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Aries Agro Ltd.(up 2.22%) and Sikko Industries Ltd.(up 1.04%) were among the top gainers.

No, it is not a bank holiday on July 20, 2024, as it is the third Saturday of the month, and this will be the last working Saturday ahead of July 31 Income Tax Return deadline. The next Saturday, July 27, banks will be closed as it is the fourth Saturday of the month. If you have not yet filed your income tax return, it's important to ensure that your banking tasks are completed this Saturday. In the event that your net banking or other online payment methods are not working, you can still pay your taxes in person or through RTGS / NEFT at your bank's physical location as these services should be operational on that day. Additionally, you may need to visit the bank to obtain documents such as interest certificates and Form 16A. <div data-placement=«Mid Article Thumbnails» data-t

HDFC Bank Ltd.(up 0.18 per cent) were among the top gainers.

Pidilite Industries Ltd. fell 0.1 per cent to Rs 3191.7 at 10:35AM hours (IST) on Friday. Earlier in the day, the stock saw a gap down start to the session. As per data available on BSE, total traded quantity on the counter stood at 21,294 shares with a turnover of Rs 6.85 crore till 10:35AM (IST). The stock traded at a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 93.92, while the price-to-book value ratio stood at 18.24.

Mumbai to chart out a strategy for the upcoming assembly polls in Maharashtra. The party has scheduled a meeting of all the senior leaders of the state, which will be chaired by the General Secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal, and the AICC Incharge of Maharashtra, Ramesh Chenithalla. In the recent parliamentary elections, Congress emerged as the largest party in the state, with 13 Lok Sabha MPs, and along with Shiv Sena UBT's 9 and the NCP (Pawar)'s 8 MPs, Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) won 30 seats out of the total number of 48 constituencies in Maharashtra.

Bank of India has raised ₹5,000 crore through the issuance of infrastructure bonds, with the state-owned lender receiving bids far in excess of the notified amount for the debt sale. On Thursday, Bank of India sold 10-year infrastructure bonds for a total of ₹5,000 crore at a rate of interest of 7.54%, the lender informed exchanges.

Joe Biden's son Hunter asked federal judges on Thursday to toss out gun and tax cases filed against him, citing a legal argument made by Donald Trump. Hunter Biden, 54, was convicted in Delaware in June on federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president. He also faces tax evasion charges in California and is scheduled to go on trial in September.

Warner Bros released a new trailer and poster for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 film «Beetlejuice.» The film will premiere at the Venice Film Festival and hit theaters on September 6.

Volcano in Iceland's Grindavik is likely to erupt again as the continuous movement of magma underneath, as per a report. The Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) has warned that the movement of magma was detected in the Svartsengi reservoir. Svartsengi reservoir is located under the surface of the Earth, as per a report on Fox Weather. In 2023, there were a number of eruptions. Streets of Grindavik had cracks after powerful earthquakes rattled Grindavik. Earlier in July, Europe's largest active volcano Mount Etna witnessed eruptions, posing risk to Italy's Sicily.

Charlize Theron is in final talks to star in the Netflix thriller 'Apex,' with Baltasar Kormákur directing. The film, written by Jeremy Robbins, follows a rock climber being hunted in the wild.

WGC) has made presentations to the Union finance ministry and Reserve Bank of India to come out with appropriate guidelines and regulatory framework for digital gold business in India. The council has asked the authorities to introduce checks and balances to ensure that the gold bought digitally by the customers is protected. It has also asked to put in place a transparent way to buy and hold gold digitally.

Congress and its government in Karnataka find themselves in a quandary over the now «temporarily» halted proposed law framed to ensure quota for locals in private sector jobs. According to some party leaders, if the bill was born out of the political compulsions of the Karnataka Congress and its government to fulfill their electoral promises, its halting in the wake of the protests from industry demonstrated the government's administrative compulsions to be sensitive to the backslash from business and investors to the proposals and avert a capital flight from Bengaluru. Congress leaders pointed out that the party's election manifesto in the run-up to the state assembly election had promised such a quota in the private sector.

Nokia's sales in India continued to plunge in the second quarter of the 2024 calendar year, in line with rival Ericsson reporting a similar fall a few days back, with their big telco clients Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel cutting down on network capex spends having concluded their pan-India 5G rollouts. Industry executives and analysts say Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson will now have to rely on fresh 4G and 5G gear supply deals with Vodafone Idea (Vi) to revive their plunging sales in India, and support global growth. On Thursday, Nokia posted a steep 68% Year-on-Year (YoY) fall in India net sales to ₹3,007.3 crore in Q2, 2024, while Sweden's Ericsson reported a 44% YoY slide in sales in its Southeast Asia, Oceania and India market to ₹6,093 crore approx) in Q2, 2024. Ericsson does not reveal India-specific sales numbers.

