Shares of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) hit a new high of Rs 4,512 after surging 8 per cent on the BSE in Wednesday's intra-day trade, on the back of heavy volumes, ahead of 1:5 stock split. The trading volumes on the counter more-than-doubled today, with a combined 7.02 million equity shares having changed hands on the NSE and BSE till 11:19 am. In the past one week, the stock of the state-owned travel support services company has rallied 20 per cent after the company on September 29, 2021, said that it has fixed October 29, 2021 as the record date, to ascertain the name of shareholders entitled for subdivision/split of equity shares of Rs 10 each into five (5) equity shares of face value of Rs 2 each.
Software companies registered with STPs in Haryana, UP, Delhi, West Bengal and Orissa have also posted strong growth.
Titan was the biggest gainer in the Sensex pack, rallying 7.97 per cent, followed by ITC, HDFC, Bajaj Finance, and Tata Steel.
Tuesday's top gainers included SBI, UltraTech Cement, HDFC Bank, L&T, Bharti Airtel, Maruti Suzuki and Kotak Bank.
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Online festival sales jumped by a whopping 117 per cent to Rs 115 crore (Rs 1.15 billion) from Rs 53 crore (Rs 530 million) in 2004-2005 as a larger number of Indians shopped via Internet during the 2005-06 festive season, a study reported.
On the Sensex chart, index heavyweight HDFC rallied over 8 per cent. Other prominent gainers were IndusInd Bank, Mahindra and Mahindra, Asian Paints, Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank and Ultratech Cement.
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Private lenders HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank were the top gainers along with index heavyweights
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The Sensex opened with a strong gain of 35 points at 6,170, and exhibited a fluctuating trend during the intra-day trades today.
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Asian Paints, Axis Bank, UltraTech Cement, IndusInd Bank and Bajaj Finance were also among the gainers. The NSE Nifty rallied 171.25 points or 1.52 per cent to 11,449.25.
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Total income rose to Rs 19,322.63 crore during the quarter under review, was up 17.08 as against Rs 16,502.97 crore.
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Markets extended gains led by financials and capital goods shares coupled with a rebound in IT shares.
Salaries in the information technology sector went up by an average of 19 per cent in 2004 with senior level professionals gaining the most, according to Dataquest-IDC survey.
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Car sales went up by an 18 per cent in July 2004 for the fourth consecutive month this fiscal buoyed by Maruti, Hyundai and Tata Motors.
The NSE Nifty ended at 3142, up 98 points. The market breadth was fairly positive - out of 2,655 stocks traded, 1,809 advanced, 777 declined and the rest were unchanged on Tuesday.
Maruti Udyog on Monday said its net profit soared by 42.1 per cent to Rs 170.9 crore during the quarter ended June 30, 2004 against Rs 120.2 crore during the year-ago period, buoyed by a 19 per cent jump in sales volume.
Amid stiff competition from private and foreign players, the country's 27 public sector banks logged 35 per cent growth in profit at Rs 16,546 crore (Rs 165.46 billion) while their bad assets fell below 3 per cent during 2003-04.
Driven by the top three carmakers -- Maruti, Hyundai and Tata Motors -- the car sales surged by 25 per cent in June 2004 over the same month last year.
Six of the top 10 most valued Indian firms added a cumulative Rs 86,683.71 crore in market valuation last week, with HDFC twins emerging as the biggest gainers. On the top 10 chart, HDFC Bank, HDFC, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Bharti Airtel and HCL Technologies were gainers. While, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) and Infosys saw erosion in their market valuation.
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