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Stock markets snap 3-day rally dragged by metal, IT stocks

A screen displays an image of U.S. President Donald Trump at the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai, India. (Photo: Reuters

Mumbai, Jan 30 (PTI) Benchmark equity indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower on Friday, snapping a three-day rally, dragged by metal, IT stocks and caution ahead of the Budget presentation on February 1. Fresh foreign fund outflows and weakness in the rupee also added to the bearish trend in the equity markets. The 30-share BSE Sensex declined 296.59 points or 0.36 per cent to settle at 82,269.78. During the day, it tumbled 625.34 points or 0.75 per cent to 81,941.03. The 50-share NSE Nifty dropped 98.25 points or 0.39 per cent to end at 25,320.65. From the Sensex firms, Tata

Trump says Federal Reserve chair pick due Friday after meeting Warsh at White House

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Jan 30 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is expected to name a successor to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday after a White House meeting the previous day with former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh, a Fed critic who has ​said the U.S. central bank needs “regime change” to regain lost credibility. Trump told reporters at the Kennedy Center on Thursday that he would announce his choice the next ‌morning, and that it would be “somebody that could have been there a few years ago … I think it’s going to be a very good choice. I hope so.” Warsh,

Gandhi a way of thinking which ideology of hate unsuccessfully tried to erase: Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi, Jan 30 (PTI) Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Mahatma Gandhi is not just a person, but a way of thinking that an empire, an ideology of hatred and arrogance of power, unsuccessfully tried to erase at different points in time. Terming Mahatma Gandhi the “immortal soul of India”, the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha paid tributes to the Father of the Nation, saying that along with Independence, he gave the nation a fundamental principle that the power of truth is greater than the power of authority. “Mahatma Gandhi is not just a person,

Sangh Parivar still afraid of Mahatma Gandhi: Kerala CM

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 30 (PTI) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 78th death anniversary and claimed that the Sangh Parivar was still afraid of him and his memory and that is why his name was removed from the rural employment guarantee scheme. Vijayan, in a Facebook post, said that Gandhi was killed because of his uncompromising stance on secularism and his vision of a pluralistic India that embraces diversity and disagreement. He claimed that the Sangh Parivar was afraid of the memory of the Father of the Nation and hence his name was

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