The divestment proceeds could surpass the budget target this year due to the upcoming initial public offerings of ONGC and GAIL, though the current bull phase in stock markets did not fuel the primary markets in 2003, NCAER said on Wednesday.
Financials declined amid profit taking while energy shares fell after the government hiked excise duty on transport fuels.
Bus and auto fares in the national capital are likely to go up after Indraprastha Gas Ltd announced a hike in the price of compressed natural gas for transport vehicles from July 1.\n\n
World record holders Stacy Dragila and Regina Jacobs and former Olympic champions Allen Johnson and Gail Devers lead the challenge.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corp has asked the government to review the scheme of sharing of liquefied petroleum gas and kerosene subsidy with upstream firms and said the scheme should not be extended beyond March 2004.
It will be Reliance Industries' gigantic gas find on the east coast versus the imported LNG offered by ONGC and Indian Oil Corporation in the tender for supply of gas to the 1400 MW power plant in Karnataka.
Power Trading Corporation's initial public offering of 5.85 crore (58.5 million) shares was oversubscribed by about two times on day one, sources associated with the process said in New Delhi.
The Hyderabad girl beat compatriot Ankita Bhambri in the girls' final. Fai-Wai Liu of Chinese Taipei won the boys' title.
The petroleum ministry is likely to advocate allowing its public sector units like ONGC to bid for acquiring management control in oil refiner HPCL, which the government on Monday said would be put on the block.\n\n
Gail Katz, the producer of the 1997 Harrison Ford thriller Air Force One says Donald Trump is using legendary composer Jerry Goldsmith's music without permission.
The 30-share barometer started higher, but lost its way soon after the railway budget.
Public sector giants ONGC, BHEL and GAIL are among the companies short-listed for bidding for majority 51 per cent control of Engineers India Limited, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.
Scottish explorer Cairn Energy Plc rejected state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp's $200 million bid to acquire its oil and gas properties on east and west coasts of India.
India's leading juniors posted contrasting semi-final victories in the Asian junior tennis championships.
The top seed overcame a poor first set to make it to the last eight in the ITF Masters.
The Israeli recovered after losing the first set to beat Ajay Ramaswami in the first round in the ITF Masters tournament.
As the Sensex continued with its record-breaking show, over 750 stocks hit one-year high levels on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday.
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By the end of 2020, India will lay 32,737 km across the length and breadth of the country. It needs to lay down and comply with strict safety standards especially since some of these pipes will go through areas of dense habitation, says Rashme Sehgal.
Stocks reeled under huge losses on Thursday as the benchmark Sensex plunged sharply by over 465 points, the biggest single-day fall in three months, after India carried out "surgical strikes" on Wednesday night on terror launch pads across the Line of Control.
NTPC, Sun Pharma Coal India and Asian Paints were among top losers on BSE Sensex
The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market was strong
Hopes that better-than-forecasted monsoon may help the RBI cut rates sooner than expected, too triggered buying activity.
Sensex ended in green on Friday amid heavy buying.
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Companies to hold rates in Delhi until new government is formed.
While consumer electronics, technology, mobile phones, auto and sports-wear categories dominate the top 20, FMCG has only one entry in the list
A total of 180 NSE-listed companies have not appointed a woman director.
Quite a few large- and mid-cap stocks are yet to recover from the note ban, pharma, banking and rural demand-based industries among laggards.
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