The NSE's India VIX, a gauge of the market's expectation of volatility over the near term, fell 8.9% to 25.62

Share market gainers today: 5 stocks that rose the most on March 1: PowerGrid, ONGC, Kotak Bank, Asian Paints and UltraTech Cement traded as the top gainers on BSE and NSE

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns had led to a surge in gold prices globally. Most commodity experts see a further downside in the gold prices amid decrease in infections, opening up of economies, and increase in vaccination pace

Sensex closed 750 points or 1.53% higher at 49,849 today after investors cheered Q3 GDP data and resorted to value buying. Nifty ended 232 points or 1.60% higher at 14,761

According to a senior police officer, a total of 66,246 police personnel have got the first dose of coronavirus vaccine till 7 pm on Friday

Although the Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by IHS Markit, eased slightly in February, it was well above the 50-level separating growth from contraction

While Sensex gained 900 points to 50,000 mark, Nifty rose 266 points to 14,795 in early trade

Stock Market Updates Today: Sectorally, all the indices were rising, with 1.8% rise in media, financial services, PSU Bank and private banking indices.

BJP leader and Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy said that India's Q3 GDP growth would have been -10 per cent using Laspeyres Price Index Number and -15 per cent using Paasche Index, provided guesstimate of negative growth in MSMEs and informal sector were added to GDP

Delhi had recorded 199 fresh COVID-19 cases on January 28. From January 15-26, the daily figures ranged from 148 on January 25 to 299 on January 16, according to official data

China has given conditional approval for a single dose COVID-19 vaccine, touted to be a rival to Johnson & Johnson's one-jab shot cleared by the US drug regulator

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) was among top losers, followed by HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Infosys, HDFC, HUL, Bajaj Finance, Kotak Mahindra Bank, among others

\"If a mutation or variant of the virus comes in, by the time we open our summer schedule by April we will have our full pre-COVID-19 level of domestic traffic or even higher,\" says Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri

IndiGo, in the release, also said that it has taken measures to ensure passengers are informed of this change at every stage of their journey with the airline

Maharashtra government had imposed a total lockdown of seven days in Amravati city and Achalpur town on February 21 owing to a large number of COVID-19 cases being reported from the two zones

More than 1 million Rohingya refugees from predominantly Buddhist Myanmar are living in teeming camps in Muslim-majority Bangladesh

SBI Mutual Fund, whose current value is around $7 billion, could raise about $1 billion from the public offering

The new rules, announced earlier this week, require 'significant social media intermediaries' to follow additional due diligence

In a move aimed at enhancing the safety of drivers and passengers, Uber has partnered with Amazon Pay for installing plastic screens in 40,000 Uber Autos across seven cities in India; National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) on Friday said its daily toll collection through FASTag has reached about Rs 104 crore; Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday stressed on increasing credit flow to businesses to meet the needs of a fast reflating economy. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Indian employees work longest, paid least globally with no leisure hours, claims ILO report

Prohibitions on CNOOC will take effect on March 9, 60 days after the company was added to the list that prohibits US investments