Bharti Airtel, under which the latter will provide network and connectivity solutions for CBDT's Taxnet-2.0 programme. This contract is an extension as Airtel has been the network partner to CBDT since 2008 in Taxnet-1.0.

BSNL even as its asset monetisation efforts to pay off liabilities are underway. The Government of India stands behind the sovereign Guarantee bonds, Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia asserted. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL's) operations will be transferred to BSNL, and monetisation of assets will take place to pay off liabilities, he said. «In the interim of monetisation of assets and some bonds coming due, the Sovereign Guarantee Bonds will stand good. Government of India stands behind those bonds and there will be no default and that is what you have seen,» Scindia said.

Vi) has approved the first tranche of allotment of equity shares via a preferential issue — aggregating Rs 615 crore — to its two European network gear vendors Nokia and Ericsson to clear a portion of their pending dues. “…the Capital Raising Committee of the board has, at its meeting held today (July 18) approved the first tranche of allotment of 41,52,02,701 equity shares of face value of Rs 10/- each at an issue price of Rs 14.80 per share (including a premium of Rs. 4.80 per equity share), to Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt Ltd (25,67,56,756 Equity Shares) and Ericsson India Pvt Ltd (15,84,45,945 Equity Shares), vendors (non-promoters) of the company, aggregating Rs 615 crore,on a preferential basis,” ),” Vi said in an exchange filing Thursday.

Maharashtra's Marathwada region for availing benefits under the state government's flagship welfare scheme for underprivileged women 'Ladki Bahin', a senior official said on Thursday. Under the Mukhya Mantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana — announced in the state budget last month — married, divorced, and destitute women aged 21-60 will receive Rs 1,500 per month, with the annual family income of beneficiaries capped at Rs 2.5 lakh. In eight districts of Marathwada in central Maharashtra, 9,27,280 women have applied for the scheme so far (till July 18), said the official from the divisional commissioner's office in a statement.

Assam government has decided to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorce Registration Act and Rules 1935 through the Assam Repealing Bill 2024. The government will table legislation in the next monsoon session of the state assembly. The state cabinet had its meeting on Thursday. Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated in X, “We have taken a significant step to ensure justice for our daughters and sisters by putting additional safeguards against child marriage. In the meeting of the state cabinet today we have decided to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages and Divorce Registration Act and Rules 1935 vide the Assam Repealing Bill 2024”. He explained, “To bring parity in registration of marriage and divorce, the State Cabinet has accorded approval to The Assam Repealing Bill,2024 which aims to repeal the Assam Muslim Marriages And Divorces Registration Act, 1935 and Assam Muslim Marriages And Divorces Registration Rules, 1935. The Bill will be placed before the next Monsoon Session of Assam Legislative Assembly for consideration”.

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla on Thursday nominated 14 members including Sudip Bandhyopadhyay, Gaurav Gogoi, Dayanidhi Maran, PP Chaudhary, and Anurag Thakur for the Parliament's business advisory committee. The committee, which is effective from July 18, will be chaired by Birla himself. The next session of the Parliament is set to commence on July 22, and the budget will be presented on July 23 by the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman.

JSW Infrastructure on Wednesday posted a net profit of Rs 295 crore for the fiscal's first quarter, down by 8.5%, dragged by higher expenses. Its revenue from operations for the April-June quarter rose to Rs 1,009.77 crore from Rs 878.10 crore in the year-ago period, it said in a BSE filing.

Shimla: The Himachal Pradesh Police has arrested one of the masterminds of a Rs 2,500-crore cryptocurrency scam, which was unearthed in the state in 2022, from Kolkata, officials said on Thursday. Accused Milan Garg (35), a resident of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh, was apprehended on Wednesday night from the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata while he was trying to flee to Bangkok in Thailand, they said. Garg, who was allegedly involved in designing and marketing of a fake cryptocurrency, was later brought to Shimla, Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG), Northern Range, Abhishek Dhullar told. Garg, who earlier fled to Dubai after the scam came to light, had returned to India in June and was again leaving the country when he was detained at Kolkata airport. The accused has been arrested and brought to Shimla, said Dhullar, who is heading an SIT probing the case.