The BSE benchmark Sensex fell over 133 points and the Nifty slipped below the 8,100-mark in early trade as banking stocks led fall on fresh selling amid mixed Asian cues.

Other sectoral indices like consumer durables, PSU, FMCG and capital goods were trading in the negative zone, falling up to 1.56%.

State Bank of India (SBI) has climbed four positions to seventh place in the league table of the companies with highest market capitalisation.

It was not part of the 10 most-valued companies list at the start of the year. Bad loans' concerns and deteriorating sentiment towards public sector bank (PSB) stocks had pushed SBI out of the list.

Telangana government’s estimated revenue loss following the Centre’s demonetisation move is to the tune of Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 crore per month, state Finance Minister Etela Rajender said.”Our estimation is Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 1,500 crore loss per month. We don’t know for how many months this (revenue loss) will continue. Till lower denomination currency notes come, there will be problems. It could be three months or six months. Depends on Central government,” he told PTI.

Sources said stamps, registration, motor vehicle and commercial tax collections in particular have taken a huge hit.

US president-elect Donald Trump hired as a senior advisor a Republican national security veteran who first worked in the White House situation room under Richard Nixon.

As deputy national security advisor, 65-year-old Fox News commentator Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, will return once again to the executive mansion as number two to former general Mike Flynn. "She has tremendous experience and innate talent that will complement the fantastic team we are assembling," Trump said, in a statement issued from his luxury Florida golf resort.

Police busted a fake Indian currency racket near here on Saturday with the arrest of six accused and seized counterfeit notes of Rs 2,000 amounting to over Rs 2 lakh.

The police seized 105 counterfeit notes of highest denomination of Rs 2,000, which was released this month following the demonetisation of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes.

Japanese auto giant Mitsubishi Motors will recall 3,804 vehicles in China's mainland due to its defective airbags, a top quality watchdog here has said.

The recall, set to begin on March 16, 2017, affects imported Pajero vehicles manufactured between December 6, 2007 and December 26, 2009, according to a statement on the website of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine.

Praising the implementation of the demonetisation policy by the Narendra Modi government, Tata Sons interim chairman, Ratan Tata, today said that the bold step taken by the Prime Minister, to curb the flow of blackmoney in the country, will need the whole nation’s support.

In a tweet, expressing support towards the initiative taken by the central government, Ratan Tata stated that the black money economy in the country had ‘fueled tax evasion, money laundering and corruption.’

Assuring severe retribution, Pakistan Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has asserted that they will kill three Indian soldiers for every Pakistani soldier they neutralise.

Speaking in the National Assembly on Friday, Asif said that dire consequences would be faced by India if it went to war against Pakistan.

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States (US) and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, state-run Cuban Television said. He was 90.

Castro, in poor health since an intestinal ailment nearly killed him in 2006. The bearded Fidel Castro took power in a 1959 revolution and ruled Cuba for 49 years with a mix of charisma and iron will, creating a one-party state and becoming a central figure in the Cold War.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took part in an hour-long yoga session with top police officers of the country, who gathered at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy for an annual conference focusing on cross-border terrorism, infiltration and radicalisation of youth.

Later, he paid tributes to Martyrs Column at SVPNPA in Hyderabad, where he placed a wreath.

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