Many others are feared to have been trapped under the debris. Rescue work is on, as per last reports.
The Sensex closed higher by 170 points at 26,128 and the Nifty rose 59 points to end at 7,943.
ONGC was the top performer while private banking major ICICI Bank extended gains
Govt keen to revive business sentiment in india.
Jammu and Kashmir MLA Ramesh Arora wants momos banned, but are they really unhygienic and harmful?
The 30-share Sensex ended down 35 points at 26,349 and the 50-share Nifty ended down 20 points at 7,864.
Deepak Narang, executive director of United Bank of India, speaks on Vijay Mallya's 'wilful defaulter' status.
The S&P BSE Sensex gained 115 points to end at 24,338 and the Nifty50 climbed 42 points to close at 7,404.
BSE Bankex and Telecom indices led the fall.
Janmejaya Sinha lays down Urjit Patel's agenda - cleaning up bank balance sheets, evaluating robustness of CPI and pushing for digitisation in financial services.
From farmers to cement, steel, logistics, transportation and automobiles, the back-end is struggling to get going due to the liquidity crisis.
The International Paralympic Committee has suspended the Paralympic Committee of India for indefinite period for infighting within the national body and shoddy treatment meted out to athletes during the National Para-Athletics Championships at Ghaziabad last month.
King Salman and Narendra Modi will find common ground to intensify cooperation against jihadi terrorism, says Tarun Vijay, MP.
Higher disposable incomes, rural push and infra push to boost auto sector
Zarreen Khan's book Koi Good News? is hilarious journal of a reluctant Indian couple's journey into parenthood.
Several relatives of the killed workers said they were not officially informed about their loved ones by any government authority.
Bombay House turns evangelist for new Tata products.
The sluggish legal system in India makes it extremely difficult for law-enforcing agencies in the ministry of finance to punish violations of foreign exchange laws. Unfortunately, it is not just FEMA. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act too has significant infirmities, say Paranjoy Guha Thakurta and Pranati Mehra.
The Bill comes at a time when prospective home buyers are avoiding under-construction projects, almost everywhere in the country, thereby drying up sources of interest-free funds for debt-ridden developer firms
Deep down, Katragadda is still that boy who makes as well as sells soap
Sanjay Khan goes back in time with memories of the Mysore fire tragedy.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
As the new ecommerce paradigm works its way through multiple sectors of the economy it is likely to encounter legal challenges, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
HDFC twins, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank and SBI from the financial space gained between 1-2.7%.
'Till the time the MSM and Modi don't trust one another, expect more Nirmala Sitharamans springing out from nowhere,' says Sudhir Bisht.
Managing expectations is a challenge for policymakers.
Jacob Fugger could always add value for his customers. He made himself indispensable. That kept him in the game
Shares of ING Vysya Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank rallied by up to 6% on the BSE on reports that Kotak Mahindra Bank in final stages to buy the bank.
Dr Manmohan Singh's role in the sordid saga of the Coal Allocation Scam was always Delhi's worst-kept secret; calls for his interrogation will mushroom after he was named by P C Parakh, says T V R Shenoy.
The shift to gross calorific value-based grading of coal aligned domestic prices with international benchmarks.
The 7th Pay Commission recommendations are a major challenge for the Railways.
The means to do so via an expanded Aadhaar system is easily at hand, too.
Why are the 'secular' parties silent about the lynchings on our streets? Are they so busy forging political alliances that they ignore the numerous distortions of Constitutional values?
However, the budget arithmetic is slightly optimistic.
'If the government had not spent an incredible amount of energy on demonetisation it may -- may, because it had not done anything the previous six months either -- have been able to pay attention to the deeper problems of low investment and job creation.'
Global disinflation has finally caught up with India's high-cost economy.
'The summer of 1857 saw violence, perpetrated by the Indians and the Britons, on an unprecedented scale.' 'Never before and never after in the history of British rule in India was there violence at the level that 1857 witnessed.'
Sensex hit a record high of 27,225.85 and Nifty hit a record high of 8,141.90 in the intra-day trades today.
