Stock Market News Updates Today: Sectorally, all the other indices were trading with decent gains. Metal index was up 2.5%, while private, PSU Bank and financial indices rose 1.5% to 2% today

Stock Market News Updates Today: Earlier today, Sensex hit a record high of 51,804 and Nifty hit a lifetime high of 15,243

Online grocery delivery company BigBasket has reported a 36 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase in its revenue at Rs 3,818 for the financial year ended March 31, 2020; HCL Technologies said it plans to hire 1,000 employees in the next few months for its campus at MIHAN (Multi-modal International Cargo Hub and Airport) in Nagpur; \"We encourage that any differences between the parties be resolved through dialogue,\" a U.S. embassy spokesperson said in a statement, which proffered general support to government measures to 'improve the efficiency of India's markets and attract greater private sector investment.' Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: Global shares reach record highs as COVID-19 vaccines bolster normalisation hopes

COVID-19 vaccination: Healthcare workers to receive second dose from Feb 13The second dose of anti-coronavirus vaccine will be administered to healthcare workers from February 13, the Centre said on Thursday, highlighting that 45 per cent of them have been inoculated so far. Addressing a press briefing, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said 45,93,427 beneficiaries have been vaccinated against COVID-19 till 1.30 PM on Thursday.Over 21% Indians already exposed to COVID-19, shows sero-sur...

Modi government has held multiple rounds of talks with farmers' representatives, but there has been no word on when talks would resume following the Republic Day violence

The generals made their move hours before parliament had been due to sit for the first time since the National League for Democracy's (NLD) landslide win in a Nov. 8 election viewed as a referendum on Suu Kyi's fledgling democratic rule

Sensex, Nifty Highlights on Budget day, February 1: Almost all the sectors closed in green territory today, rising in the range of 3-6%, except for pharma index

A recent executive order issued by President Donald Trump would prevent U.S. investors from buying securities of the listed firms starting late next year

The growing defense department list will likely add to tensions between the world's two largest economies, which have been at loggerheads over the coronavirus and China's crackdown on Hong Kong

India Stock Market Highlights: Reliance Industries, followed by HCL Tech, TCS, Asian Paints, Bajaj Auto, Infosys and HUL were among the top losers. On the other hand, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Bharti Airtel and SBI were among the gainers

French Interior Minister Gerald Damarnin said France - home to Europe's largest Muslim community and hit by a string of militant attacks in recent years - was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology and more attacks were likely

Pompeo on Tuesday visited Japan and called for deeper cooperation with Australia, India and Japan to counter China's growing regional influence

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials told Reuters last week that they had prepared the broader bans on cotton, cotton textiles and tomatoes, among China's biggest commodity exports, along with the orders announced on Monday

Earlier on Wednesday, dozens of Chinese students enrolled in U.S. universities said they received emailed notices from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing or U.S. consulates in China informing them their visas had been canceled

SMIC is the largest Chinese chip manufacturer but is second-tier to rival Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, the industry's market leader

The construction plans include completion of the challenging middle section of a high-elevation Sichuan-Tibet railway link, a railway line between Nepal and Tibet that has remained in the planning stages, and a newly planned dry port in the Tibet Autonomous Region

China has maintained ministerial contacts with the United States as well as governments of other countries that supported Australia's pandemic stance, including Japan, Germany and France

The channels generally posted \"spammy, non-political content,\" but a small subset touched on politics, the company said in a quarterly bulletin on disinformation operations

The explosion was the most powerful ever to rip through Beirut, a city still scarred by civil war three decades ago and reeling from an economic meltdown and a surge in coronavirus infections

The indictment states the Chinese hackers \"conducted reconnaissance\" against the computer network of a Massachusetts biotech firm known to be working on a coronavirus vaccine in January