The Delhi Police, in a statement, declared that permission has not been granted for the protest demonstrations against the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill scheduled to take place in the national capital on Thursday.

Two major protest marches are in sight for Thursday. The first one, that has been called by several Left parties, is supposed to march from Mandi House to Jantar Mantar at 12 PM.

Shares of Tata Group companies were trading mixed in the early trade on Thursday, a day after National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) reinstated Cyrus Mistry as the executive chairman of the Tata group. The 172-page order, while upholding Mistry’s charges that he was ousted without due process, said the action taken by Ratan Tata and others against the former Tata Sons chairman was oppressive and illegal.

At 09:47 am, shares of Tata Global Beverages were trading over 0.5 per cent lower at Rs 310 apiece on the BSE while Tata Steel was trading over a per cent lower at Rs 439.35.

Government-owned Bank of Baroda has reported a Rs 5,250-crore divergence in the calculation of bad loans for the 2018-19 financial year.

The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) assessment of its gross non-performing assets (NPAs) for the year is Rs 75,174 crore. Against this, the bank had reported GNPAs of Rs 69,924 crore, it told the BSE exchange. All figures are for the recently amalgamated entity, wherein Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank were merged with BoB.

Shares of NMDC hit a fresh 52-week high in otherwise subdued market, up 3 per cent at Rs 123 on the BSE on Thursday, after the state-owned company announced that the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) approved its mining plan to enhance the production of iron ore from Kumaraswamy iron ore mines in the state of Karnataka.

A Supreme Court Bench, comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sharad Arvind Bobde and Justices BR Gavai and Surya Kant, has refused to stay the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, adding that the top court will hear the petitions on January 22.

The SC on Wednesday issued a notice to the central government regarding the petitions challenging the controversial Citizenship Act.

Shares of Bandhan Bank continued to reel under pressure, falling for the fourth consecutive day, on the BSE on Wednesday. The stock declined 5 per cent at Rs 457 in the intra-day trade today.

The stock of the private sector lender was down 21 per cent thus far in the month of December. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 1.5 per cent. It was trading at its lowest level since September 20, 2019.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Wednesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his Pakistan citizenship jibe at the main opposition party. He was responding to the challenge posed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the opposition to publicly declare that they are prepared to accord Indian citizenship to all Pakistanis.

Why should we give citizenship to people who are already citizens of Pakistan? What is the meaning of such challenges to the Opposition, he asked.

Dr Agarwal’s Health Care Ltd (DAHCL) has raised Rs 215 crore from CDC Group. The money will support the company's Rs 500-crore investment plan to double its network. The eyecare chain is considering going public.

With the funding, CDC Group will get a seat in the company's board.

The deadly African swine fever sweeping across Asia has spread to Indonesia, reaching a region with more than a million pigs.

Almost 400 backyard farms in Sumatera Utara -- a province home to 1.2 million hogs -- have been struck by the virus since September, leading to 28,000 pig deaths, the Rome-based World Organization for Animal Health said on Tuesday.

A section of students of the Madras University continued their protest for the third day on Wednesday against the amendment to the Citizenship Act.

Defiant students said they will continue their agitation.

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