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Shares of PVR Inox rallied more than 4% on Tuesday after it announced that the board of directors will meet on August 31 (Monday) to consider and approve a proposal for the multiplex chain operator’s first ever buyback of the equity shares. The shares of the company jumped to a fresh 52-week high of Rs…
Shares of Ceigall India jumped 4% on Tuesday to hit the day’s high of Rs 336 on the NSE after the company secured a Rs 704.7 crore contract for the Frontier Highway project in Arunachal Pradesh. According to a filing with the exchange, the company received Letters of Acceptance (LOA) from the Ministry of Road…
Shares of Afcons Infrastructure gained as much as 4.40% during Tuesday’s trading session, touching an intraday high of Rs 290.90, after the company announced it received a favourable arbitral award worth Rs 335.50 crore. The company disclosed in a regulatory filing that an Arbitral Tribunal, in proceedings between Afcons Infrastructure Limited and Uttar Pradesh Expressways…
Gold and silver prices: The price of the yellow metal in India’s retail market rose on Tuesday, 25 August, amid ongoing uncertainty over the US-Iran conflict in the Middle East. The Trump administration on Monday announced a plan to isolate Iran’s economy by threatening to impose secondary sanctions on the ‘enablers’ keeping the Islamic Republic…
The 7th Pay Commission used a 2.57 fitment factor, but an employee body representative says a 2.1 factor under the 8th CPC could still deliver a larger effective increase once existing dearness allowance is taken into account. Central government employees tracking the 8th Pay Commission may naturally compare any proposed fitment factor with the 2.57…
Take the case of Chandigarh-based Harshdeep Kaur, who converted her home into an Airbnb in 2021, to fetch the 25% premium she had then estimated over renting. “There was a lot of growth in the first 1.5 years, but then the response weakened as more people came to know about it,” she said, noting that…
A taxpayer who had not filed his original income tax return for assessment year 2019-20 was denied a ₹5.31 lakh tax refund after claiming it for the first time in a return filed in response to a Section 148 notice. The Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), Delhi, has now directed the tax department to issue…
The 8th Pay Commission, headed by Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, was constituted on 3 November 2025. On 3 September, the Commission will complete its 10-month tenure of the 18 months allocated to it and submit its final report with recommendations on salaries, allowances and pensions to the Union government. Over the last few months, the…
It’s not often that India’s stock markets disappoint investors for a long stretch. The benchmark indices have yielded negative returns not just over the past one year, but also over a two-year time frame. In 2026, the Sensex has ended 37% of its trading days with two-year returns in red, the worst showing since 2012,…
Oil prices gained marginally on Tuesday after falling more than 2% in the previous session, as investors weighed the impact of tougher U.S. secondary sanctions on Iran. Brent crude futures were up 6 cents, or 0.1%, at $92.16 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was up 15 cents at $85.12. Both contracts fell…