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Stock market today: Following strong global market sentiments after the US Fed meeting, the Indian stock market shifted into a decent follow-through upside move on Thursday and ended higher on second day in a row. The Nifty 50 index gained 172 points and closed at the 22,011 level, the BSE Sensex shot up 539 points and ended at the 72,641 mark while the Bank Nifty index finished 374 points higher at the 46,684 level.

On Thursday, India’s Supreme Court stayed the government’s notification on setting up a fact-checking unit under the Press Information Bureau with the power to flag what it deems as false information related to the central government and its agencies on social media platforms. The Centre had justified the idea as a regulatory move, effected through amended IT rules for digital intermediaries, against the menace of fake news.

ANI. Rahul Gandhi will try to meet Arvind Kejriwal and his family on Friday, March 22, and provide legal help, sources informed ANI. The Delhi CM had filed a plea before the Delhi High Court on March 21 after being served nine summons to appear before the ED for a probe in the liquor policy case.

Read the full story here.)Sensex Today Live : The local equity market is anticipated to commence on a subdued note this Friday, taking cues from a mixed global market. Asian markets exhibited a mixed trend, with Japan's Nikkei reaching an unprecedented high.

‘New India does not tolerate pain of terrorism but teaches lesson,’ says PM Modi According to the Ministry of External Affairs, Indai-Bhutan shares an enduring partnership, rooted in "mutual trust, understanding, and goodwill". PM Modi's visit will provide an opportunity for both sides to exchange views on bilateral and regional matters of interest and deliberate on ways to expand and intensify partnership for the benefit of citizens, MEA said.

Food packaging usually has either a green or red marker to identify its contents as vegetarian or otherwise. This helps those who are sensitive about what they eat ensure they don’t end up consuming anything taboo by accident. So, a vegetarian person can instantly identify a box that may have non-veg food even without opening it.

Infosys, Wipro, Prestige Estates, Tata Chemicals, Tata Communications among others will be in focus due to various news developments. Infosys, Wipro The American Depository Receipts of Indian IT companies Infosys and Wipro declined sharply in trade on Thursday as peer Accenture Plc slashed its annual guidance.

trade settlement process to be launched on March 28 will be optional and limited to a few stocks. This 'beta version' is aimed at ensuring that the shorter settlement cycle functions smoothly before its full-fledged launch.

«Large caps are better placed in terms of valuation comfort and growth visibility. However, volatility in the broader market cannot be ruled out. Key event to watch – BOE interest rate decision,» said Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal.

MUMBAI : A duty differential in silver imported under an India-UAE treaty is being exploited by unscrupulous jewellers to short-change unsuspecting buyers, according to an official from nodal trade body India Bullion and Jewellers Association. The differential can also queer the pitch for silver exchange traded funds in India, he said.

Mint in the week gone by. The Election Commission of India has released a new set of data based on political declarations on electoral bonds. Infosys co-founder NR Narayana Murthy has gifted his four-month-old grandson Ekagrah Rohan Murthy shares of the company worth ₹240 crore.

IPL champions in 52 games. He will now lead the Super Kings that have won the IPL trophy 5 times -- 2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, and 2023 -- under Dhoni's leadership. ALSO READ: IPL 2024 schedule: Date, time, venue, teams; all you need to know CSK and RCB have played 31 matches so far with each other, where CSK won 20 and RCB won 10.

poll panel on Thursday issued a fresh set of transfer orders, moving out eight 'non-cadre' SPs/SSPs and five non-cadre district magistrates in Gujarat, Punjab, Odisha and West Bengal, besides the district police chiefs in Assam and Punjab. The latter are learnt to be the brothers of chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Congress MP Khadoor Sahib Jasbir Singh Gill, who have been posted at Assam's Sonitpur and Punjab's Bhatinda, respectively. They have been moved out in view of their «kinship or familial association with the elected political representatives». The poll panel said in a statement on Thursday that the officials in these two districts have been transferred as «pre-emptive measures to dispel any apprehensions of the administration being biased or perceived to be compromised». Among others moved out are SPs of Chhota Udaipur and Ahmedabad Rural districts in Gujarat, SSPs of Pathankot, Fazilka, Jalandhar Rural and Malerkotla districts in Punjab, DM of Dhenkanal and SPs of Deogarh and Cuttack Rural districts in Odisha and DM of Purba Medinipur, Jhargram, Purba Bardhaman and Birbhum districts.

an investigation released Wednesday by the Chicago-based Corporate Accountability Lab, a human rights legal group, that found workers face “dangerous and abusive conditions." AP journalists obtained access to shrimp hatcheries, growing ponds, peeling sheds and warehouses, and interviewed workers, supervisors and union organizers. India became America’s leading shrimp supplier, accounting for about 40% of the shrimp consumed in the U.S., in part because media reports including an AP investigation exposed modern day slavery in the Thai seafood industry. AP’s 2015 reporting led to the freedom of some 2,000 enslaved fishermen and prompted calls for bans of Thai shrimp, which had been dominating the market.

₹12 lakh. On developing scalable solutions, energy offers an interesting example. On the production side, India has set a target of half of all energy from renewable sources by 2030.

Arvind Kejriwal, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi Thursday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of adopting dictatorial tactics to suppress dissent and destroy democracy in the country. "A scared dictator wants to create a dead democracy," the Wayanad MP said in a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Known as Twitter) in Hindi, without naming anyone.

Income and wealth inequality in India are at a historical peak with the share of the richest 1% higher than in countries like China and Brazil, finds a new study by the World Inequality Lab. Left unattended, India could slide into a plutocracy, the authors warn. Mint takes a look.

Times of India (TOI), the techie had ordered a dosa from a nearby restaurant to her home in ACES Layout near Brookfield on March 17. When the delivery boy came, the person asked, out of courtesy, if he wanted some water. The delivery agent, who seemed to be in his 20s, said yes and he left after drinking it.

₹100 crore or more via electoral bonds showed. The BJP received ₹584 crore from Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Ltd, while Future Gaming and Hotel Services Pvt Ltd donated ₹542 crore to AITC and ₹503 crore to DMK. While the BJP is in power at the Centre, AITC and DMK lead governments in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively.

The way people navigate traffic can tell us a lot about their respective cultures. Recently, while walking to my office in midtown Manhattan, New York City, I stopped at a red light when an elderly woman with a walking stick caught my attention as she cautiously looked both left and right. When she saw that no car was close enough to hit her—assuming they adhered to New York’s speed-limit laws—she gave me a puzzled look and crossed the street.

Mint that Inox Wind, a group company focused on wind energy solutions, plans to set up a C&I vertical to primarily cater to the group’s captive power demand, which is around 500-600 MW. Noida-headquartered INOXGFL Group is present in chemicals manufacturing and renewable energy businesses through Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd (GFL); GFCL EV Products Ltd; GFCL Solar & Green Hydrogen Products Ltd; Inox Wind Ltd; Inox Green Energy Services Ltd; and Inox Wind Energy Ltd. Inox Green Energy Services Ltd is one of the major wind power operations and maintenance (O&M) service providers in the country, servicing a 3.2 giga watt (GW) portfolio.