Amid the growing demand for postponement of NEET, JEE exams 2020, National Testing Agency (NTA) on Tuesday confirmed that the exams will take place on the dates announced earlier.

JEE Mains exam 2020 will be held from September 1 to 6, while the NEET (UG) exam 2020 will be held on September 13.

The bidding process for the Private Player Train project will be extended for a month. The project will now invite bids from private players till October 7.

Previously, the bids were supposed to be handed over by September 8.

On August 12, The private companies involved in the bidding process had asked for more time and requested to extend the date of bidding from September 8.

Shares of Deepak Nitrite extended their winning run and gained 9 per cent to a fresh 52-week high of Rs 825 on the BSE on Tuesday. The stock had already risen 18.5 per cent in the last two sessions as compared to Sensex's 1.5 per cent gain during the same period.

At 11:46 AM, the stock had pared the day's gain and was trading 1.68 per cent lower at Rs 743.35. Around 58.13 lakh shares have changed hands on the NSE and BSE so far.

Shares of ICICI Bank extends its gains into fourth straight day, up 2.2 per cent to trade at Rs 388.85 on the BSE on Tuesday after Societe Generale on Monday offloaded shares of the bank worth nearly Rs 341 crore through an open market transaction.

"As per the block deal data on the BSE, 9 million scrips of the private lender were sold by Societe Generale at a price of Rs 378.6 per scrip. The total deal value stood at Rs 340.74 crore, said a PTI report.

Dr Reddys Laboratories Ltd tuesday announced its entry into the hospital nutrition segment with the launch of 'Celevida Maxx' in India.

It is a unique addition to Dr Reddys nutrition portfolio and is designed to help manage the nutritional needs of Cancer, Critical Care and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients in India, a press release from the company said.

On Tuesday morning, auditor of Vividrage Rhealityx (the company of Sushant Singh Rajput and Rhea Chakraborty) and late actor's chartered accountant Sandip Shridhar arrived at DRDO guest house in Santacruz, where the CBI team investigating the actor's death case, is staying. Sushant's roommate Siddharth Pithani and Neeraj Singh, who was the cook at his residence also reached DRDO guesthouse. The interrogation of three people will be starting in a while by the CBI team probing the death case of Sushant.

With more than 60,000 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's COVID-19 count on Tuesday crossed the 31 lakh-mark, while the death toll has crossed the 58,000-mark as well.

At 9:30 AM on this day, the COVID-19 tally in the country has reached 31,67,324 cases, which include 7,04,348 active cases; 24,04,585 cured, discharged, or migrated patients, and 58,390 deaths.

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 23.5 million, while the deaths have increased to over 811,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

As of Tuesday morning, the total number of cases stood at 23,571,084 and the fatalities rose to 811,748, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed in its latest update.

Gold prices Tuesday fell to 55,310 from Rs 55,610 per 10 gram, while silver declined to Rs 66,700 from Rs 67,110 per kg, according to Good Returns website.

Gold jewellery prices vary across India, the second-largest consumer of the metal, due to excise duty, state taxes, and making charges.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday (local time) held a telephonic conversation with China`s Vice Premier Liu Hu to discuss the implementation of the "historic" Phase One of economic and trade agreement between the two countries.

The top U.S. and Chinese officials, who spoke by phone on Monday, see progress on resolving issues over the Phase 1 trade deal reached in January and both sides are committed to the success of the agreement, the U.S. Trade Representative`s Office said.

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