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Mumbai: The rupee fell marginally by five paise to 60.52 against the US dollar in early trade Monday at the Interbank Foreign Exchange market due to increased demand for the US currency from importers.

Forex dealers said besides the dollar's gains against other currencies overseas, increased demand from importers for the American unit put pressure on the rupee but a higher opening in the domestic equity market, capped the losses.

The rupee recovered 20 paise to close at over three-week high of 60.47 against the US dollar in the previous session on Friday following strong local equities and capital inflows.

Mumbai: The BSE Sensex and the NSE Nifty soared to hit new all-time high of 26,582.27 and 7,957.70 points in early trade Monday with stocks of healthcare, banking and oil & gas leading the rally on sustained fund inflows amidst a mixed Asian trend.

The 30-share index, which had gained over 105 points in the previous two sessions, gathered another 162.72 points, or 0.61 percent, to hit a new record high of 26,582.27, breaching its earlier peak of 26,530.67 reached on August
19.

All the sectoral indices were trading in positive zone with gains up to 0.73 percent.

New Delhi : The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce it verdict Monday on petitions which seeks quashing of coal blocks allocated during the previous UPA regime.

A bench headed by Chief Justice R M Lodha has examined the allegations about alleged irregularities in the allocation of around 194 coal blocks without following proper guidelines.

The coal blocks were alloted in Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh to private companies and parties bewteen 2004 to March 2011.

London : Oscar-winning British filmmaker Richard Attenborough, renowned for his critically-acclaimed biopic on Mahatma Gandhi, has died. He was 90.

The actor`s son, Michael Attenborough told the BBC that his father died at lunchtime yesterday. He had been in poor health for some time.

Lord Attenborough won an Academy Award for best director for `Gandhi`, one of many highlights of a distinguished career that spanned six decades, on both sides of the camera.

Jangipur : Amid repeated ceasefire violations by Pakistan, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley on Sunday said there has been a series of "provocations" by Pakistani Army and the country's armed forces are "responding adequately".

"I have said yesterday and repeating it today that there has been a series of provocations from the Pakistani Army in the last few fays," he told reporters on the sidelines of inauguration of Murshidabad campus of Management Development Institute (MDI).