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About 543 shares have advanced, 2071 shares declined, and 138 shares are unchanged.

Overseas, the dollar rose against the yen in Asian trade today in the late afternoon trade, keeping pace with a gain for Tokyo stocks, and as investors weighed up China economic data.

About 829 shares have advanced, 1854 shares declined, and 171 shares are unchanged.

Addressing the 67th batch of Indian Revenue Service (Customs & Central Excise) officer trainees, Jaitley said if the officers maintain "absolute standards of ethics and 100 per cent integrity", they would definitely go a long way.

The government had from December 17 raised excise duty on petrol by Rs 0.30 per litre and Rs 1.17 a litre on diesel to garner Rs 2,500 crore.

Finance Ministry on Thursday said India is well prepared to deal with the impact of the US Federal Reserve interest rate hike and the end of uncertainties will actually help policy makers in emerging economies.

The local currency resumed almost flat at 66.91 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market, from its overnight close of 66.92.

Overall consolidation with negative bias ruled the market in 2015 but that may not continue in 2016, feel analysts.

India's leading English news channel CNN-IBN and the World leader in television news CNN have renewed their partnership.

The domestic unit opened lower at 66.35 as against Tuesday's closing level of 66.32 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market and dropped further to 66.67 before ending at 2-1/2 month low of 66.57, showing a loss of 25 paise or 0.38 per cent.

The meeting took place ahead of the Summit of leaders of the 20 biggest economies of the world (G20).

Union Minister of State for Labour Bandaru Dattatreya will review these investments on November 24, 2015.

US stock index futures hit session lows after the close on Friday after France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks around Paris.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation in September stood at 4.41 per cent.