West Indies' highest-ranked T20I batter Nicholas Pooran has called time on his nine-year international career.

The Trinidadian represented the West Indies 167 times, scoring 1983 ODI runs at 39.66 at a strike rate of 99.15. Pooran, who has never played Test matches for West Indies, leaves the game as the most capped West Indian in T20 Internationals with 106 matches and the leading T20I run-scorer with 2,275 runs. He last played for the West Indies in December 2024.

"After much thought and reflection, I've decided to announce my retirement from international cricket. This game we love has given and will continue to give so much - joy, purpose, unforgettable memories, and a chance to represent the people of the West Indies. Wearing that maroon, standing for the anthem, and giving everything I had each time I stepped on the field... it's hard to put into words what that truly means to me. To have led the team as captain is a privilege I will always hold close to my heart," Pooran wrote in his statement on Instagram.

The domestic benchmark indices extended their winning streak to the fifth consecutive session on Tuesday, opening with some moderate gains. However they trimmed early wins to trade a tad lower.

At 9.17 am, Sensex was up 28.49 points or 0.03 percent at 82,473.70, and the Nifty was up 21.15 points or 0.08 per cent at 25,124.35.

On the sectoral front, technology, metals and media stocks rallied sharply. The banking stocks saw mild pressure amid profit booking in trade.

The smallcap and midcap indices gained up to half a per cent, reflecting broad-based buying across the markets.

According to Akshay Chinchalkar, Head of Research, Axis Securities, Yesterday was an upside follow-through on Friday's advance for the Nifty.

In another citizen centric initiative aimed at facilitating the general public, the Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann on Monday dedicated the ultra modern Tehsil complex constructed at a cost of Rs 10.80 crore.

Dedicating the building which will house offices of SDM, Tehsildar, Naib Tehsildar and others, the Chief Minister said that the foundation stone of this ambitious project was laid in January 2023 and it has been completed in a record time span. He said that this project will immensely benefit the masses by delivering them citizen centric services in a time bound manner adding that it will facilitate the people in providing the services here at their vicinity only thereby saving their time, money and energy. Bhagwant Singh Mann said that Dudan Sadhan is primarily a rural area and earlier the office of the SDM was situated in Mini Secretariat Patiala due to which people had to suffer a lot for getting their routine administrative works done.

Olectra Greentech Ltd announced on Monday that the company’s Chairman and Managing Director, KV Pradeep, has resigned from the top post “due to personal reasons.”

The company said in the stock exchange filing that Pradeep has also resigned as director of the company.

Olectra Greentech ran into trouble with the Maharashtra government last month deciding to scrap the order for 5,150 electric buses placed with the company for the state transport service.

In a post on social media platform X, Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik said that the company had failed to deliver even a single bus from the 1,000 units scheduled for handover by May 22. Sarnaik said officials had been directed to cancel the tender for 5,150 buses due to the supplier's inaction, raising questions about the project's viability.

“We had an agreement with Olectra since January 2024, under which they were supposed to deliver over 2,000 buses by now. We had planned our operations accordingly to serve the people. But they have only delivered 220 buses so far,” Sarnaik had said.

Amid all the tariff uncertainty, India’s macros remain on a strong foothold, an HSBC Mutual Fund report said on Monday, adding that it remains constructive on Indian equities supported by the more robust medium-term growth outlook.

Due to the tariff war and global outlook, demand for safe-haven assets has led to capital outflows and weighed on emerging market (EM) currencies, including India.

"India’s exposure to the US, its trade diplomacy, and the RBI’s steady hand and its policy approach have put India on the leaderboard amid the tariff concerns that have eclipsed business and growth outlook, globally," said the outlook report.

India’s cooling inflation has provided the RBI MPC to focus on supporting growth by way of front-loaded policy easing. The MPC’s shift to a neutral stance implies that the scope for future cuts might be limited and also that it will remain data-dependent.

Under the guidance of Civil Surgeon Fatehgarh Sahib, Dr. Davinderjit Kaur, the Health Department organized special health check-up camps for pregnant women at various health institutions in the district as part of the Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan. During the camp, Senior Medical Officer Dr. Kanwaldeep Singh briefed about the importance of regular health check-ups for pregnant women. Dr. Davinderjit Kaur said that under the scheme, pregnant women are provided with free health services, including Antenatal Check-ups (ANC), on the 9th and 23rd of every month. 

Most parts of Rajasthan continued to reel under a severe heatwave on Monday as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued heat alerts for several districts.

The Meteorological Centre in Jaipur issued an 'Orange Alert' for severe heat in Sriganganagar and Bikaner for Monday, while a 'Yellow Alert' has been sounded in nine other cities of the state.

In the past 24 hours, Sriganganagar emerged as the hottest place in India, with the mercury soaring to 47.4 degree Celsius, up by 2.8 degree Celsius from Saturday.

The heatwave here began early on Sunday morning and persisted late into the night, with the border areas witnessing the brunt of the extreme weather.