Stocks to watch today on February 26: RailTel, Bharti Airtel, Infosys, HCL Tech, SBI, Ashok Leyland, DHFL among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Friday's trading session

Stock Market News Updates Today: Sectorally, all the other indices were trading with major losses. PSU Bank, private and financial indices declined around 4-5% today

Total domestic sales of the company rose 14% to 12,359 units in January against 10,850 units in the year-ago period

India Stock Market News Updates Today: Earlier today, Sensex rose above the psychological key level of 50,000 and Nifty neared 14,700

On Friday, Hinduja Global Solutions share price rallied as much as 16.9 per cent to touch 52-week high of Rs 1147.70 after opening higher at Rs 990.60 against the previous closing price of Rs 981.70

Former Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan and deputy governor Viral Acharya have said that the proposals put out by an internal working group (IWG) of the central bank to allow corporate entry into banking is a \"bad idea.\"; Software giant Microsoft has rolled out a new feature on its Teams app through which up to 300 participants will be able to do free voice or video calls all day; Biotechnology major Biocon on Monday said it has inked an agreement for the acquisition of 26% stake on a fully diluted basis in Hinduja Renewables Two Pvt Ltd for Rs 5.91 crore. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: 'India, top priority': Serum Institute CEO Adar Poonawalla on COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan

SpiceJet founders venture into COVID-19 testing SpiceHealth, a healthcare company founded by the promoters of low-cost carrier SpiceJet, announced on November 23 that it would conduct Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, touted as the most decisive and crucial test for COVID-19, starting at Rs 499. The company also claimed that the test report will be generated in a record time of 6 hours after sample collection, in stark contrast to the current 24 to 48 hours it takes at mos...

India Stock Market Highlights Today: During the session, Sensex hit a lifetime high of 44,601 and Nifty touched record high of 13,079

According to bulk deal data available on the BSE, AU Small Finance Bank offloaded a total of 35,00,000 shares at an average price of Rs 1,515.16 per share. This values the deal at Rs 530.30 crore

Banking and non-banking shares rose up to 20% in the early morning trade on BSE after RBI's IWG recommended guarded entry of corporate into banking space, and a proposal to once again allow promoters of banks to hold up to 26% stake or non-promoter investors to take up to 15% stake

India Stock Market Highlights Today: IndusInd Bank, followed by Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Reliance Industries, ONGC, NTPC and Tata Steelwere among the top gainerz in the Sensex pack. On the other hand, HDFC, Asian Paints, ITC and Bharti Airtel were among the laggards

Riding high on merger report, shares of IndusInd Bank gained as much as 4.2 per cent to hit an intraday high of Rs 633 after opening higher at Rs 615.25 against previous closing price of Rs 607.45

IndusInd Bank promoters called reports of takeover talks with Kotak Mahindra Bank \"malicious, untrue and baseless\", adding that they will continue their unstinted support to the bank

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Infosys, HCL Tech, Nestle India, M&M, Reliance Industries and Tech Mahindra were among the laggards today, while IndusInd Bank, followed by UltraTech Cement, Tata Steel, Sun Pharma, L&T and ICICI Bank were among gainers.

YES Bank FPO: The portion reserved for institutional investors was subscribed 66 per cent, while the non Institutional quote was subscribed 4 per cent

The financial services sector is witnessing the adoption of new technologies and business model changes, albeit in different and innovative ways

With China+Hong Kong being India's biggest trading partner, it hurts them the most. Particularly, when the duo together enjoys a $54.6 billion trade surplus against India

Hinduja family seems headed for a split. Why a family constitution may have helped

Ashok Leyland share price gained 3.64% to Rs 55.50 against previous close of  Rs 53.55 on BSE

Share Market Live: Top Sensex gainers were Infosys, TCS, IndusInd Bank rising up to 7%. Gains were led by IT stocks with BSE IT index rising 728 points to 15,125