Indian equity indices opened flat on Tuesday following mixed cues from Asian peers.

At 9.42 a.m., Sensex was up 21 points or 0.03 per cent at 83,010 and Nifty was up 15 points or 0.06 per cent at 25,397. Nifty Bank was up 89 points or 0.17 per cent at 52,242.

Marginal selling was seen in the midcap and smallcap stocks. Nifty midcap 100 index was down 51 points or 0.08 per cent at 60,208 and Nifty smallcap 100 index was 58 points or 0.30 per cent at 19,478.

Among the sectoral indices, Auto, PSU Bank, metal, realty and energy were top gainers. IT, FMCG and fin service were top laggards.

In the Sensex, HUL, NTPC, Nestle, Asian Paints, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance, Kotak Mahindra Bank, L&T, Titan, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank were the top gainers. Tata Motors, TCS, Maruti Suzuki, Bajaj Finserv, Tata Steel, Wipro, UltraTech Cement, Infosys and Wipro were the top losers.

Buying residential, commercial and industrial space in Mohali will now become more expensive as the district administration has hiked collector rates by 26 to 50 percent for 2024-25.

According to District Revenue Officer Aman Chawla, the increase in collector rates has been implemented from September 16.

Earlier, the collector rate was increased by 35 percent in 2021. Then in 2022 it was increased from 42 to 76 percent.

With rising disposable incomes, availability of affordable device options, a growing Gen Z population and the expanding digital content consumption, India’s audio devices market is experiencing remarkable growth, according to a new report.

The audio devices market in offline retail has reached Rs 5,000 crore, driven by a 61 per cent volume growth (year-on-year) in the personal audio segment, according to GfK– An NIQ Company, a leading global market and consumer intelligence firm.

Loudspeakers, led by soundbars, saw 24 per cent YoY growth, with sales from lower-tier towns rising to 30 per cent in the July 2023 till June 2024 period.

The home audio segment, valued at Rs 1,600 crore, experienced a 6 per cent YoY growth in volume. The personal audio market, valued at Rs 3,400 crore, experienced a 32 per cent YoY growth.

America's Otis Davis, the Olympic champion in the 400 meters and 4x400 relay at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, has died at 92, University of Oregon said.

"We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Otis Davis, our first Olympic gold medalist. He was a two-time Olympic champion (400, 4x400) at the 1960 Games in Rome and is one of the icons featured on the tower at Hayward Field," Oregon Track and Field posted on X late on Monday.

Davis only started running the 400m competitively at the age of 26 but the US athlete became an Olympic champion a couple of years later. He was the first man to break 45 seconds in the one-lap event when he ran 44.9 in that 1960 Olympic final to win ahead of Germany’s Carl Kaufmann in a photo finish, and he went on to anchor the US team to the Olympic 4x400m title.

Former US President Donald Trump has said that he will "get along well with China" and did not think that nations and others like Russia are the "enemies" that President Biden's administration considers them.

"I think we'll get along great with China," the Republican presidential candidate said on Monday during an online interview on X Spaces that again brought out his foreign policy ambivalence and his mercurial approach to policy.

The claim was in contrast to his threats to impose tariffs of 60 per cent or more on imports from China during his current campaign.

While he was President, he had accused China of "malfeasance" in causing the spread of Covid-19 and said that it had "raided our factories, offshored our jobs, gutted our industries, stole our intellectual property".

Indian and the US officials held the US-India 2+2 Intersessional Dialogue and discussions covered bilateral strategic and defence priorities as well as regional and global issues, an official statement said.

The officials of the Ministry of External Affairs and Defence and the US State and Defence Departments attended the 2+2 Intersessional on Monday.

In a post on X, Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) official spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, "India and the US held the 2+2 Intersessional on Monday with officials from India's Ministry of External Affairs and Defence, and the US State and Defence Departments. Key discussions covered bilateral strategic and defense priorities, alongside regional and global issues."

Four persons, including a three-year-old girl and a woman, were killed after an explosion occurred at a firecracker godown-cum-factory in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, police said on Tuesday.

Six persons were injured in the incident, which took place in the factory located in the Naushera area under Shikohabad police station limits on Monday night, a senior police official said.

The bodies of the deceased have been sent for postmortem and the injured have been hospitalised, the official said.

"In Shikohabad police station area, firecrackers were stored at a house and a blast occurred there. Due to the impact of the blast, the roof of a nearby house collapsed. Police took out 10 people from the debris... six people are undergoing treatment at a hospital and four people have died... further rescue operation is still underway," said Deepak Kumar, IG, Agra Range, said.

FC Goa will lock horns with Jamshedpur FC in their first Indian Super League (ISL) 2024-25 clash with the Gaurs aiming to extend their dominance over the Red Miners on Tuesday,

FC Goa ended the previous season in third position and missed out on a top-place finish by just three points. Under Manolo Marquez, the Gaurs will be determined to start their season with a win, like they have done on five occasions in the past.

Jamshedpur FC, under Khalid Jamil, would want to defeat FC Goa, a team against which they haven’t won in their previous four outings. The Red Miners are currently on a two-game losing streak, and another defeat would extend this poor run, reminiscent of their four-game losing streak last season.

"I will be taking things one game at a time. It's not a good thing to think too far ahead. Most of the opponents have a very different style. We need to approach the game correctly. We will be starting from zero and have to do the correct things to win the match, for sure," Marquez said in the pre-match press conference.

Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev told visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday that Russia is "invincible militarily" and the consequences will be "very serious" for the entire mankind if the war escalates further.

Welcoming Scholz - the first head of the German government to visit Kazakhstan in 14 years - at the Akorda on Monday, Tokayev highlighted that the Central Asian country has the longest fenced land border with Russia in the world and, at the same time, Kazakhs hold "real respect" for the Ukrainian people and their culture.

"It is clear that Russia is invincible militarily. If the war escalates further, the consequences will be very serious for all mankind, first of all, for the states directly involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Unfortunately, Istanbul refused to ratify the agreement and missed the best opportunity to achieve reconciliation. However, there is still a chance for peace. All peaceful initiatives of various states should be carefully reviewed and an agreement on the cessation of hostilities should be reached," Tokayev was quoted as saying by the President's official press service during his meeting with the German Chancellor.

One person was dead and another seven went missing due to floods caused by extreme rainfall in the Czech Republic, police said on Monday.

Police President Martin Vondrasek told Czech Radio that one person drowned in a river near Bruntal in the country's northeastern region, and police have also registered seven missing in floods.

Rivers and streams in the country have been swollen after the heavy rain since Friday. On Sunday, authorities said more than 10,500 people had been evacuated, reports news agency, quoting Czech Radio.