The market on Tuesday opened flat with the Nifty above 8400. It traded up 23.65 points or 0.3% at 8415.15 while the Sensex traded up 73.91 points or 0.3% at 27191.25.

Shares such as GAIL, Adani Ports, HDFC Bank and SBI were among top gainers while Bharti, HUL, Infosys, Asian Painrs and Wipro were amongst the losers.

The domestic gems and jewellery industry, which went through a lot of turmoil in 2016, has urged the government to increase the mandatory PAN card limit to Rs 5 lakh and above, and reduce the import duty on gold to atleast 5% in the Union Budget 2017-18.

All India Gems and Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF), the apex body for domestic gems and jewellery industry, has recommended the Finance Minister to increase the mandatory PAN card limit to Rs 5 lakh and above.

The Chennai police have come under fire after a video purportedly showing some police personnel setting an auto rickshaw ablaze went viral on on micro-blogging website Twitter last evening. On Monday, the Jallikattu protests turned violent, demanding a permanent solution and not an interim stay on the ban.

The video which was aired by a news channel was also shared by several well-known personalties, including Kamal Haasan.

A charitable foundation backed by Mark Zuckerberg and his wife has said it has bought a Canadian artificial intelligence start-up as part of a mission to eradicate disease.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative did not disclose financial terms of the deal to acquire Toronto-based Meta, which uses AI to quickly read and comprehend scientific papers and then provide insights to researchers.

Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan's 'Raees' promotion by train turned fatal on Tuesday as one of his fans died in Gujarat's Vadodara.

Another person who is injured has been rushed to a hospital for immediate treatment.

Bengaluru: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday conducted raids on the premises of former liquor baron Vijay Mallya-run UB Group in Bengaluru over a money laundering case against the company.

The raids were conducted by the central division of the CBI with help from the Bengaluru division, one official from the agency confirmed. The officials were looking into various accounts of the group transactions at UB Towers in upscale Vittal Mallya Road of the city.

UIDAI is expected to make it compulsory, in next 4-5 months, for all biometric devices using Aadhaar authentication to embed Aadhaar encryption key into the device at the time of manufacturing.

Today, all such devices are STQC certified but registration by way of embedding the encryption key of UIDAI will add another security layer to the hardware at a time when such devices are all set to take the centrestage in biometric-based digital payments.

A Muslim family in the US was pleasantly surprised to receive a heartwarming letter from their neighbours, offering support to them to live without discrimination.

Abubaker Amry, who has lived in Cincinnati, Ohio for nearly four decades, said he and his neighbours do not interact much beyond a cordial "Hello," so the note someone left him, came as a surprise.

Having shouldered the bulk of responsibility in India's recent Test and ODI series triumphs, the spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja has been rested from the upcoming three-match T20 Internationals against England.

Leg-spinner Amit Mishra and off-break bowler Parvez Rasool were picked as replacements for the series beginning Thursday.

State-owned Coal India's fuel supply to the power sector dropped by 3.6 per cent to 288.2 million tonnes in the April-December period of the ongoing fiscal amid weak demand for the dry fuel.

According to official data, coal dispatches to the power sector in the same period of previous fiscal were 299.1 million tonnes (MT).

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