Benefiting from its expensive 'plus' models and rising demands of its products, Apple Inc will be worth at least $824 billion this year, analysts have predicted. ....

The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex) on Tuesday opened on a higher note during the morning session of the trade. ....

Falling for the third straight day, the Sensex at the Bombay Stock Exchange declined 48 points, or 0.2 percent, to close at 29,414, on Monday. The Sensex had gained 33 points at the day's high, and shed 98 points at the day's low. The Sensex has now lost over 370 points in three trading sessions. The Nifty at the National Stock Exchange fell 12 points, or 0.1 percent, to 9,139. But the broader market outperformed, with the BSE Midcap index rising 0.3 percent and the Smallcap index gaining 0.5 percent. ....

National passenger carrier Air India has formulated new guidelines to deal with unruly passengers with hefty fines up to Rs 15 lakh proposed. ....

India's annual rate of inflation based on wholesale prices softened in March at 5.70 per cent after having risen to over a three-year high of 6.55 per cent in February on rising food and fuel prices, official data showed on Monday. Industry said its upward push on retail inflation could dampen the possibility of an RBI rate cut. ....

Industry chamber Assocham on Sunday asked the government to clearly define the scope of e-commerce under the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, as the current definition is wide enough to even cover commodity derivatives exchanges. ....

Petrol price will be up by Rs 1.39 per litre, while diesel price will go up by Rs 1.04 per litre from Sunday, the Indian Oil Corporation announced on Saturday. ....

Global oil prices rose more than 1.8 percent on Saturday, but analysts remained cautious about record-high crude inventories. ....

The Punjab government on Saturday announced the setting up of an Expert Group to assess the quantum of agricultural debt and suggests ways and means for its waiver. ....

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued a new set of enabling provisions to resolve the problem of banks' mounting non-performing assets (NPAs), or bad loans. ....