Mobile internet services have been suspended in Kashmir to prevent rumours about the health of separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, officials said on Thursday.

The services were snapped late Wednesday night after some social media posts claimed the health of the 90-year-old Geelani deteriorated, they said.

Noting that there has been an alarming increase in criminalisation of politics, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed all politicial parties to upload details of pending criminal cases against the candidates on their websites.

The top court also ordered political parties to upload reasons for choosing candidates with pending criminal cases on their website.

Organizers of the world's biggest mobile technology fair are pulling the plug over worries about the viral outbreak from China.

GSMA said Wednesday that this year's edition of Mobile World Congress will no longer be held as planned in Barcelona, Spain, on Feb 24-27.

CARE Ratings slipped nearly 8 per cent on Thursday, after reports suggested that S B Mainak, chairman, CARE Ratings has tendered his resignation.

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is said to have nudged the rating agency to remove Mainak after adverse findings against him in a forensic report.

Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, will be among the guests at Arvind Kejriwal's swearing-in ceremony that is scheduled for February 16 in Delhi's Ramlila Maidan.

She will leave for the national capital on February 15 at 5:30 PM and will be back in Kolkata after the ceremony on the next day.

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is planning to visit India later this month, multiple sources familiar with the plans told Reuters, a test for the Indian-born head who recently criticized Indian immigration policy.

India is a major market for Microsoft and other technology companies. India's southern city of Hyderabad, where Nadella grew up, is home to Microsoft's biggest research and development center outside of the United States.

YES Bank gained over 5 per cent to Rs 37.20 on the BSE on Thursday after the bank said it is in talks with potential investors, including J.C. Flowers and Silver Point Capital, for raising equity capital.

In a filing to the BSE, the lender said it had received non-binding expressions of interest (EoIs) from several investors including J.C. Flowers & Co, Tilden Park Capital Management, OHA (UK) LLP (part of Oak Hill Advisors), and Silver Point Capital.

Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the recently-listed online ticketing, tourism and the catering arm of railways, jumped over 12 per cent on Thursday, a day after the company posted strong set of numbers for the quarter ended December 31, 2019.

At 09:28 am, the stock was quoting around 10 per cent higher at Rs 1,559 apiece on the BSE. It hit a high of Rs 1,596.95 in the early trade against previous close of Rs 1,418.95. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was trading 0.14 per cent lower at 41,508 levels.

The number of fatalities and new cases from China's coronavirus outbreak soared on Thursday, with 242 more deaths and nearly 15,000 extra patients in hard-hit Hubei province as authorities changed their threshold for diagnosis.

At least 1,355 people have now died nationwide and nearly 60,000 have been infected after Hubei's health commission reported the new numbers.

Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said its wholly-owned subsidiary Network i2i plans to raise funds worth up to $250 million (approximately Rs 1,780 crore) through perpetual bonds.

This amount will be in addition to existing securities of $750 million (around Rs 5,343 crore) that the company has raised recently.

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