Domestic shares end higher as banks, metal stocks gain
Domestic shares end higher as banks, metal stocks gain
The NSE Nifty 50 index closed 1.16% up at 14,653.05, while the S&P BSE Sensex added 1.15% to end at 48,944.14.
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UPDATED: April 27, 2021 16:37 IST
Among sectors, metal stocks led gains as it gained 2.7%, with Tata Steel jumping 3.9%. (Photo: Reuters/Representational image)
Indian shares closed higher on Tuesday, boosted by gains in banks and metal stocks, as investors looked ahead to a slew of blue-chip corporate earnings later this week.
The NSE Nifty 50 index closed 1.16% up at 14,653.05, while the S&P BSE Sensex added 1.15% to end at 48,944.14.
India gets some medical supplies as COVID-19 deaths near 200,000
By Shilpa Jamkhandikar, Rupam Jain and Sanjeev Miglani
Reuters
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, and a surge in infections pushed the death toll close to 200,000.
A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in the capital, New Delhi, though a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Britain had no surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses to spare.
France is sending eight large oxygen generating plants this week and Ireland, Germany and Australia are sending oxygen concentrators and ventilators, an Indian foreign ministry official said, underlining the crucial need of oxygen.
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India s first Oxygen Express train pulled into New Delhi, laden with about 70 tonnes of oxygen from an eastern state, but the crisis has not abated in the city of 20 million at the epicentre of the latest wave of infections. The current wave is extremely dangerous and contagious and the hospitals are overloaded, said Delhi s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, adding that a large public area in the capital will be converted into a critical care hospital.
With frustration mounting, relatives of a recently deceased COVID-19 patient attacked staff with knives at a hospital in the southeast of New Delhi, injuring at least one person, a hospital spokeswoman said.