In a recent case, National Commission observed that the policy defined an employee to include officers, clerks, servants and other employees
The broader markets, however, came under selling pressure. The S&P BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices ended 0.93 per cent and 0.28 per cent lower, respectively
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Robust buying in shares of ITC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, State Bank of India, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Bank, and M&M helped the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex scale fresh lifetime peak of 50,687.51 level
Market value of BSE-listed firms at record high
The Nifty Pharma index edged up 3 per cent, followed by gains in the Nifty PSB index (up 2.3 per cent), and the Nifty Pruvate Bank index (up 2 per cent)
The Sensex index reclaimed the 50,000 level in intra-day deals and hit a high of 50,154
Institutional investors are still digesting the retail trading frenzy that has boosted GameStop Corp and other so called meme stocks in recent sessions against their financial fundamentals
All that happened in the markets today
The BSE has become the country's first exchange to complete deliveries of Gold mini contracts under BSE-BIS India Good Delivery Standard
BSE on Friday said it has set up an "innovation sandbox" web portal where fintech firms and individuals may use the environment for offline testing of their applications in a test environment.
Both the benchmarks have erased around 5 per cent during the week
In the broader market, the S&P BSE MidCap index ended 0.4 per cen lower while the smallcap counterpart closed down 0.45 per cent.
All that happened in the markets today
India VIX ticked up 4 per cent
BSE100 firms add Rs 55K-cr assets amid pandemic, per Deloitte-Business Standard analysis
Shares of Reliance Industries ended 2.4 per cent lower on Friday ahead of the announcement of its December quarter results. The shares have surged around 6 per cent during the week
All the key sectoral indices ended the day in a sea of red
From its 3-year lows of 25,639, hit on March 24, 2020 amid the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, the benchmark index is now up 96 per cent
SEBI has advised that Future should share various details of company's ongoing litigation with Amazon when it approaches India's National Company Law Tribunal