Ashok Leyland, Finolex Industries, Havells India, NBCC (India), NIIT Technologies and Petronet LNG are among 21 stocks from the S&P BSE500 index hit new highs today.

Reliance Industries (RIL), Kotak Mahindra Bank, Adani Transmission, Hindalco Industries and Indraprastha Gas are among 21 stocks from the S&P BSE500 index, which hit their respective new highs on the BSE on Wednesday in an otherwise weak market.

Arun Kumar Singh, executive director, retail, BPCL, told FE, that they expect the safety clearance to come in next one month and the online retailing to start by December-end.

Inspired by the online and e-commerce boom in the country, oil marketing companies — Indian Oil, HPCL and BPCL — are planning to start online retailing of diesel to cater to the rural customers and commercial establishments helping them save time and improve their productivity.

Reliance Industries may look at exiting its US shale assets, provided it gets fair value similar to Carrizo asset sold earlier this month, even as the company faces the challenges of low price environment.

Reliance Industries may look at exiting its US shale assets, provided it gets fair value similar to Carrizo asset sold earlier this month, even as the company faces the challenges of low price environment.

Wipro’s IT services revenue stood at Rs 13,169 crore, a sequential growth of just 1% while in constant currency terms, the increase was a mere 0.3%. In dollar terms, revenues for Q2FY18 were up 2.1% sequentially.

A reasonably good performance in the September quarter notwithstanding, software major Wipro on Tuesday toned down revenue guidance for Q3FY18 to 0-2%. Analysts said the downward revision reflects the subdued demand environment though the Wipro management attributed it to seasonal holidays during this period.

In the second phase of panachayat election in Maharashtra, the BJP did magnificently to win 1311 seats followed by Congress who finished a distant second with 312.

Sharad Pawar’s NCP came third with 297, while the Sena managed to capture 295 seats.

A total of 3692 gram panchayats spread over 16 districts went to polls in the second phase.

The stock dipped 7% to Rs 475 on the BSE in early morning trade.

Axis Bank dipped 7% to Rs 475 on the BSE in early morning trade after the bank’s asset quality worsen in July-September 2017 quarter (Q2FY18).

The bank’s gross non-performing assets (NPAs) and net NPAs stood at 5.9% and 3.12% in Q2FY18 against 5.03% and 2.30% in Q1FY18, respectively. In the year-ago quarter, gross NPAs were at 4.17% and net NPA were at 2.02% of the loan book.

Priced at Rs 2,200, the Bharat-1 feature phone costs a tad higher than Reliance JioPhone, but the effective ownership cost of the phone after 3 years of use is lower than that for JioPhone Targeting the 500 million feature phone users of India, Micromax on October 17 launched the Bharat-1, a 4G LTE-enabled feature phone with true smartphone like capabilities, in partnership with BSNL.

Priced at Rs 2,200, the Bharat-1 feature phone costs a tad higher than Reliance JioPhone, but the effective ownership cost of the phone after 3 years of use is lower than that of JioPhone.

MUMBAI: Bajaj Auto today reported a marginal decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 1,193.58 crore for the September quarter, 2017-18.

The Pune-based company had reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 1,200.72 crore for the July-September period of last fiscal.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India constituted a committee on Monday to review the norms for market infrastructure institutions such as stock exchanges, depositories and clearing corporations. The committee will be headed by former Reserve Bank of India deputy governor R. Gandhi.

Sebi’s move comes after it proposed a review of regulations related to ownership and governance of market infrastructure institutions earlier this year.

New Delhi: The country’s second largest software services firm Infosys Tuesday said it will announce financial results for the second quarter on 24 October.

“Infosys will announce the results for its second quarter ended September 30, 2017 on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 around 3:45 pm Indian Standard Time,” Infosys said in a BSE filing. In a departure from its usual practice, Infosys has delayed the announcement of results by a couple of days—it typically announces its financial numbers at the beginning of the earnings season.