Mother Sonia Gandhi and sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra by his side, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today field nomination papers for the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra were also with Mr Gandhi as he submitted the papers at the district magistrate’s office.

Early this morning, the Congress leadership announced its candidates for two high-profile seats – Amethi and Raebareli. Putting an end to speculation that Mr Gandhi may be fielded from Amethi, a seat he has represented thrice in Lok Sabha, the Congress picked Kishori Lal Sharma for the seat. Mr Gandhi was shifted to Raebareli, which has been represented by his mother Sonia Gandhi for two decades. Mrs Gandhi has now moved to Rajya Sabha and has left electoral politics owing to old age and health issues.

In Raebareli, Mr Gandhi is up against the BJP’s Dinesh Pratap Singh, who finished a runner-up in the 2019 election.

Sensex crashed over 1,000 points on Friday afternoon due to profit-booking and a decline in the share prices of blue-chip Reliance Industries, wiping out gains made in initial trading. Its sister index Nifty fell 275 points (1.22%) since yesterday’s closing, hours after it reached its lifetime high of 22,793.90 points.

Sensex, a 30-share pack listed on Bombay Stock Exchange, was at 73,506 points at 1:40 pm while Nifty dipped to 22,366.

The biggest laggards from the Sensex basket are Bharti Airtel, Reliance Industries, Larsen & Toubro, Nestle, Maruti, and Tata Motors. As of 2:14 pm, Reliance is trading 2.95% below its previous closing while Airtel is at -3.22%.

Bajaj Finance and Bajaj Finserv are the only two Sensex stocks in the green, as per the 2 pm data on the BSE website. While Bajaj Finance was trading 1.6% higher, Bajaj Finserv was 0.5% higher.

Sensex had climbed 128 points to settle at 74,611.11 yesterday, while Nifty had gone up over 43 points to reach 22,648.20.

The Asian markets saw Hong Kong trading in the green, but Seoul and Shanghai quoting lower. On Thursday, Wall Street had ended with gains.

KKR is presently second in the standings thanks to Narine’s scorching innings, which included a century, two half-tons, and almost a dozen wickets. If Narine’s charismatic play holds true this season, the two-time winners have a good chance of ending their ten-year winning drought in the IPL. Co-owner Shah Rukh Khan claims that the club’s philosophy depended heavily on Narine and his countryman Andre Russell, and that any injury to one of them was like a body blow to the side.