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Stock market today: Despite strong global market sentiments, the Indian stock market ended lower on Friday. The Nifty 50 index ended 172 points lower after reaching a new peak of 22,794, and the BSE Sensex dropped 732 points from its lifetime high of 75,124.

Buy or sell stocks for today: Despite strong global market sentiments, the Indian stock market ended lower on Friday. The Nifty 50 index ended 172 points lower after reaching a new peak of 22,794, and the BSE Sensex dropped 732 points from its lifetime high of 75,124.

Ashok Leyland, the Hinduja Group flagship, will roll out six new light commercial vehicles (2-3.5 tonne) in the next 12 months as part of a plan to increase its LCV market share to 25% from 20% now, a top official said. «This year, we have six versions of the Dost lined up. We will launch one model every alternate month starting this month-end,» Amandeep Singh, president, LCV, international operations, defence and power solutions at Ashok Leyland, told ET. «This will come with varied payload, technology, and volume capacity.» Dost is a range of pick-up trucks.

detained several locals for questioning. The armed forces continued cordon and search operation in the forest area and pressed in helicopters for aerial surveillance. IAF has clarified that five soldiers were injured in the attack and one of them, Corporal Vikky Pahade, succumbed to his injuries. Additional Director General of J&K Police, Anand Jain, and senior officers of the Army and Intelligence agencies visited the ambush spot in Surankote area. The officials informed that a group of at least three attackers had targeted the Air Force detachment convoy in Shahsitar area before they vanished into the thick forests nearby.

reservations and sexual harassment charges against JD(S) leader Prajwal Revanna concluded on Sunday evening in 92 seats spread over 11 states and Union Territories. The stakes are significant for the BJP in this round as the party had in 2019 won an overwhelming majority of these seats, including all in Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, that will go to polls on May 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP charge, asking the Congress to give in writing that it will not hand over the quota for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes to Muslims. The Congress and its allies accused the BJP of trying to tamper with the Constitution and do away with reservations. The principal opposition party, which has promised to remove the 50 per cent cap on reservations, also asked the BJP to clear its stance on the issue.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, and Digvijaya Singh, ended on Sunday evening. More than 1.77 crore voters will decide the fate of 127 candidates in the fray amid intense campaigning by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah from the BJP, and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra from Congress. The constituencies which will vote on Tuesday include Morena, Bhind (SC-reserved), Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh and Betul (ST-reserved) constituencies.

A U.K. High Court judge has ruled that the government acted unlawfully when it approved a plan to meet climate targets without evidence it could be delivered

The nation’s employers pulled back on their hiring in April but still added a decent 175,000 jobs in a sign that persistently high interest rates may be starting to slow the robust U.S. job market

smallcaps with marginal increase in risk profile. For example, as on March 31st, 2024, this index has given 27.1% returns in last 3 years compared to 26.6% by Nifty Midcap 150 index and 28.4% by Smallcap 250 index, but with volatility/risk of 16.3% v/s 16.0% of midcap and 17.7% of small-cap index.

Indian stock market: The Nifty index is showing signs of near-term bearishness as it forms a double top pattern on the daily chart, coupled with a bearish engulfing candle. This suggests a sell-on-rise approach in the market. Confirmation of the double top pattern would require follow-up selling in the upcoming week.

Karan Singh getting ticket from the BJP from Kaiserganj, Sitharaman said the allegations have not been proved against Brij Bhushan. "Nothing is proven against Brij Bhushan. Nothing has been proven about it.

₹1.03 trillion till November 2023, resulting in production/sales of ₹8.61 trillion and employment generation of over 678,000. Third, several measures have been taken to improve the ease of doing business. These include liberalized foreign investment rules and the launch of a unified tax system, GST.

Sectorally, buying was seen in metals, healthcare, and public sector while selling was seen in realty, capital goods and telecom indices which were down more than 1% each.

Stock Market News: The domestic benchmark indices, the Sensex and Nifty 50 plunged dramatically down on Friday, May 3, as profit taking across sectors prevented them from holding the gains seen in early trade. On Friday, the 30-share BSE Sensex closed at 73,878.15 level, down 732.96 points, or 0.98%.

Sandeshkhali case: BJP leader writes to CBI, calls 'sting' video AI-generated In the video, the man alleged, "We have followed Suvendu Da's (Bengal Leader of Opposition) instructions. We convinced the Trinamool people to do all this. Adhiakr told us that if we could not do this, we would not be able to stand here".

₹3,706 crores, marking a 21 per cent increase year-over-year (YoY), for the quarter ending March 31, 2024, on May 4. However, the Profit After Tax (PAT) experienced a slight downturn by 10 per cent YoY, settling at ₹619 crores, attributed to a 14% increase in Net Interest Income (NII) which stood at ₹1,971 crores. The Net Interest Margin (NIM) remained fairly stable at 7.1%.

Bank of England may offer a clearer signal in the coming week on whether it plans to cut interest rates this summer, just as investors bet on a delayed outlook for easing. Ahead of Thursday’s decision, Governor Andrew Bailey has distanced Britain from resurgent consumer price pressures in the US, pointing to “strong evidence” of UK inflation receding.

Biden and Donald Trump are two presidents with unfinished business and an itch to get it done. Their track records and plans on abortion, immigration, taxes, wars abroad — you name it — leave no doubt that the man voters choose in November will seek to shape the landscape of American life in ways wholly distinct from the other.

arrests of three suspected hitmen accused of killing a B.C. Sikh leader highlight an emerging security problem: foreign intelligence services are contracting their dirty work to the criminal underworld.Governments are increasingly accused of trying to silence and kill opponents outside their borders, and they are relying more and more on crime groups to do so, officials and experts told Global News.“Some states leverage criminal organizations to advance their objectives,” said Eric Balsam, a Canadian Security Intelligence Service spokesperson.“The use of criminal elements can permit plausible deniability and generate resources to advance threat activities.”Iran’s intelligence service was recently accused of hiring Canadian Hell’s Angels to kill dissidents in the United States.

Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats/ And bit the babies in their cradles/ And ate the cheese out of the vats/ And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles.' Had he been around today, Robert Browning might have penned those lines to describe not medieval Hamelin, but present-day New York City. NYC has been plagued by an infestation of rodents, which has left it, known for a different kind of rat race, in dire straits. While it is no stranger to rats, there's been a Malthusian population explosion of the varmints who lurk in abandoned tenements and vacant lots. To confound the pestiferous problem, civic authorities must contend with animal rights advocacy, which disapproves of the eradication methods, involving employment of specially trained hunting dogs, painful glue traps, or the use of poisons, which lead to a lingering demise.

Sandeshkhali women, who weren't sexually assaulted, were projected as 'rape' victims on the instructions of Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari. The purported video was broadcast by a local television channel. Mint couldn't independently verify the video.