RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said the central bank had acted ahead of time by starting to slash rates in February this year, and hoped the decision to pause the cuts earlier this month will prove to be a right call over time.

He also hoped for the US-China truce on trade tariffs, announced over the weekend, would last as he pitched for coordinated efforts to push global growth like those after the 2008 financial crisis.

Shares of Crisil continued their northward movement and hit a fresh 52-week high of Rs 1,745, up 2 per cent on the BSE on Monday in an otherwise subdued market. The stock of the rating agency company was trading at its highest level since October 2018.

In the past three months, the stock has outperformed the market by surging 39 per cent as the company reported a good set of numbers led by rating business for the quarter ended September 2019 (Q3CY19). In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex has gained 10 per cent during the same period.

Shares of Sun Pharma cracked as much as 2.84 per cent to Rs 426.50 apiece on the BSE on Monday after the company informed that the US FDA has issued a Form 483, with eight observations for its Halol (Gujarat) facility. The inspection was conducted from December 03-13, 2019, the company said in its regulatory filing.

At 09:30 am, the stock was trading over 1.50 per cent lower at Rs 431.70. In comparison, the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex was trading 72 points or 0.18 per cent higher at 41,082 levels.

All detained students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) have been released from the Kalkaji and New Friends Colony Police Stations, the Delhi Police said in a statement on Monday. Students of JMI and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) had organised a protest throughout Sunday midnight at the Delhi Police Headquarters, ITO, to protest against the alleged brutality of police personnel at the JMI campus on Sunday.

Protesters blocked trains and roads in parts of West Bengal on Monday as the state braced for the fourth day of unrest against India’s new citizenship law,

Protesters in East Midnapore and Murshidabad districts blocked thoroughfares Monday morning, inconveniencing hundreds of commuters, said officials.

Shares of BGR Energy surged 16 per cent to Rs 41.15 in early morning deals on Monday, thus rallying 39 per cent in the last two trading days after the company won a contract worth of Rs 4,443 crore from Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO).

In a regulatory filing on Friday, BGR Energy said the company was awarded a contract by Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited for the execution of 1x660 MW Supercritical Ennore Thermal Power Station Expansion Project under EPC basis.

Nifty Bank index held its gains above the crucial 32,000-mark, and hit a record high of 32,186.95 in the opening deals on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on expectations that ArcelorMittal could complete payment worth Rs 42,000-crore in the Essar Steel case to the lenders. For the world's largest steel maker, the timeline of one month for the full payment ends on Monday.

The Income Tax Department has issued as much as Rs 1.57 trillion of income tax refunds in the first eight-and-a-half-months of the current fiscal compared to Rs 1.23 trillion in full 2018-19 fiscal, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said Friday.

At a press conference called to disclose impact of steps taken to boost consumption in the economy so as to uplift growth from a six-year low, Pandey said tax refund cases have gone up by 17 per cent to 2.16 crore.

In a historic move, the Andhra Pradesh legislative assembly on Friday passed AP Disha Act 2019 to protect women and children in sexual offences cases by providing speedy investigation and justice to victims.

Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy said the Nirbhaya case and the recent Disha case have compelled the need for AP Disha Act which has many salient features.

Tamil Nadu has overtaken Karnataka to become India's top renewable power generating state in FY20 (till October).

Of the total renewable power generation in the country, nearly 17.2 per cent was from Tamil Nadu. According to Central Electricity Authority (CEA) data in 2019-20 (upto October) 85,774.92 million units (MU) of power was generated through renewable energy, of which 14,771.69 MU was generated by Tamil Nadu followed by Karnataka (14,730.08 MU), Gujarat (10,505.54), Andhra Pradesh (9,638.70), Maharashtra (8,942.55) and Telangana (3794.99 ).

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