The world's largest online retailer is reportedly interested in Kumar Mangalam Birla's food and grocery supermarket chain More.

The stock which closed at 1240.30 level on Friday rose up to 6.01% intra day  to 1319.65 level in trade today.  The stock was the top gainer on Sensex and Nifty and opened with a gain of 4.81%.

The stock fell 58 points or over 4 percent to touch an intra day low of 1,373.55 level on the BSE. The stock has gained 51.87% during the last one year and 34.89% since the beginning of this year.  At 10:53 am, the stock was trading 2.54% or 36 points lower at 1395 level on BSE. The stock was the top loser on Sensex, Nifty.

One of the better-known economic legacies of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was his push for privatization of the central public sector enterprises (CPSE).

The rupee set a new all-time low record today, staying above the psychologically-important 70 mark against the US dollar. Here are the factors weighing down the rupee.

Arun Jaitley was referring to the RBI's foreign exchange reserves which stood at $402.70 billion in the week ended August 3 which provides a comfortable cushion.

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is examining as to whether banks have followed prudential norms in respect of these stressed assets, a senior public sector bank official said.

Given the record low of 70.08 per dollar that the rupee slipped to today, it's hard to imagine a time when it could hold its own against the US dollar.

The first Gulf War (1990), which sent crude oil prices surging again, the downgrade by global credit rating agencies and the disintegration of the Soviet Union all brought on a massive balance of payment crisis in India.

Last week, Future Retail posted a 3.56 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 153.12 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. According to a regulatory filing by Future Retail, total income during the April-June quarter stood at Rs 4,541.94 crore.

On Friday too, the rupee had lost 15 paise to end at 68.83 against the resurgent dollar. A weak trend in Asia coupled with sell-offs on Wall Street last week and a slump in the Turkish lira dampened the sentiment globally, brokers said.

Out of the two accounts on sale, Bombay Rayon Fashions Ltd owesRs 2,260.79 crore to the bank. The second account, Shivam Dhatu Udyog Pvt Ltd, has to repay Rs 229.32 crore.

The Delhi High Court has also asked the former promoters of Fortis Healthcare Limited, popularly known as the Singh brothers, to disclose all their transactions, including gifts, since 2016.

Without the knowledge of the Ministry of Defence, the Central Board of Excise and Customs had published details, including unit prices, of all defence products like bolts, missiles, and nuclear reactor parts India imported between 2004 and 2016, on its website.

Gome Electronics, a fully-owned subsidiary of Gome Telecom Equipment, is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Apart from smartphones, the $11-billion Chinese company plans to foray into consumer product categories like televisions and home appliances in India.

The Walmart-Flipkart deal is expected to help the government rake in up to Rs 13,700 crore.

Needless to say the rapid changes at the top of Air India does not give any chairman enough time to make any substantive changes to the carrier.

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Bansal's decision to sell his entire stake to Walmart was reportedly the result of differences with the investors.

In this round of investment, some early employees of Ola, including Rehan Yar Khan and VC investors like Accel India, Bessemer Venture Partners, Texiforsure founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Raghunandan G, etc, will sell some of their shares in Ola.