Stock markets closed on Thursday and Friday on account of Mahavir Jayanti and Good Friday
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BSE Sensex, NSE Nifty are closed on Thursday and Friday due to public holidays. Trading will resume on Monday.
The benchmark BSE Sensex on Wednesday began the new fiscal year on a promising note by gaining more than 300 points to settle the day at 28,260.14, recording first weekly gain in three weeks while Sun Pharmaceutical Industries and Ranbaxy Laboratories surged ahead of a planned merger.
After a slightly lower start at 27,954.86, the 30-share BSE barometer slipped further to 27,889.02. However, with the emergence of widespread buying the index surged to day’s high of 28,298.34.
It finally closed at 28,260.14, higher by 302.65 points, or 1.08 per cent than its previous close.
The 50-share NSE Nifty, retested the crucial 8,600-mark but settled 95.25 points higher, or 1.12 per cent, at 8,586.25.
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Shares of YES Bank climbed as much as 8.98 per cent to hit an intraday high of Rs 28.50 apiece on Monday, after the private lender announced a strong set of March quarter results (Q4FY24).
YES Bank’s profit jumped over 123 per cent to Rs 452 crore in Q4FY24, as opposed to Rs 202.43 crore reported in Q4FY23.
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The Congress on Monday attacked the BJP over the alleged sex scandal involving the grandson of JD(S) supremo H D Deve Gowda, with party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asking whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi will remain silent on the matter.
The opposition party also asked why the BJP went ahead with its alliance with the JD(S) when a BJP leader had written to the party's Karnataka unit president, exposing the presence of a pen drive full of "sleaze videos of Prajwal Revanna".
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China is gearing up to launch a robotic spacecraft on a mission to bring back samples from the dark side of the moon. This mission is prelude to three challenging missions aimed at achieving a Chinese crewed landing and establishing a base on the lunar South pole. And it will also be the world's first attempt at collecting samples from the other side of the moon.
Since the inaugural Chang’s mission in 2007, named after the legendary Chinese moon goddess, China has made substantial strides in its lunar exploration efforts, narrowing the technological divide with the United States and Russia.
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The Japanese yen hit its weakest levels since April 1990 on Monday, in trading thinned by a holiday in Japan and attempts by traders to test key levels and stop-loss orders in a nervous, illiquid market.
The dollar rose as far as 160.245 yen in a sudden move after the yen traded in a narrow 158.05-158.15 range in early deals.
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Veteran politician, BJP MP and former Union Minister V Sreenivasa Prasad died on Monday, family sources said.
The 76-year-old Lok Sabha member from Chamarajnagar was ailing for some time and being treated at a private hospital, where he passed away early today.
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