Hitting out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Union home minister on Tuesday alleged that she did not attend the Ram temple inauguration ceremony in Ayodhya due to fear of losing out on her 'infiltrator' vote bank.His remarks came while addressing a rally at Memari in Purba Bardhaman district.The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader further said that this Lok Sabha election is a...

Banking stocks pushed benchmark indices the Sensex and the Nifty higher on April 29 afternoon. The broader market held on its own, with BSE midcap and smallcap indices rising to 0.4 percent.Around noon, the Sensex was up 682 points, or 0.92 percent, at 74,412.16, and the Nifty was up 148.80 points, or 0.66 percent, at 22,568.80. The market breadth favored gainers, as around 1,872 shares advanced, ...

A multi-billion-dollar incentive scheme for semiconductor manufacturing companies could be launched after the new government takes charge, according to a report by the Times of India. The results for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024 will be declared on June 4.The package will follow the Rs 76,000-crore scheme announced in December 2021 to support the manufacturing of chips in the country. Acco...

Shares of UltraTech Cement advanced 2 percent to Rs 9,903 intraday on April 29 ahead of the company declaring its fourth quarter results later in the day.At 11:10 am, the counter was trading at Rs 9,877, up 1.8 percent from the previous close on the NSE. The cement majors' share price has slipped 6 percent since the start of the year.India's largest cement company is poised to report robust Q4 ear...

Shares of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise dropped 8 percent in opening trade on April 29 as investors remained wary of the valuations commanded by the company's arm, Apollo HealthCo, in its recent deal with Advent International.At 9.53 am, Apollo Hospitals was trading at Rs 5,750 on the NSE.Apollo HealthCo, which manages the company's Apollo 24/7 vertical, will raise Rs 2,475 crore from global private...