Stock Market Updates Today: Sectorally, except for IT and pharma index, all the other indices ended with decent gains. Private, PSU Bank and financial indices closed 3% higher today.

Despite lacking any license or registration to sell insurance policy of any kind, Bangalore-based Digital National Motor Insurance has been selling insurance policies, IRDAI said

Cyber security is becoming big business. Here's why

The move is aimed at curbing the threat to Americans posed by Chinese software applications, which have large user bases and access to sensitive data

The dual listing, a first for Shanghai's Nasdaq-style STAR Market and Hong Kong, would value Ant at about $312 billion before a so-called greenshoe option for a 15% overallotment of shares

India Inc. must brace up for large-scale ratings downgrade, defaults and assets sale

Berkshire said it intends to hold the investments for the long term, and may boost its stakes to 9.9%. A Berkshire insurance business, National Indemnity Co, is holding the shares

That shadow banking was at the core of the financial sector meltdown that led to the Great Recession of 2007-08 is well documented and so is the fact that it remains big and powerful enough to cause serious financial crisis and yet, India and the US continue to promote it

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Axis Bank, followed by Tata Steel, ICICI Bank, HDFC, PowerGrid, Tech Mahindra and SBI were among the top gainers. On the other hand, Titan, Sun Pharma, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Industries were among the laggards

UV Asset Resolution Co Ltd (UVARCL) has offered bid of a little over Rs 16,000 crore and committed to pay 30 per cent of the sum upfront within 90 days

Merger plan, envisaged by late former finance minister Arun Jaitley, has been dropped for now and the Centre now wants to make these companies profitable

India Inc. is staring at severe operational and financial troubles. This is how it is planning to weather the storm

Transforming the citizen lifecycle digitally

Apollo Munich Health Insurance has been renamed as HDFC ERGO Health Insurance (HDFC ERGO Health) and will operate as a subsidiary of HDFC

HDFC and HDFC Ergo have received all requisite approvals for the acquisition including competition commission of India (CCI), Reserve Bank of India and the last being from Irdai on 1 January

IDBI Bank sold its stake in IDBI Asset Management (IAML) and IDBI MF Trustee Company (IMTL) to Muthoot Finance

LIC's entry into IDBI Bank, the biggest player among top m-cap gainers in banking, brings hope for investors.

PMC Bank crisis: The complaint names the bank's Chairman Waryam Singh and its Managing Director Joy Thomas, along with other bank officials, and accuses them of criminal breach of trust, forgery and falsification of records.

The new site in Maharashtra would be at Raigad district, about 100 kms (62 milies) south of the country's financial capital Mumbai