A benchmark index for Indian equities built on its early gains and was ruling more than two percent higher around on Monday noon.

In a bizarre move, the Mumbai crime branch on Friday arrested senior journalist Jigna Vora, working with The Asian Age, in connection with the Jyotirmoy Dey murder case. Though its claim was that Ms Vora passed on information about Dey to underworld don Chhota Rajan, the police told the court while seeking her custody that it wanted to investigate how the information was sent.

A day after social activist Anna Hazare allegedly ridiculed the attack on Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, infuriated supporters of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) descended upon Ralegan Siddhi to protest, which then sparked a tiff between them and the villagers.

The millions of Sachin Tendulkar fans were left disappointed as the iconic batsman again came very close to his historic 100th international century only to miss it by six runs in the third cricket Test against the West Indies at the Wankhede Stadium here on Friday.

Indian equities came under heavy selling pressure and volatility on Friday, resulting in a key index fluctuating in a broad range of over 200 points, even as retail stocks soared on the back of a government decision on foreign equity the evening before.

Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid on Thursday became the second player in the history of Test cricket to compile 13,000 runs besides completing 1,000 runs this calendar year.

The allegations against UPA government by former Gujarat home minister Amit Shah in the Supreme Court that he was “framed” in the Sohrabuddin fake encounter case to “destabilise” the Modi government by using the CBI for this purpose seems to have been taken very seriously by the Centre as it pressed the services of three of its top law officers to take note of the case.

Darren Bravo smashed a second successive century to help the West Indies reach 378-3 in their first innings at lunch on the second day of the third and final Test against India on Wednesday.

Indian equities fell sharply to a two-year intra-day low on Wednesday as traders, spooked by a weak rupee and global economic turmoil, sold in droves across the market breadth. Before a recovery later, the benchmark index had plunged 586 points.

The Bombay Stock Exchange benchmark Sensex on Wednesday dropped to more than two-year low, down 365 points, as investors squared positions ahead of the monthly settlement in derivative contracts amid heavy fund outflows and weak global markets.