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The BSE benchmark Sensex staged a strong comeback by recovering over 600 points in opening trade Friday following fresh purchases made by domestic investors ahead of key macroeconomic data to be released later in the day, fall in global crude prices and rupee recovery.

The government on Thursday extended the term of P S Jayakumar as the managing director and chief executive officer of Bank of Baroda by another year till October 12, 2019. His three-year term was to end on Friday.

The extension is being seen as an important move aimed at steering the proposed merger of Bank of Baroda (BoB), Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank. The boards of the three public sector banks have already given the nod for the merger proposal.

Continuing with its growth story, Tata Consultancy Services, the country's largest information technology services company, met the Street's expectations for the September quarter's financial numbers.

And, for the first time after many quarters, it reported double-digit revenue growth in constant currency (CC) terms, apart from widening the profitability.

India’s headline inflation data may be subdued for now, but there are mounting risks that are difficult to ignore: a record-low currency, high oil prices, and a looming election that’s prompting the government to raise food prices to placate farmers.

Data due Friday evening will probably show consumer prices rose 4 per cent in September, according to the median of 35 estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists.

Continuing its recovery, the rupee Friday strengthened 38 paise to 73.74 against the US dollar in early trade in the forex market after global crude prices eased.

Besides, dollar-selling by exporters and banks, the greenback's weakness against some currencies overseas, helped the recovery in the domestic currency.

Shares of YES Bank have rallied 6% to Rs 255 on the BSE in early morning trade after the private sector lender appointed US-based headhunter Korn Ferry to assist the bank’s committee in its selection of the new managing director & chief executive officer (MD & CEO).

The bank had announced that it would find a successor to MD & CEO Rana Kapoor whose term was cut short by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).

A Dubai-bound Air India Express flight with 133 people on-board brushed against a wall at the airport Friday, officials said.

All passengers are safe.

The plane lost contact with air traffic control officials and landed in Mumbai after around four hours, they said.

Facebook has removed 559 Pages and 251 accounts that consistently broke its rules against spam and coordinated inauthentic behaviour related to upcoming US mid-term elections.

Many were using fake accounts or multiple accounts with the same names and posted massive amounts of content across a network of Groups and Pages to drive traffic to their websites, the social networking platform said late on Thursday.

The government has told coal companies to immediately ramp up production even as it slammed their executives for not reviewing production regularly, as coal availability remains a worry.

The normative coal stock at power units — which used to be for 20-25 days — is down by half to 10-12 days. There are currently 10 units which have zero coal stock, 46 with just one-day stock and 31 with coal stock ranging from seven to 15 days.

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