- Andhra Pradesh: Cong MPs from Telangana set May 30 deadline for central leadership to take positive decision on separate state
- Assam: Cong names Santiuse Kujur as party nominee for the second RS seat while AIUDF nominates Aminul Islam
- Bihar: One person killed and 2 injured when a truck hit a bike in Sobhiya area in Nawada district, say police
- Chennai: CBCID arrested three persons involved in cricket spot fixing from Coimbatore today, say officials
- Delhi: Railways plan to ease traffic congestion at New Delhi station by demarcating lines for taxis and autos, say officials
- Gujarat: Four persons die, 6 injured in a collision between a dumper, car and bike near Soila village on Sanand Bavla highway
- Haryana: Section 144 imposed in Kaithal after sacked Maruti Udyog staff threaten to gherao MP RS Surjewala, mini secretariat
- Himachal Pradesh: Four people electrocuted, five seriously injured in Chamba due to a faulty transformer
- Jammu and Kashmir: Kashmir University will set up a hostel-cum-coaching centre in Srinagar for civil service aspirants, say officials
- Karnataka: Passenger trains between Mysore and Arsikere will be cancelled from May 20 to May 22 due to doubling of track
- Kerala: Met office predicts partly cloudy sky over the state in next 12 hours; maximum temperature to be 35C
- Kolkata: Met dept predicts partly cloudy sky in Kolkata and other places across the state; maximum temperature to stay at 36C
- Madhya Pradesh: MP Congress chief meets governor after 3 BJP workers, accused in the murder of a youth in Ratlam, were not arrested
- Maharashtra: Maharashtra Engineers Federation snaps membership of PWD engineer Chikhlikar after his arrest on corruption charges
- Mumbai: Mega block on Central Railway between Mulund-Munga stations till 4 pm today due to maintenance work, say officials
- Northeast: Nagaland CM Neiphiu Rio urges Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goel to continue flights to the state
- Odisha: Arka Keshari Deo, son of BJP leader late Bikram Keshari Deo, joins Biju Janata Dal today
- Punjab: SAD and Cong workers clash at Athwal in Dera Baba Nanak block of Batala during zila parishad polls; details awaited
- Rajasthan: RBSE likely to declare results of Class 12 humanities exam in the next few days, say officials
- Tamil Nadu: CBCID arrested three persons involved in cricket spot fixing from Coimbatore today, say officials
- UP East: CM Akhilesh Yadav will address Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises conclave in Lucknow on May 22, say officials
- UP West: CM Akhilesh Yadav will address Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises conclave in Lucknow on May 22, say officials
- West Bengal: Met dept predicts partly cloudy sky in Kolkata and other places across the state; maximum temperature to stay at 36C
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Sensex closes in green, HUL top gainer
 IANS
Mumbai, July 24: A benchmark index of Indian equities markets closed 40 points up on Tuesday in choppy trade in the absence of any domestic or overseas trigger. Scrips of FMCG, consumer durables and oil and gas sectors were the major gainers.
The 30-scrip sensitive index (Sensex) of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) opened in the green at 16,907.74 points, but soon lost the momentum and amid volatility closed at 16,918.08 points, 0.24 percent or 40.73 points up from its previous day's close at 16,877.35 points. "Market continued to oscillate between gains and losses. This is mainly because of rollover procedure," said Kishor Ostwal, chief managing director (CMD), CNI Research. The BSE FMCG index was up 93.01 points, followed by the consumer durables index, up 72.57 points, and oil and gas index, up 67.05 points. The wider 50-scrip S&P CNX Nifty of the National Stock Exchange closed 0.20 percent up at 5,128.20 points. Hindustan Unilever (HUL) was the biggest Sensex gainer and closed 7.5 percent up at Rs.476.05 as the company's net profit doubled year-on-year in the quarter ended June 2012. The other major Sensex gainers were Sterlite Inds, up 2.56 percent at Rs.102.10; Maruti Suzuki, up 2.34 percent at Rs.1,105.20; Bharti Airtel, up 1.42 percent at Rs.308.15; and ONGC, up 1.19 percent at Rs.284.40. The main losers were Wipro, down 2.93 percent at Rs.346; Larsen and Toubro, down 1.45 percent at Rs.1,354.55; Sun Pharma, down 1.38 percent at Rs.608.25; BHEL, down 0.96 percent at Rs.217.70; and Mahindra and Mahindra, down 0.90 percent at Rs.686.50. Other Asian markets closed mixed. Japan's Nikkei closed 0.24 percent down while Shanghai's composite index went 0.24 percent up. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was down 0.79 percent. At closing bell here, the European markets were in the red. France's CAC was down 0.18 percent and so was Germany's DAX, down 0.21 percent. Britain's FTSE 100 was trading 0.10 percent lower.
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