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.

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The forecasted growth in Q3 FY2021, while undoubtedly mild and uneven, is nevertheless welcome, as it signifies that the economy has exited the COVID-19 pandemic-induced recession, ICRA said

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

Amongst sectors, consumer products, and high-tech companies are pegged to offer higher increments, however, energy and business process outsourcing sectors are projected to give the least hike

Replying to a Zero Hour mention, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said a lot of suggestions and complaints on the regulation of OTTs have been received

Indian airlines are currently carrying 60 per cent of the total pre-COVID domestic passengers and this is better than most countries in the world, Remi Maillard, President and Managing Director, Airbus India and South Asia said in an interview

Nirmala Sitharaman is likely to increase spending by more than 15% year-on-year in 2021-22 with an emphasis on infrastructure and healthcare, say senior officials and advisers involved in budget preparation

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says preparation of this Budget was taken under circumstances like never before

In the previous budget, the defence sector had received a marginal increase of 1.82 per cent in fund allocation.  Last year, the government allocated Rs 4,71,378 crore to the defence sector

The industry experts expect the upcoming budget to further relax income tax norms, tax rebate on housing, extension of interest subvention, GST waiver, infrastructure status for the realty and easing liquidity for the sector

In the backdrop of slowing economy, there is high hope from the government to remove FDI caps in different sectors to attract substantial foreign investment

According to ICRA, the Indian aviation industry is expecting financial support and reduction in levies and taxes in short term to revitalise operations and boost passenger traffic, which include among others, lowering taxes on aviation turbine fuel (ATF)

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A memorandum of cooperation on movement of specified skilled workers to Japan for a maximum period of up to five years has been signed by India and Japan on January 18

Twenty-year-old pilot Samy Kramer flew his Diamond DA20 Katana light aircraft for 200km in a route laid out in the likeness of a syringe to celebrate the beginning of vaccination drive in Europe

Boeing's Chief Financial Officer also told a conference that there is no 'normal profile' currently for jet pre-delivery payments or PDPs, which are tied to production rates

Pfizer pledges commitment to engage with Indian government for vaccine provision; Aviation industry to lose Rs 21,000 crore in FY21; Only Saffola, MarkfedSohna, Nature's Nectar among 13 brands pass sugar syrup test, claims CSE. Watch this and more news on News Blast.

Focus on higher spending, stronger growth in next Budget: FM Sitharaman India's economy will return to growth in 2021/22 and higher spending in the budget due in February will lay the foundations for even stronger growth in the next four to five years, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Reuters on Thursday. With the world's second highest cases of coronavirus despite a severe lockdown of its 1.3 billion people early on in the pandemic, India's economy is expected to contract nearly 10...