After a rally of about 10% in Indian stocks over the past year, the nation’s second-biggest life insurer has one message for investors: it’s time to take some profit.

“It’s time to take some money out of equities because valuations are looking stretched,” Gopikrishna Shenoy, chief investment officer at SBI Life Insurance Co., which has most of its equity assets in larger stocks, said in an interview at his office in Mumbai.

The rupee on Wednesday opened 14 paise higher at 69.56 against the US dollar amid positive global cues and rise in crude oil prices.

The domestic unit on Tuesday surged by 21 paise to close at 69.70 as easing crude prices and a weak dollar ahead of the US central bank's meeting helped the currency snap its three-day losing streak.

Shares of IRB Infrastructure skid 14 per cent on the BSE, to hit an over 5-year low of Rs 90 apiece, dragged by heavy selling pressure. The heavy sale volume was witnessed after a news report said the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) was planning to find a new operator for the Mumbai-Pune Expressway afer the company’s agreement ends in August.

President Donald Trump launched his 2020 reelection campaign Tuesday, whipping up a crowd of at least 20,000 with a nationalist boast about the US economy being the "envy" of the world and warning that opposition Democrats want to "destroy" the country.

Promising the packed arena in Orlando, Florida an "earthquake at the ballot box," Trump said: "We did it once and we're going to do it again -- and this time we're going to finish the job."

New Delhi: Tata Motors Monday launched automated manual transmision (AMT) versions of its compact sedan Tigor with price starting at ₹6.39 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).

The company has introduced two variants under its Tigor AMT range - XMA and XZA , priced at ₹6.39 lakh and ₹7.24 lakh, respectively, Tata Motors said in a statement.

Several cities in India are finding innovative ways to get rid of the growing menace of plastic. Chennai, Jamshedpur, Pune and Indore found an ingenious way and now Lucknow has joined the bandwagon.

The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) has started using plastic waste to construct roads as a pilot project. This environment-friendly road is being constructed as a trial from Gomti Nagar Police Station to Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow.

Two of the around 10 Army personnel injured in a car blast in Pulwama succumbed to their injuries in a Srinagar hospital on June 18.

“Two soldiers, brought to the hospital with severe contusions and concussions, have succumbed to their injuries, while undergoing treatment in the Army’s 92 Base Hospital. We deeply mourn the demise of our bravehearts,” said a Srinagar-based Army spokesman.

Analysts have raised concerns over Maruti Suzuki not disclosing more details pertaining to the partnership with Toyota, saying that there is a lack of communication and the company needs to be more open about the collaboration and its implications in the medium and near term.

In a letter to Maruti Suzuki CEO Kenichi Ayukawa, investment management and research firm Sanford Bernstein asked for clarity on what is Maruti offering Toyota in terms of pricing arrangements, who manufactures which model eventually and what kind of manufacturing margins will Maruti earn.

A ministerial group headed by home minister Amit Shah has given its nod to Bharat Petroleum Corporation’s (BPCL) plan to invest $2.2-2.4 billion in the Rovuma Offshore Area-1 gas field in Mozambique. The group — including finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, commerce and railway minister Piyush Goyal, external affairs minister S Jaishankar and petroleum and steel minister Dharmendra Pradhan — had met on June 4 to scrutinise the investment plan, as it is still to be approved by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).

The revenue market share (RMS) of the top three Indian telecom players has reached a state of equilibrium for the first time since the launch of Reliance Jio in September 2016 in the first three months of January-March 2019 quarter. Reliance Jio reported mobile RMS, including access services and national long-distance revenues, of near 31%, Vodafone Idea (VIL) stood at about 31% and Bharti Airtel was a tad above 29%. The remaining is shared among the smaller players.

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