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Vedanta Limited announced a second interim dividend of Rs. 1.85 per equity share for the financial year 2018-2019. The total dividend payout will amount to Rs. 685 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.63 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 10,20,986.95 crore.

Overall volumes in futures & options currently stand at 1.63 crore contracts with a turnover of Rs. 10,20,986.95 crore.

The index has seen upmove of over 450 points from the lows of 10,586 registered on February 19. The current upmove from the low of February 19 has hauled stochastic oscillator to its overbought zone, hence there is a possibility that the index may take a temporary breather at higher levels. Such a breather would help the markets to cool off the overbought situation. Stocks in news: Biocon, Himachal Futuristic Communications, Asahi Songwon colors, LT Foods, Tata Power Co, Varroc Engineering and Khadim India.

With majority of the global markets under pressure and concerns that a trade deal between the US and China could be delayed, the outlook for the Indian markets is a flat start with a negative bias in early trading. At the time of writing SGX Nifty was trading with minor loss of 2 points at 11,095.