New Zealand picked two uncapped players in all-rounder Daryl Mitchell and pacer Blair Tickner for the three-match T20 International series against India.
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Australia goes into the ICC women's T20 World Cup summit clash as favourites, but with India having stunned them on the opening night in Sydney, we could be in for the most electric final yet.
The fiercest corporate battles in India probably have been fought by the Ambanis. Dhirubhai Ambani, the founder of Reliance Industries, first locked horns with Bombay Dyeing's Nusli Wadia over polyester. Then, there was a corporate battle with Larsen & Toubro.
The 30-share Sensex ended up 11 points at 20,894 and the 50-share Nifty closed 16 points higher at 6,205.
Market participants are wary of wild swings expected in stocks on May 16 - the poll results day, and therefore refraining from taking leveraged bets now, say analysts
The ministry of defence has set a goal of $26 billion, including export of $7 billion for the industry by 2025-26 through its Defence Production Policy 2018.
Construction major Larsen & Toubro invested $160.80 million in its wholly owned unit in the United Arab Emirates for business in financial services.
Denmark beat Indonesia 3-2 in the final Sunday, making the Scandinavian country the first European team to win the competition.
Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects.
The broader NSE Nifty, on the other hand, ended 2.70 points, or 0.02 per cent, lower at 11,555.90 in its third straight day of losses.
Given the military's requirement for watertight cyber and communications security, L&T will establish a Security Operations Centre which will deal with security threats.
Infosys, TCS and HCL Technologies ended 1-2% higher due to weakness in rupee.
Thirty minutes of high-intensity exercise performed in the early evening does not negatively affect subsequent sleep, and may also reduce feelings of hunger.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
While most other big companies like Tata, Mahindra and Reliance remain non-committal on FDI, Nikhil Gandhi was the lone voice supporting 51 per cent FDI through the automatic route.
Chatterjee said the compNY is not aware of any major client concerns at this point.
Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro is planning to foray into arms and ammunition to widen its defence equipment portfolio
L&T, Ircon International and Tata Projects have showed interest in a tender issued by the National High Speed Rail Corporation, implementing agency for the project. The tender is for construction of stations, bridges, viaducts, maintenance depots and tunnels.
Four L&T executives, 2 from RIL and 1 from Tech Mahindra own over Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) each in stock options.
Larsen & Toubro, country's biggest engineering and construction major, said its net profit dropped 12 per cent.
Rescuers have been engaged in digging another borewell since Sunday to reach an appropriate depth to get to the boy and now a heavy drilling machine of German make has been deployed to expedite the efforts.
L&T is pursuing a controlling stake of 66 per cent in the mid-tier IT firm, for Rs 10,700 crore.
Investors are likely to remain cautious tomorrow on account of March series F&O expiry.
Further stimulus measures are expected in the upcoming Budget where the focus is likely to be on reforms, including some structural measures such as reducing red tape and boosting foreign direct investment. The meeting with industrialists is in the series of discussions that Modi has had during the last couple of weeks to seek suggestions to revive growth.
To sell off L&T IDPL, Nabha Power; transfer Hyderabad Metro to an InvIT.
MEIL has become one of the fastest growing and most successful infrastructure and engineering, procurement, and construction companies in the country in recent times.
Larsen and Toubro (L&T), ICICI Bank and Reliance Industries (RIL) were the top-three stocks that accounted for over 60 per cent of the 991-point gain in the Sensex between October 15 (Sensex at 19,057) and October 29 (Sensex at 19,978). Larsen and Toubro, which was the top gainer among the Sensex stocks, was also the largest contributor, adding 336.09 points to the Sensex's total gains.
Listening -- really listening -- to advisers in the government and outside would help. India has plenty of wise economists who have worked within the bureaucracy during previous crises, points out Rahul Jacob.
Most of these road contracts are spread across Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Odisha, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal, with the government struggling to restart them.
The survey noted that in a market like India, where there is high attrition levels, employer branding is very important as it provides an advantage to attract and retain top talent.
A symbol of self-reliance, India's space endeavours are a model for public-private partnership.
Markets ended flat amid a volatile trading session on Monday led by engineering major Larsen & Toubro.
New Zealand will be without Martin Guptill for the one-off Twenty20 international against South Africa and the start of the one-day series as he recovers from another hamstring strain.
Dortmund now have 14 points, one ahead of champions Bayern Munich, who suffered their first defeat of the season on Friday with a 2-0 loss at Hertha Berlin.
Three stockmarket experts give their best picks for the New Year.
Experts say while the increasing demand for a ban on Chinese goods might make for good optics, the reality is that India is still heavily dependent on that country in a wide range of industries like electronics, mobile devices, auto, pharma, telecom equipment, and fertilisers.
Guptill will undergo a fitness Test on Sunday after which a final decision will be taken on whether he can partner Henry Nicholls at the top of New Zealand's order.
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