The equity benchmark Sensex rallied for the fourth straight session Wednesday, and jumped 267 points, on encouraging second quarter earnings by tech major Infosys and positive global cues.

The 30- share Sensex soared 267.26 points, or 0.76 per cent, to 35,429.74. It had rallied 1,161 points in the previous three sessions.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Tuesday pipped the information technology (IT) giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to become the country’s most valued firm by market capitalisation. As per Tuesday’s close, Reliance Industries’ market capitalisation was recorded at Rs 7,37,576.57 crore on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), up Rs 1,471.26 crore from that of Tata Consultancy’s market capitalisation of 7,36,105.31 crore on Tuesday, data available with the stock exchanged showed.

Amazon on Tuesday announced a new investment of $10 million in Closed Loop Fund (CLF) to support recycling infrastructure in the US aimed at cutting the amount of waste treated at landfills.

Amazon said its investment will increase the availability of curbside recycling for three million homes in communities across the country, making it easier for customers to recycle and further develop end markets for recycled commodities, Xinhua reported.

With the city rolling out Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to battle deteriorating air quality, the odd scheme may make a comeback if it plummets to 'very poor' or 'severe' category. The Delhi government and the Supreme Court empowered Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) are mulling this and banning of construction activity as future measures if the air continues to worsen.

The government has increased the rate of interest for General Provident Fund (GPF) and other related schemes by 0.4 percentage points to 8% for the October-December quarter.

The rate is in line with that for Public Provident Fund.

Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro (L&T), which is majority owned by its employees, is the only domestic firm to be featured among the top 25 companies in the Forbes’ global 2000 best employers list that is led by Google parent Alphabet.

While L&T is ranked 22, there are only four domestic firms in the top 100 list which include Mahindra & Mahindra at 55, Grasim Industries at 59 and HDFC at 91, and only 24 domestic companies in the overall list, according to the US magazine.

Infosys on Tuesday said it would pay its former chief financial officer Rajiv Bansal the pending severance package amount of Rs 121.7 million as directed by the arbitration tribunal in September this year.

“The company has received the legal advice and will comply with the award and make the necessary payments,” it said in an exchange filing.

Financially-stressed full-service airlines in the country are slashing their sales and distribution costs by renegotiating contracts, but such measures could compromise their market reach.

On Sunday, state-owned Air India selected UK-based Travelport as its exclusive ticket-distribution service provider in the country.

An executive of state-owned Indian Oil Corporation on Tuesday said the company was hoping to raise at least $300 million under the new working capital norms within 20 days from now.

IOC had last week said it would invest Rs 54.63 billion in setting up a city gas distribution network for retailing CNG to automobiles and piped cooking gas to households in seven districts.

A panel of female journalists has written to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding the dismissal of Union Minister M.J. Akbar who has been accused of sexual harassment by a dozen women in the wake of the #MeToo movement.

We are extremely concerned that he continues to be a minister in the Union council of ministers even as he pursues whatever legal course of action he plans.

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