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Sustained buying by funds amid a firm trend on other Asian bourses helped Indian stocks rally. Foreign investors bought 107.5 million rupees worth of Indian shares on Thursday.
The 30-share index, which had gained 101.48 points in the previous three sessions, rose further by 127.87 points, or 0.63 per cent, to 20,438.61, with stocks of healthcare, realty and metal sectors leading the rise.
The revised GDP data for 2013/14 fiscal year, ending March 31, will be released on Friday around 12 GMT. The Indian Finance Minister will present an interim budget for the coming fiscal year in parliament on February 17 as the nation is gearing up for general elections slated in April this year.
The economic growth of Asia’s third largest economy is likely to accelerate 5.6 per cent in 2014-15 from the projected growth of less than five per cent in the current fiscal ending March, according to economic think-tank NCAER.
For the current financial year India’s GDP growth is expected to remain in the range of 4.7 to 4.9 per cent, the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) said in a report on Thursday.
TBP and Agencies
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57 founding members, many of them prominent US allies, will sign into creation the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank on Monday, the first major global financial instrument independent from the Bretton Woods system.
Representatives of the countries will meet in Beijing on Monday to sign an agreement of the bank, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. All the five BRICS countries are also joining the new infrastructure investment bank.
The agreement on the $100 billion AIIB will then have to be ratified by the parliaments of the founding members, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a daily press briefing in Beijing.
The AIIB is also the first major multilateral development bank in a generation that provides an avenue for China to strengthen its presence in the world’s fastest-growing region.
The US and Japan have not applied for the membership in the AIIB.