpinned contracts for 20 years.
Faced with the prospect of a humiliating 0-3 series whitewash, a desperate India would be aiming to bounce back to winning ways against an unrelenting South Africa in the third and final Test, starting in Johannesburg, on Wednesday.
In this COVID-19 phase, the BJP leveraged its pre-eminence again to tip the power scales in its favour and relegate its allies in the National Democratic Alliance to a lesser position. Radhika Ramaseshan reports.
The 50-component Nifty closed at 10,214.75, a solid gain of 96.70 points, or 0.96 per cent
'Tiger reserves were created to protect areas from developmental activities.' 'If we go ahead with these projects, then it is a complete mockery of our institutions and our laws, it is against everything we have stood for, our Forest Conservation Act, our Wildlife Biodiversity Act.'
The Nifty ended 2.46% higher (45 points) at 1,883.
The Nifty, too, firmed up on broad-based buying support, and scaled up 1.24% or 22 points to close at 1,772.
'It must be rendering Modi, Amit Shah and Adityanath speechless that the Indian diplomat who lifted the Azhar trophy at the UN in New York is also a Muslim. 'Yes, this is the wonder that was India,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Sensex gained 11 points to open at 5,412. Though slight weakness is seen in tech and cement stocks, steady gains in select heavyweights, PSUs, pharma and other old economy counters lifted the index
Even after UBS Global Asset Management's $220 million deal to acquire Standard Chartered Bank's mutual fund management business in India fell through, the Swiss financial services giant exuded confidence that it will beef up its asset management business operations in the sub-continent.
The Sensex opened with a gain of eight points at 5,831. Selling in heavyweights, PSUs and tech majors dragged the index below the 5,800 mark to an early low of 5,793.
'Since the bilateral deficit is a reality -- and a worry -- we need to find a way to deal with it,' says Ravi Bhoothalingam.
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The aim is to replace nearly 40 per cent of its existing last mile fleet of delivery vans with EVs by March 2020. o start with, the company is looking at deploying nearly 160 e-vans by the end of 2019.
'There is never a safe choice in the movie business.' 'Everything is chance.'
'Tanhaji has so much fun recreating a bygone legend and fictionalising history, authenticity and spellings, it gets infectious,' feels Sukanya Verma.
The draw interrupted a run of four straight league wins for Zinedine Zidane's side and left them second on 67 points after 31 games, three behind leaders Atletico who thrashed Eibar 5-0 earlier in the day.
Mohun Bagan skipper and star striker Bhaichung Bhutia was on Friday ruled out for 15-20 days due to knee and ankle injury dealing a serious blow to the green-and-maroons bid to add to their 12 Federation Cup titles.
'The highlight of the interview process is it is robotic.'
The Congress president questioned the government over unfulfilled promises and questioned the Rafale deal.
Investors booked profits in range-bound trade, led by PSU, oil & gas, energy, infrastructure, telecom, realty, healthcare, bankex, FMCG, capital goods and power counters.
The Sensex opened lower with a gap of 12 points at 5,981. The index witnessed mixed trends as buying in specific stocks lifted it to a high of 6,006, but slipped immediately to a low of 5,950 on selling pressure in almost all the sectors.
The broader NSE Nifty, after shuttling between 10,600.25 and 10,491.45 points, ended the last session of Samvat 2074 with a rise of 6 points, or 0.06 per cent, to end at 10,530.
Ushering in a new era of movie watching, the Union government allowed multiplexes, cinema halls and theatres to reopen from Thursday within the framework of a set of standard operating procedures.
India opener Murali Vijay is relieved that his off-the field friendship with KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan has helped him deal with sensitive selection matters with ease.
'If the CPI-M cannot mend relations with Dr Manmohan Singh, it may find that Congress boss Sonia Gandhi is still willing to talk.'
In a video conference with the chief ministers, fourth such interaction since March 22 when he first spoke to them about the pandemic, Modi stressed on the need for the states to strictly enforce lockdown guidelines in the coronavirus hotspots zones, and strongly pitched for the mantra of 'do gaz doori' (a distance of two yards) to protect people from the infection, according to a government statement.
Europeans are feeling the effects of the "Beast from the East," which refers to frigid winds blowing east to west from Siberia toward the United Kingdom. Temperatures have plunged as much as 20 degrees Celsius below average for this time of year, thanks to these frigid winds. Take a look at how Europe is coping after being dumped with heavy snow.
Rambo is invincible, sure. The film, however, is not.
"Fifteen years ago, I was leading the efforts to approve the historic civil nuclear deal with India. I said that if the US and India became closer friends and partners, then the world will be a safer place," Biden, who was vice-president in the Obama administration, said while addressing the Indian-American community on India's Independence Day.
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