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Power Minister RK Singh asserted that the target of 100 per cent electrification would be achieved by December 31.

Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale said Prime Minister Narendra Modi will raise the issue of volatility in global oil prices at the G20 Summit in Argentina.

The AAI claims the airline's dues have crossed the 80 per cent of threshold of its security deposit.

Patel steered clear of controversial issues like Section 7 of the RBI Act, NPAs and the autonomy of the central bank in front of the parliamentary committee.

A total 216 projects of railways are facing total cost overrun of Rs 2.46 lakh crore, as per the flash report of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for July 2018.

For the trading week ended Thursday, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), TCS, HUL, Infosys, SBI and ICICI Bank witnessed a decline in their market capitalisation (m-cap), while HDFC Bank, ITC, HDFC and Maruti Suzuki India were on the gainer's side.

According to complaints posted on Instagram, Bhatia touched the 'victims' inappropriately and forcibly trying to kiss them.

Changes have also been made in various other indices, including Sensex Next 50, BSE 200 and BSE 500 and sectoral indices such as bankex and Teck.

The income tax department has asked field offices to examine the books of hotels and restaurants to see if there is any 'under reporting' or 'non-reporting' of service charge collected by them.

Besides, profit-booking in recent gainers too fuelled the downward trend.

The 30-share index dropped 104.41 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 35,670.47 points in opening trade. The gauge had rallied about 633 points in the previous three sessions.

Various offices of the government and the CAG were asked to submit views latest by August 10, 2018. The CAG had earlier sought comments on expenditure made by the government to provide relief during demonetisation.

Replying to a question, he said it is unfortunate that economists and intellectuals have not taken the right position on demonetisation and GST.

Earlier on October 5 also, the matter was adjourned for November 12 for next hearing by the appellate tribunal.

Reflecting the market's better mood, all the sectoral indices led by consumer durables, IT, healthcare and banking were trading in the positive zone with gains up to 1.66 per cent.

Regarding transfer of surplus reserves to the exchequer, RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi observed that the central bank, after completing its annual audit, gives due share to the government.