After rising for two back-to-back sessions, the stock market turned weak as the benchmark Sensex fell nearly 146 points and the NSE Nifty hung below the 8,000-mark in early trade on Thursday, with participants liquidating positions in view of November month derivatives expiry.

Besides, weak Asian cues as upbeat economic data strengthened prospect of higher US interest rates and the continued free-fall of the rupee against the American currency weighed on sentiment, brokers said.

A flash fire that occurred at around 3 am on Thursday at one of the units of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL)'s DTA refinery in Jamnagar injured around eight workers.

The injured were rushed to Jamnagar Civil Hospital, according to police sources.

Aditya Puri, managing director of HDFC Bank, was the only Indian business chief to have secured a position on Fortune’s businessperson of the year report.

Puri has been at the helm of the country’s second-largest private sector lender since its inception in 1994 and has been ranked 36th on the list, out of a total of 50 business leaders.

Tata Motors has called an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) on December 22 to seek shareholders' approval for removing Cyrus Mistry and Nusli Wadia as directors of the company.

Ousted from Tata Sons, Mistry continues as Chairman of the group firms like Tata Motors and Tata Chemicals.

Seeking to give a fillip to start-up funding, markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday relaxed its rules for investment by angel funds in this space, including by allowing them to invest in up to five-year old entities.

Besides, the lock-in requirement has been reduced from three years to one year for angel funds and their minimum investment threshold has been slashed from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 25 lakh.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to scrap large bank notes have an unintended beneficiary: India’s cash-strapped power companies.

Electricity consumers who hadn’t paid their bills for months are queuing up to square their accounts as the old bills can still be used to pay charges until 24 November.

Mumbai: Ratan Tata once tried to sell Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), now the cash cow of the Tata group, to International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), a statement from the office of Cyrus Mistry claimed on Tuesday.

The statement, which came days after Tata Sons Ltd said its ousted chairman failed to “contribute materially” to TCS, denied the allegation and said Mistry had worked to future-proof the software maker’s strategy.

The Indian Cricket Board's relations with the ICC, headed by Shashank Manohar, hit a new low after Indian women's cricket team was docked six points for not playing bilateral series with Pakistan between August 1 to October 31 according to agreement.

There are possibilities that men's team might not play Champions Trophy in protest against the women cricketers being made "soft targets" in the name of rules and regulations.

To encourage widespread usage of digital payments post demonetisation, the government on Wednesday said no transaction charges will be levied on debit cards till December 31.

All public sector banks and some private sector ones have agreed to waive the transaction cost for all payments made through debit cards, Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das said.

New Delhi: Even after nearly two months of free services, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has not been able to impact the net subscriber additions for incumbent telecom operators.

In fact, the net additions in October for Bharti Airtel Ltd, Idea Cellular Ltd and Vodafone India have been higher than their last six-month average, according to a report by Citi Research.

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