While some states like Kerala and Telangana were badly hit by the strike, the impact was partial in Punjab, Haryana and Maharashtra
Top gainers from the Sensex pack are ONGC, HDFC, HUL, RIL and Cipla.
'Where the maestro has gone, I am sure Krishna would himself listen to his soulful music.' Sunita Budhiraja recounts her encounters with Balamurali Krishna whose music touched the lives of millions.
Mass agitations are not particularly uncommon in India. But a mass agitation led by an environment-related issue that has gone out of hand is not something that can be easily recalled.
A quick computation puts the following value to the seizures.
Power sector accounts for 70% of total industrial water use; steel, paper also make it to the list.
The government will have to get projects moving.
The JeM terrorists also carried 'armoured piercing steel core ammunition' which can go through Level 3 protection bulletproof vehicles that police and other security forces use, they said. The ammunition was in large quantity and could have posed a grave threat, top police officials said.
The S&P BSE Sensex closed 318 points at 24,455 and the Nifty50 shed 99 points to end at 7,438.
At present, less than one per cent of manufacturing GDP comes from automation in India.
De-allocation could raise import bill by $3 billion, add to coal shortage.
In a major haul, a whopping Rs 29 lakh were seized from a Maoist dump in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, the police said on Tuesday.
Imperious Liverpool extended their Premier League home winning streak against Arsenal to six on Saturday with an easy 4-0 victory that lifted them to second in the table.
Dual methodology for e-auction to introduce price ceiling for power sector
The long-pending project of Tata Iron and Steel Company to set up a ferro-chrome smelter plant at Richards Bay in South Africa may be delayed as local residents voice their objections to the plan over environmental issues.
India's existing web of federal and state sales taxes is levied at different stages of the supply chain and often results in double taxation, while forcing trucks to spend nearly a quarter of their road time in border checks or other inspections.
Devastation struck Venezuela when oil prices started collapsing in 1982, following a global oil glut. The country's economy contracted overnight.
A historic railway service flounders for an inflexible privatisation policy.
Small- and mid-size companies where Cyrus was the chairman did better on bourses than large Tata group companies
The financial year ending Saturday saw such big-ticket events that set the directional tone for the country's business journey.
Thackeray said he was in constant touch with the Centre over the issue of running more trains to ferry migrant labourers, stranded due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, to their native places.
Among other stocks, IT firm Mphasis today reported a 15.30% increase in consolidated net profit at Rs 184.72 crore for the quarter ended September 30, 2015.
Rosneft bought a 49 per cent stake in Essar Oil's refinery port and petrol pumps, while Netherlands-based Trafigura Group Pte, one of the world's biggest commodity trading companies, and Russian investment fund United Capital Partners split another 49 per cent equity equally.
Though the current National Democratic Alliance government has not endorsed the figure, it has not even repudiated it.
In an urgent need for its image makeover, the scam-tainted coal sector will require mammoth efforts in 2015 from the government and the corporates too.
As India gets increasingly urbanised, one man tries to minimise its silent casualty.
Sources claim that 68-70 per cent of the workers at Halol are permanent ones, while the balance is tilted towards contractual workers at Talegaon.
Vikram Kothari, managing director of Rotomac Pens, is now fighting a battle that might be difficult to win.
Everyday coal is illegally ferried on around 5000 bicycles out of the mines of Central Coalfield Limited in Giridih, Jharkhand but no seems to mind. Shahnawaz Akhtar reports
The broader NSE Nifty ended at 10,888, a gain of 0.77 per cent or 83 points, after shuttling between 10,900.35 and 10,844.85.
TCS still ace in the pack
Rajesh Alva reviews the latest addition to the KTM stable.
The farmers' tractor rally - Kisaan Parade - against the farm laws was expected to be held after 12 pm. However, huge crowds gathered on the borders at around 8 am.
Acquisition of stressed infrastructure assets has pushed its debt to over Rs 1 lakh crore, highlighting concerns about its growth strategy.
On the occasion of the first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's 125th birth anniversary, Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com visits his residence of 16 years, and comes away marvelling at his enduring legacy.
Five out of the top 10 companies in Fortune 500 list of Indian companies are from the oil sector.
All the sectoral indices, led by realty, metal, consumer durables and power were trading in the negative zone on Thursday.
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