The benchmark BSE Sensex on Monday recovered over 321 points in early trade on fresh buying by investors amid a firm trend in Asian markets and better-than-expected earnings from HDFC Bank.

Moreover, the rupee appreciating by another 8 paise to 73.24 against the US dollar and easing crude prices also buoyed sentiments.

One97 Communications-backed Paytm on Sunday announced that PayPay Corporation, its joint venture between SoftBank Corp and Yahoo Japan Corporation, has launched PayPay, a smartphone-based settlement service in Japan.

It is built around the QR-technology from Paytm that has over 300 million customers and over 9.5 million offline merchants. SoftBank is utilising Paytm’s technology and expertise in mobile payments.

Top-level exits continue at Infosys, the country’s second largest company in information technology services.

The latest one being Ken Toombs, global head of consulting at the Bengaluru-based entity. Highly placed sources said he is presently serving out the mandatory notice period.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is probing the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines and the acquisition of 111 aircraft for alleged money-laundering during the UPA-1 era, The Indian Express reported on Saturday. The ED probe has come more than a year after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) began investigating the deals.

The European Commission on Saturday announced it has approved the $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft.

The Commission said that effective competition in the relevant markets would continue and Microsoft would have no incentive to undermine the open nature of GitHub’s platform.

Private lender HDFC Bank on Saturday reported a 20 per cent increase in its net profit to Rs 50.05 billion during the quarter ended September.

The bank's performance was in line with estimates, especially with healthy growth in the net interest income. The private sector lender had registered a net profit of Rs 41.51 billion in the July-September quarter of 2017-18 (FY18).

Expressing grief over the train accident in Punjab, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has questioned the level of preparedness for the public event near railway tracks.

More than 58 people were mowed down by a train on railway tracks Friday evening at Joda Phatak area near Amritsar during Dussehra celebrations.

Android manufacturers will have to pay $40 per device to Google in Europe to be featured into Google Play Store and other mobile apps.

According to a report in The Verge on Friday, a confidential fee schedule shows costs as high as $40 per device to install the "Google Mobile Services" suite of apps.

Globally, it was called Hyundai Atos. When this tall car with a short bonnet and a vertical back was launched in India on September 23, 1998, Hyundai chose the name Santro—taken from Saint-Tropez, the French city famous for fashion—because the company wanted to project it as a ‘fashionable’ new car. It was the first uniquely-designed small car that was not a Maruti (Fiat had launched the forgettable Uno in 1996), and it appealed to customers.

Investors have lost close to Rs 4 lakh crore in the last two trading sessions alone; the total wealth eroded since September is now Rs 22.3 lakh crore.

On Friday, the Sensex shed 463.95 points, or 1.3%, to close the session at 34,315.63 while the broader Nifty 50 pared 149.5 points, or 1.4%, to end at 10,303.55. With Friday’s fall, the Nifty 50 has come off more than 12% from its August highs.

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