The Reserve Bank has initiated steps to set up a wide-based digital Public Credit Registry (PCR) to capture details of all borrowers, including wilful defaulters and also the pending legal suits in order to check financial delinquencies.

Five out of six debutants in the top 100 rankings are from the financial services sector.

The UIDAI wrote to banks after it received legal opinion on the matter, in the wake of a recent Supreme Court verdict that restricted the use of Aadhaar by private entities but cleared it for welfare schemes.

The top four information technology companies in the country managed to enhance their workforce more than three times by the end of first half of 2018-19 than they did in the entire last fiscal.

The veteran banker had earlier served as the Deputy General Manager at State Bank of India where he worked for over three decades.

The stock has risen after four days of consecutive fall and opened with a gain of 3.75% at 2,162.05 level. The large cap stock touched an intra day high of Rs 2,350 or 12.81% higher from its previous close of 2,083 on the BSE. Its market capitalisation rose to Rs 1.33 lakh crore.