Strong gains in Vedanta Ltd, Adani Ports, Bharti Airtel and Maruti Suzuki helped the index touch record levels.
The broader NSE Nifty gained 22 points to 10,480.60
Car makers are cautiously optimistic, even as two-wheeler firms are clearly upbeat.
Most exit polls have forecast gains for Congress in at least four states including a clear majority in Rajasthan.
Over 22 passenger and commercial vehicle makers and 18 two- and three-wheeler makers will take part amid proximate security.
'Gods of different religions haven't warred, so we shouldn't either.'
Gold buyers in Asia were in no hurry, anticipating the market to weaken further, with premiums in India and Hong Kong picking up only modestly this week
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Most of the session's gains for both the indices were wiped out as investors rushed to book profits ahead of F&O expiry on Thursday and also due to concerns over stretched valuations.
Just 20 years old, Inderlal Kamalsingh Dhurve is a migrant labourer, a part-time farmer, a sole breadwinner and one of four survivors from the group that was mowed down by a goods train near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, 10 days ago, claiming 16 lives.
The rupee ended lower by 7 paise to 62.31 against the American currency on fresh dollar demand from banks.
S&P BSE Midcap shed 0.8% while S&P BSE Smallcap tumbled 0.6%
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The Reserve Bank of India late on Wednesday unveiled rules to restrict how much its citizens and companies can invest abroad and announced additional curbs on gold imports.
Gold slipped to near 5-1/2-year lows on Friday and was on course for a sixth straight weekly fall.
Indian CEOS are very innovative, says a PwC report.
Among Sensex constituents, Vedanta fell 3.40 per cent, followed by SBI 3.17 per cent, Yes Bank 3.11 per cent, Axis Bank 1.68 per cent, ONGC 1.60 per cent, Power Grid 1.52 per cent and HDFC 1.48 per cent.
Winning the series is out of the question, but Australia vice-captain David Warner insists his team will not give up on trying to force a turnaround against India and make a statement before the upcoming Ashes.
Sonia told party MPs to work with dedication, loyalty and enthusiasm with Rahul to strengthen the party and said he was her boss to.
The IG Prison was not categorical about the effective date of parole and said it depended upon when the jail authorities would release him.
Investors sought to book profits at attractive valuations after recent run up in last few trading sessions.
ITC, Sun Pharma, HDFC and Coal India were among the top gainers.
Extending its losing streak for the fourth straight day, the rupee weakened by five paise to 61.01 against the US dollar in early trade today at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market on high demand for the American currency from importers.
The party president also said that India's self-confidence, pride and scale of ambition have grown manifold in three years.
Realtors split on possibility of price fall, gold may replace cash in secondary deals.
Ahead of the G-20 summit in Osaka this week, Xi has reasserted China's role as a global player, points out Dr Rajaram Panda.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
Real estate biggies unhappy with status quo on RBI rate cut.
While markets are upbeat over the government decision to nearly double the price of domestically produced natural gas, industry wants it to clearly lay the roadmap for free market pricing regime.
Moody's earlier this week lowered its growth forecast to 7 per cent, from 7.5 per cent.
Technology can certainly gain India membership in the comity of modern nations in the 21st century.
With global markets pushing ahead, enthused by strengthening US jobs market, and also due to prospects of European rate hike, Indian markets also continued the march ahead.
Analysts said FIIs had created long positions worth Rs 9,700 crore (Rs 97 billion) in index futures till recently.
India is only on the starting block.
In the broader market, the S&P BSE Midcap and the S&P BSE Smallcap indices added 0.6% and 1.3%, respectively to touch their fresh lifetime highs.
The MF Industry had a cash-rich 2014 as it crossed the Rs 3 trillion mark.
The 50-share NSE Nifty gained 53.30 points or 0.61 per cent to 8,778.
With the government not continuing with lower excise duty beyond December 31, major car makers, including Maruti Suzuki, Hyundai, GM India and Honda have raised vehicle prices by up to Rs 127,000.
Tata Group's CLiQ is the latest to join the e-commerce club, to compete with the likes of Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal.
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