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vacancies in the higher judiciary and pending cases, and finalising the Memorandum of Procedure (MoP) are the key challenges before Arjun Ram Meghwal who was allocated the law portfolio on Monday. The MoP is a set of documents which guide the appointment, elevation and transfer of high court and Supreme Court judges.

Manohar Lal Khattar has been allocated Ministry of Power, Housing and Urban Development in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new cabinet.

Bengaluru: Terming the Lok Sabha election outcome in Karnataka as a «warning bell» to the Congress, its state unit chief D K Shivakumar on Monday indicated that the ruling outfit in the State is currently on a fact-finding mission to find out the reasons for the below par performance. Also the Deputy Chief Minister, he stressed on the need to look at what went wrong and rectify them, as he called upon party men not to speak before the media regarding the party's performance and blaming someone for it.

NDA government in its first cabinet meeting on Monday decided to provide assistance to three crore additional rural and urban households for the construction of houses, to meet the housing requirements arising out of the increase in the number of eligible families. Under PMAY, total of 4.21 crore houses have been completed for the eligible poor families under the housing schemes in the last 10 years.

microfinance market expanded by a fourth in FY24 with asset quality showing significant improvement following better loan recovery from the field and several rounds of balance sheet cleansing.

Lodha Place in Mumbai’s business district Lower Parel for over Rs 101.25 crore.

The NSE Nifty index ended the session 30.96 points down at 23259.2, while BSE Sensex fell 203.28 points to 76490.08.

Pakistan's central bank cut its key interest rate by 150 basis points on Monday in a widely expected move, marking its first rate reduction in nearly four years in its effort to boost growth amid a sharp decline in retail inflation.

Bannari Amman Sugars Ltd.(up 2.84%), Ponni Sugars(Erode)Ltd.(up 2.20%), Triveni Engineering & Industries Ltd.(up 1.53%), EID Parry(India)Ltd.(up 1.39%), Dwarikesh Sugar Industries Ltd.(up 1.03%), Avadh Sugar & Energy Ltd.(up 1.01%), Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Industries Ltd.(up 0.81%), Dhampur Sugar Mills Ltd.(up 0.50%), DCM Shriram Industries Ltd.(up 0.15%) and Vishwaraj Sugar Industries Ltd.(up 0.13%) stood among the top gainers.

Shares of Bank of Baroda(up 2.07 per cent), Axis Bank Ltd.(up 1.12 per cent), Bandhan Bank Ltd.(up 0.91 per cent), State Bank of India(up 0.23 per cent) and Punjab National Bank(up 0.2 per cent) ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

Shares of ended the day as top gainers in the pack.

Samajwadi Party leader Mohd Azam Khan by clearing his name in a case related to loot and indulging in violence by forcing people to vacate their dwellings in Dungarpur area eight years ago. MP-MLA court judge Vijay Kumar cleared Khan and five other accused in the case related to 2016, said Khan's lawyer Jubair Ahmad.

Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on taking oath. This was Pakistan’s first response to NDA’s victory in the Lok Sabha election.

Narendra Modi did no special favour to farmers by releasing the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi fund, which was due to them a month ago but delayed by the poll code, the Congress said on Monday. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said the release of the 17th instalment of funds, which Modi is touting as the first decision of his new government, is the legitimate entitlement due to farmers, according to the policy of his government.

Mahanagar Gas with a target price of Rs 1565. The current market price of Mahanagar Gas Ltd. is Rs 1435.55. Mahanagar Gas Ltd., incorporated in the year 1995, is a Mid Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 13641.71 Crore) operating in Gas & Petroleum sector.

Ceat with a target price of Rs 2930. The current market price of Ceat Ltd. is Rs 2543.15. Ceat Ltd., incorporated in the year 1958, is a Mid Cap company (having a market cap of Rs 9934.74 Crore) operating in Tyres sector.

Sensex and Nifty50, opened with fresh record highs on Monday, led by index heavyweight Reliance Industries and banking stocks. The BSE Sensex was trading 321 points, or 0.42%, higher at 77,014. The Nifty50 was up 110 points, or 0.47%, trading at 23,400 around 9:19 am. This is the first time that Sensex has hit the 77,000 mark.

«I think one of the important signs that we are getting is that neither the TDP nor the JD(U) appears to be putting very important people into this particular cabinet and that is a sign I think that at this point of time you are not going to see the allies pushing the BJP in any particular direction,» says Swaminathan Aiyar, Consulting Editor, ET Now. It seems quite evident that the key portfolios like my colleague was just highlighting are going to be with the BJP. Yes, there has been speculation that the BJP no longer has an absolute majority, it is going to be dependent on this fellow, on that fellow and they will have to compromise. If you just look at the ministers announced, this is very clearly a BJP cabinet. Yes, there are some other people from the other parties, they are not important people, they are not people who are going to drive policy.

There's a lot of buzz around the US Fed meeting this week. What are your thoughts? We're still of the view that there won't be a cut till September. There will likely be two to three cuts this year and three to four cuts next year. But all of this is predicated on making progress on inflation, and inflation has been a little choppy for the first quarter. At this point, we're subscribing to a soft-landing outcome.

Open access solar installations rose two-fold in India to 1.8 gigawatts during January-March this year supported by several factors, including reduced module cost, US-based Mercom Capital has said. Solar power through open access is an arrangement where a power producer establishes a solar power plant to supply green energy to consumers.

Lok Sabha is likely to have its first sitting soon, the question is who will become protem Speaker. Since this role usually goes to the seniormost MP, the focus was on Virender Kumar of BJP and Kodikunnil Suresh of Congress — the two leaders belonging to the Dalit community, with both in their eighth term. But with Kumar now becoming a minister, will the ruling side let Kodikunnil act as protem Speaker or pick a comparatively junior one from the NDA side for the job?