India Stock Market News Updates Today: Earlier today, Sensex rose above the psychological key level of 50,000 and Nifty neared 14,700

Several studies throw up structural, logistical and financial challenges to the growth of crop insurance in India, jeopardised by apparent profiteering by insurance companies

Following the news, shares of IndusInd Bank opened at Rs 913 and later climbed 2.54% to an intraday high of Rs 948 as against the last closing of Rs 924.50

Shares of Powergrid trade higher than 5, 20, 50, 100 and 200-day moving averages

With three times more sellers than buyers, YES Bank stock opened lower at Rs 17.71 and fell 2.9% to hit the day's low of Rs 18.30 during the session

Dwarikesh Sugar rose 4.04 per cent, Simbhaoli Sugars was up 5 per cent, Balrampur Chini Mills gained 4.43 per cent, Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar rose 5.18 per cent and Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries gained 4.14% per cent in early trade

India Stock Market Highlights Today: In today's session, Sensex hit an all-time high of 46,992 and Nifty logged a lifetime high of 13,773

Stocks to watch today on December 17: Wipro, IRCTC, Aster DM, Hero MotoCorp, IndusInd Bank, Future Enterprises, Jubilant FoodWorks among others are the top stocks to watch out for in Thursday's trading session

The CCEC observed that sugarcane farmers sell their produce to sugar mills but they do not get their dues from the mill owners as they have surplus sugar stock

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Bajaj Auto, M&M, L&T, HDFC, Bharti Airtel, Sun Pharma, UltraTech Cement, Titan and Tata Steel were among the top gainers on Sensex pack. On the other hand, IndusInd Bank, Infosys, Maruti and ONGC were among the laggards

FM Nirmala Sitharaman Press Conference Live: FM Sitharaman's announced several stimulus measures to revive the ecomony on Thursday, November 12. Among several of them, she announced new subsidies for employers and employees under the Atmanirbhar Bharat Rozgar Yojana Subsidy

India Stock Market Highlights Today: SBI, followed by HCL Tech, Tech Mahindra, Asian Paints, Infosys, Tata Steel, TCS and Reliance Industries were among the top gainers in the Sensex pack. On the other hand, ONGC and Titan were the laggards.

The minister also mentioned that domestic sugar prices are ruling stable at Rs 40 per kg, a level that covers the cost of production for sugar mills

Some mills faced difficulty in exporting during the current COVID-19 pandemic as they could not move their stock due to movement restrictions in some places

As a result of price intervention, on the one hand granaries overflow creating storage problems and on the other edible oil worth about Rs 90,000 crore is being imported

Economic Survey 2020: Calling India a shackled economy, the Economic Survey pointed out that excessive intervention stifles economic freedom and leads to wasted chances of creating consumer and producer surplus

Economic Survey 2020 latest: Imported onions are rotting as there are no takers. Here's what the Economic Survey 2019-20 has to say about the onion crisis

Brazil, a major sugarcane producer, has been against India's existing scheme to support sugarcane farmers claiming that it was beyond the permissible limits under the WTO regulations

The jute industry is predominantly dependent on the government sector, which purchases jute bags worth more than Rs 7,500 crore every year for packing foodgrains

The five-year-old scheme, a pet project of the prime minister Narendra Modi, has seen a gradual increase in the average deposit per account from Rs 1,000 in March 2015 to Rs 2,853 in October 2019