Stock Market News Highlights: HCL Tech, followed by HDFC twins, Infosys, Sun Pharma, ICICI Bank and Kotak Bank were among the top losers on Sensex today, while Asian Paints, UltraTech Cement, Bajaj Finserv, IndusInd Bank and TCS were among the gainers.

A giant feast took place in the heart of Mumbai amid a national lockdown. One of India's top ice-cream makers had given away 26 tonnes of their best product for free. But, those consuming the ice-cream weren't sugar-craving humans

The May 5 VAT hike translated into steepest ever price increase of Rs 7.10 per litre in diesel. Until July 29, diesel rates in the national capital surged to Rs 81.94 per litre. After the rollback of the  VAT hike, diesel rates in Delhi reduced to Rs 73.56 per litre

The cooking gas prices were increased marginally in June and July after three successive months of reductions. In the month of July, the price of an LPG cylinder was hiked by Rs 1 in Delhi and Rs 3.5 in Mumbai

Traders said weak US GDP numbers casted a shadow on market recovery. Sensex ended 129 points lower at 37,606 and Nifty fell 28 points to 11,073. Overall Sensex and Nifty have fallen 1.37% and 1.08% this week, respectively

The profit of the country's largest oil firm declined as coronavirus-induced lockdown negatively hit fuel demand and shrank refining margins

The NSE had added 20 lakh active clients across all brokerages in FY20. By comparison, in just three months in FY21, it has already added 14 lakh active clients

India Stock Market Highlights Today: HDFC, followed by Kotak Bank, HDFC Bank, Reliance Industries, Tata Steel and Nestle India were among the top losers today, while HCL Tech, TCS, SBI, Infosys, Sun Pharma and Tech Mahindra were among the gainers.

Stocks to watch today on July 31: RIL, Torrent Pharma, HDFC, Tata Motors, State Bank of India among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Friday's trading session.

India Stock Market News Updates Today: While Sensex fell 335 points to 37,736, Nifty lost 100 points lower at 11,102

BPCL share price has gained 90.79 per cent as compared to its 52-week low of Rs 252 touched on March 24, 2020

The DoT has requested to all other ministries and departments to migrate their websites and web-portals to the gov.in domain by August 31

Nearly 800 workers from nearby areas will be engaged for carrying out the maintenance activity at the refinery plant, while adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols, Jagatsinghpur District Collector Sangram Keshari Mohapatra said

\"In all these very grim scenarios, there are some silver linings and we have to see how we leverage them as we near total recovery of the economy,\" he said

In Delhi, the price of petrol remained unchanged at Rs 80.43 per litre and diesel was untouched at Rs 80.78 per litre, according to notifications from Indian Oil Corporation

PNB reports over Rs 3600 crore loans to DHFL as fraudPunjab National Bank said on Thursday it had reported loans made to Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd worth 36.89 billion rupees ($491 million) to India's central bank as \"fraud.\" Indian state-owned lender PNB, which was hit by a $2 billion fraud involving billionaire Nirav Modi in 2018, had already set aside 12.5 billion rupees in provisions for the loans to DHFL, which is in bankruptcy proceedings.Uttar Pradesh govt imposes corona...

PM Modi had in February this year envisaged raising around Rs 2.1 lakh crore by selling state assets in an attempt to contain the budget deficit at 3.5 per cent of the GDP

In Delhi, the price of petrol remained unchanged at Rs 80.43 per litre and diesel was untouched at Rs 80.78 per litre

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Other metro cities also saw marginal rise prices; in Mumbai ,petrol costs 2 paise more at Rs 87.19 and diesel Rs 10 paise more at 79.05 per litre