In the afternoon session, Sensex and Nifty turned bearish amid high volatility in the domestic market as investors turned cautious ahead of key macro-economic data like CPI and IIP, scheduled to be released tomorrow

India Stock Market Highlights Today: M&M, followed by Bajaj Finance, Kotak Bank, SBI, ONGC, L&T, Tata Steel, Bajaj Finserv and Maruti were among the top gainers on Sensex pack. On the other hand, IndusInd Bank, HUL, PowerGrid, Titan and Nestle India were among the top losers today

Stocks to watch today on November 11: Wipro, NMDC, Pfizer, Infosys, YES Bank, ONGC among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Wednesday's trading session

Share price price of BF Utilities ended 10% higher at Rs 220 against previous close of Rs 200.90 on BSE

Astra Microwave share opened with a loss of 3.29% to an intraday low of Rs 113.3 on BSE. However, the stock price gained momentum and climbed 9.18% to a new 52-week high as well as intraday high of Rs 127.9 against the last closing of Rs 117.50

Even though the stock market traded muted, defence stocks bucked the overall trend and hit the intraday high of as much as 10 per cent from previous close in early trade

 Indian equity market extended losses for the seventh consecutive session on Thursday led by decline in Power, Pharma, Energy indices. Escalated trade tensions between China and the US also prompted investors to remain cautious throughout the trading session.

Conversations with those within the private aerospace and defence sector in India suggest that it is still early. While some joint ventures have been formed and work has started, manufacturing, especially on a large-scale, is some distance away.

The barometer opened higher, but quickly slipped into the red zone after profit-booking in recent gainers kicked in. A decisively weak trend overseas after the explosions at the Brussels airport and a local metro station dragged the broader index further down.

B. Malla Reddy, Managing Director of Hyderabaded-based Astra Microwave Products, explains the growth drivers for his company, and plans for the future.

The third edition of Business Today's Emerging Companies survey has found a dazzling array of companies rocketing up the growth curve, in sectors as diverse as hybrid seeds to feed for shrimps.

Until 10 years ago - its revenue then was around Rs 65 crore against Rs 634.34 crore in 2014/15 - a sizeable portion of its business came from the telecom sector, both government and private makers of wireless communication equipment.

Stocks of Bharat Electronics surged 7.62 per cent while Astra Microwave Products rose by 7 per cent. Shares of BEML gained 4.99 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Moving ahead with the economic reforms, the Cabinet on Wednesday night cleared the long-delayed proposal for raising FDI limit in defence to 49 per cent.

Bucking the overall weak trend, shares of companies related to railways saw buying interest after the government on Wednesday approved FDI liberalisation in the sector.

A few wholly-owned subsidiaries of Larsen & Toubro have been quietly mopping up chunky stakes in businesses that are related to those of the group.

Even before Chandrayaan's launch, while India and the world were worrying over the global financial meltdown, ISRO subsidiary Antrix had crossed a milestone unnoticed and unheralded. It delivered a communications satellite, the W2M, to the Paris-based Eutelstat, a leading telecom operator. Can India beat its cryogenic blues to get into big launches? K.R. Balasubramanyam and N. Madhavan probe the answer.