Welcoming the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the death penalty of four convicts involved in the Nirbhaya gang rape case, Maharashtra's public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on Friday, however, expressed his apprehensions about top court's order being challenged.

Nikam said the convicts still have the option of approaching the President and can file a mercy petition asking him to revoke the order.

As many as 200 students of Rani Jhansi School in Tughlakabad were admitted to four hospitals on Saturday after they fell ill due to gas leakage from a depot in southeast Delhi's Tughlakabad area.

The depot is located near a school in Railway Colony, Tughlakabad.

Global alternative asset firm TPG-managed The Rise Fund has agreed to invest $ 50 million in Hyderabad-based dairy products company Dodla Dairy Limited. The investment will be the the fund's first in the food and agri sector as well as its first in India.

Founded in 1995, Dodla procures and processes fresh milk to sell dairy products across 66 regions in South India. Its offerings are milk, curd, butter and ghee.

State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and its partner Lakshmi N Mittal will invest about $3 billion in setting up a petrochemical complex at their Bhatinda refinery in Punjab.

HPCL-Mittal Energy Ltd (HMEL), a joint venture between HPCL and Mittal Energy Investments Pvt Ltd, Singapore, plans to set up an up to 1.7-million tonne naphtha cracker unit to produce basic raw material that goes into making of plastics.

Baahubali - The Conclusion has become the first ever Indian movie to clock Rs 800 crore and is expected to cross around Rs 1,000 crore in the coming week.

According to industry sources, the two films in the series -- Baahubali: The Beginning and Baahubali 2: The Concludion -- had a budget of around Rs 450 crore.

The Supreme Court of India today upheld the death sentence to four convicts in December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya Gangrape Case — Akshay Thakur, Pawan Gupta, Vinay Sharma and Mukesh Singh.

A three-judge bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra and comprising of Justices R. Banumathi and Ashok Bhushan. While pronouncing the verdict Justice Dipak Misra said modern methods were used in the investigation and a criminal conspiracy by the convicts was established, according to CNN-New 18. Justice Misra also said that the Dying Declaration of Nirbhaya was “beyond doubt”, while pronouncing that the CCTV footage was correct.

In a development confirming the split within the Samajwadi Party (SP), senior party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Friday announced the formation of a new party which will be named as 'Samajwadi Secular Morcha'.

Shivpal announced that Samajwadi leader Mulayam Singh Yadav would be the party's national secretary.

Head Hunters India, an executive search firm, today termed the Infosys' move to hire 10,000 Americans as an act to 'appease' US President Donald Trump's administration which has tightened the rules of H-1B visa programme to stop its 'abuse'.

Head Hunters India Founder-Chairman and Managing Director K Lakshmikanth also said local hiring in the US was very costly and would lead to offshore job cuts in India.

Tata Motors dipped 4% to Rs 420, extending its Thursday’s 2.3% fall on BSE, after the company said Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) reported 2.3% decline in retail sales of 40,385 units in the month of April.

The stock is trading at its lowest level since May 30, 2016. It hit a 52-week low of Rs 376 on May 11, 2016 in intra-day trade. Till 11:58 am; a combined 4.8 million shares changed hands on the counter on BSE and NSE.

The Supreme Court on issued notice on ousted police chief T.P. Senkumar's contempt plea against the State's Chief Secretary, Nalini Netto, for not issuing the official orders re-appointing him to the helm of the police force.

“This is in bad taste. This proves the allegations of malafide against you”, the court observed while reacting to Kerala government’s admission in the court that Mr. Senkumar was never State police chief.

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