External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead a delegation to Pakistan for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit which will be held in Islamabad on October 15 and 16, a government spokesperson said on Friday. The visit will mark the first high-level visit from India to Pakistan in about five years. Read more

Stock Market LIVE Updates | The blue-chip indices Sensex and Nifty50 erased day’s gains to drop over 700 points; Nifty 50 slips below 25,150. The blue-chip indices traded lower for the fifth consecutive session on Friday,

Diffusion Engineers will list on BSE and NSE. While Fridays F&O ban list of stocks include Bandhan Bank, Birlasoft, Granules India, Hindustan Copper, Manappuram Finance, and RBL Bank.

The trends on Gift Nifty also indicate a gap-down start for the Indian benchmark index. The Gift Nifty was trading around 25,720 level, a discount of nearly 255 points from the Nifty futures’ previous close.

AM, Sensex tanked 1,277 points or 1.52 per cent to quote 82,989.18. The Nifty50 index crashed more than 385 points or 1.50 per cent to trade at 25,410.

The BSE Sensex stood at 82,710.92, down 1,555.37 points or 1.85 per cent. The NSE Nifty was down 484.95 points, or 1.88 per cent, at 25,311.95.