Nephro Care India made a blockbuster debut on the NSE SME on Friday, with its shares getting listed at Rs 171, a 90 per cent premium over its issue price of Rs 90.

Post listing, Nephro Care shares moved higher to Rs 179.55, and locked in 5 per cent upper circuit, quoting 99.50 per cent higher over the issue price on the NSE SME.

In a major setback to the opposition BRS in Telangana, six party MLCs joined the ruling Congress late on Thursday night in the presence of state Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi continues to suffer from desertions, with several leaders, including six MLAs, leaving the party after its defeat in the Assembly polls last year.

The CBI arrested an alleged co-conspirator in the NEET-UG paper leak case, Aman Singh, from Dhanbad in Jharkhand, officials said on Wednesday. The CBI has developed intelligence about Jharkhand-based module allegedly involved in the paper leak of NEET-UG 2024 that resulted in the arrest of Singh, they said.

This is the sixth arrest by the central agency in connection with the case, the officials added.

The death toll from India’s air pollution is elevated even in cities previously thought to have relatively clean air, underscoring how the problem extends beyond megacities such as Delhi, according to a study in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.

Thursday’s report shed new light on the pervasive nature of the country’s air-quality crisis. It found that a significant share of the 33,000 yearly deaths attributable to air pollution in 10 cities examined was recorded in coastal centers like Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai, where air quality is considered to be moderate.

Mining giant Vedanta Ltd on Wednesday reported a rise in production of aluminium, zinc, iron ore and steel in the June quarter.

However, the production of mined metal at overseas and oil and gas dropped during the quarter.

In a filing to the BSE, the company said the aluminium output grew 3 per cent to 5,96,000 tonnes in the first quarter over the year-ago period, Vedanta said in a filing to BSE.

India’s $5 trillion stock market stands to gain as much as 20 per cent for the entire year, buoyed by government spending and continued momentum in corporate earnings, according to market watchers.

The upcoming government budget will likely boost consumer spending and infrastructure building, which bode well for businesses, strategists and investors surveyed by Bloomberg said.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has developed a six per cent lead over his Democratic rival incumbent Joe Biden with 80 per cent saying that the current White House occupant is too old to run for a second term, according to a latest poll by The Wall Street Journal.

The Wall Street Journal said Trump's lead over Biden in a two-person matchup, 48 per cent to 42 per cent is the widest in Journal surveys dating to late 2021 and compares with a 2-point lead in February.

The S&P BSE Sensex topped the 80,000-mark for the first-time ever in intraday trades on Wednesday, July 03, 2024, led by strong gains in banking shares, especially HDFC Bank that surged 4 per cent to Rs 1794 levels. The BSE benchmark index took just seven months to complete its journey from 70,000-mark to the 80,000-mark.

In the process, the BSE Sensex has gained 10.8 per cent so far this calendar year 2024. The index had surged as much as 7 per cent in June alone on the back of optimistic economic growth prospects post the Lok Sabha elections results.

The NEET-PG examination for admission to postgraduate medical courses is likely to be held this month, according to a report by NDTV. The announcement came after a meeting between the Ministry of Home Affairs and officials from the government’s anti-cybercrime body.

The question paper will be prepared two hours earlier, the report said. Originally scheduled for June 23, the NEET-PG exam was postponed just hours before its commencement due to allegations of irregularities, including leaked papers, in the undergraduate exam.

The death toll in the stampede at a religious congregation in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras has risen to 121, a senior official said on Wednesday.

According to the Office of the Relief Commissioner, the number of people injured in Tuesday's incident stands at 28.

Of the total fatalities, 19 are yet to be identified, it said.

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