The record breaking spree was led by index heavyweights, financials and metal stocks.
Deal comes within days of Abu Dhabi's TAQA pulling out of agreement.
In the broader market, BSE midcap and BSE smallcap indices underperformed the larger counterparts and ended flat with a negative bias.
In an online chat with readers on August 10, Vidya Bala, Vidya Bala, head of mutual fund research at FundsIndia, answered their queries. For hose who missed the chat, here is the transcript.
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Vandana has been attempting to bring in radical changes in the unhealthy food habits amongst the tribals.
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Sensex catapults 1,241 points and Nifty vaults 382 points in two sessions in a row.
The S&P BSE Sensex shed 286 points to close at 24,539 and the Nifty50 lost 100 points to end at 7,456.
The Sensex ended down 251 points at 27,351 and the Nifty shed 65 points to close at 8,228.
Nifty50 surged 87 points to end at 8,157, highest closing levels since Oct 29, 2015.
The Sensex closed higher by 170 points at 26,128 and the Nifty rose 59 points to end at 7,943.
The 30-share Sensex ended down by 59 points at 27,027 and the 50-share Nifty slipped 7 points at 8,087.
'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,'says S Muralidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
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The 30-share Sensex and the 50-share Nifty ended flat at the mark of 29,008 and 8,767 respectively.
Subrata Roy turned up at a New Delhi stadium, best known for hosting the Commonwealth Games, last week as part of his country wide Abhaar Yatra.
Start 2017 with these five simple financial resolutions and you will put your family on solid ground financially, says D P Singh, executive director and chief marketing officer, SBI Mutual Fund.
Most large fund houses, such as HDFC MF, ICICI Prudential AMC, Reliance MF, Reliance MF, Birla SunLife MF and SBI MF, have the backing of large banks or financial institutions, giving them reach and understanding, they say.
The Sensex ended up 380 points at 27,888 and the Nifty advanced 111 points to end five points shy of 8,400.
'To ensure you remain with the better performers, you need to consistently monitor your MF portfolios and weed out the non-performers, even if they are from a star fund manager or a fund house with a sound record.'
Tata Motors, ONGC, HDFC and TCS were the top gainers.
The rally in index heavyweight ITC has boosted the sentiment across the board.
Market breadth continued to remain strong, with 1899 gainers and 674 losers on the BSEs.
ONGC was the top gainer which surged over 4% followed by Axis, SBI, CIL
Nifty, which has struggled around 8550-8560 levels managed to blast past this resistance and close above the psychological mark of 8600.
Lenders have lined up a number of home loan products that can fit every aspirant's annual income.
Custodian banks are selling dollars for their foreign fund clients.
The focus is on tapping all resources, even foreign agencies.
It could be a matter of concern that foreign shareholders of the NSE are registered in tax havens such as Mauritius and Cyprus.
Event-based volatility could rise in the near future, increasing arbitrage opportunities.
Lenders have lined up a number of home loan products that can fit every aspirant's annual income.
The government's critics say that the Prime Minister failed to rein in vicious and unprecedented personal attacks on the central bank chief by the likes of Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy.
Five of the 12 BSE sectoral indices ended at 52-week highs; the oil and gas index zoomed by nearly 5%.
Dream rally: Investors' wealth doubled in 5 years in India's equity market on Friday.
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