Sensex, Nifty today: The Indian stock market opened lower on Thursday, even as concerns surrounding the rupee and cues from the global market weigh. The Sensex opened at 37,796, and soon plunged nearly 150 points to hit the day’s low at 37,644 within minutes of opening. The broader Nifty 50 opened at 11,397, below the psychological mark of 11,400. The rupee too opened at a record low of 70.32, recording a plunge of 43 paise against the dollar.

Jeff Bezos, meet Mukesh Ambani. It’s time the Amazon.com Inc. boss took notice of his real rival in India, the only billion-strong consumer market open to Western tech firms. While Walmart Inc.’s acquisition this year of Flipkart Online Services Pvt., a homegrown e-tailer, might have given the impression that the battle for India would be an all-American contest, a new national e-commerce policy doing the rounds in New Delhi should disabuse Bezos of that notion.

GMR Infrastructure’s net loss on a consolidated basis widened by 72% year-on-year (y-o-y) to Rs 235.14 crore in the quarter ended June 30 on dwindling profits from its airports business and rising losses on the power segment.

Revenue in the quarter fell about 33% to Rs 1,876.2 crore from the same period last year. Profits from the company’s flagship airport segment fell 60% y-o-y to Rs 277 crore, notwithstanding the 14% traffic growth in the same period.

Telecom secretary Aruna Sundararajan has directed the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) to prepare a new project report based on the BSNL’s proposal for providing mobile connectivity in uncovered villages by setting up telecom towers in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected areas and Meghalaya.

BENGALURU: Appirio India Cloud Solutions is the only company that has reported growth in business among four of Wipro’s subsidiaries, which are slated to be merged into its parent.

Appirio India, which specialises on cloud computing based services, reported Rs 11.12 crore profit on revenues of Rs 76.17 crore in FY18. Last financial year, Appirio reported Rs 10.78 crore profit on revenues of Rs 69.74 crore.

BENGALURU: Infosys is putting in place a team to sell its internal learning platform Lex to clients after rebranding the product.

Lex is a mobile application that has internal content from Infosys and third-party specialised content.

Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Ajay Tyagi has said in an annual report “there are plans to consider more commodity options contracts to be launched, besides working on guidelines for index products”. Sebi will have to first finalise guidelines, which, according to sources, will suggest common standards for preparing commodity indices and later there will be regulations regarding trading.

As many as 1,677 entities, including individuals, failed to pay penalties imposed by Sebi till the end of May, according to the regulator.

The list of defaulters as on May 31, 2018 "for non-payment of penalty imposed by Sebi through orders passed up to December 31, 2017" has been published on the regulator's website on Monday.

New Delhi: Shares of State Bank of India continued to fall for the second straight session on Monday, dropping over 3 per cent after the lender reported a hefty loss of Rs 4,876 crore for the June quarter.

The stock went down 3.17 per cent to end at Rs 294.80 on BSE. Intra-day, it slumped 4.15 per cent to Rs 291.80. At NSE, shares of the company fell 2.54 per cent to close at Rs 296.70.

Bitcoin dropped below $6,000 and dozens of smaller digital tokens tumbled as this month’s selloff in cryptocurrencies showed few signs of letting up. The largest digital currency fell as much as 6.2 percent to $5,887 as of 10:44 a.m. in Hong Kong, the lowest level since June, according to Bloomberg composite pricing. Ether sank 12 percent, while all but one of the 100 biggest cryptocurrencies tracked by Coinmarketcap.com recorded declines over the past 24 hours.

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