Nearly Rs 1 lakh crore has evaporated from the ITC’s market value in a month as the stock plunged close to 20 per cent after the sharp cigarette tax hike unveiled in late December.

Senior leaders of the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party maintained a guarded silence on the prospects of merger of the rival factions of the party even as Piyush Goyal said he did not expect it to happen anytime soon.

PM Modi to celebrate Sant Guru Ravidas’s 649th birth anniversary in Punjab, renaming Adampur Airport and inaugurating Halwara Airport’s new terminal in Ludhiana.