After opening the day positively, the 30-share index Sensex continued its positive run on the back of heavy buying activity witnessed in frontline stocks.

Metals, consumer goods and realty stocks gained ground.

All sectoral indices went up, while BSE Midcap and Smallcap index gained 1.61% and 1.66% respectively.

Today, the BSE Sensex started the day at 9,806.64, up 90.48 points, as against its previous closure in which it gained 182.64 points at 9716.16.

Last month terror strikes in the country’s financial capital, Mumbai have made India’s Armed Forces to modernize their medical services so as to minimize the reaction time during emergency situation.

Commenting on this, Lt Gen Yogendra Singh, Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) said, “We are streamlining the disaster management system in all the major hospitals to minimise the response time from two hours to one hour.”

Country’s largest processor of fruits and vegetables, Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd (JISL) announced that it has won an order worth Rs 270 million (27 crore) to supply dehydrated onions to Europe in the calendar year 2009.

While commenting on this, Mr. Ashok Jain (Vice chairman, Jain JISL) said, "This is the single largest order for our dehydrated onion and vegetables division. We have developed high-solid onion varieties, which are helping Indian farmers to produce more and in turn allowing us to give what the International market expects."

Eminent economist and Nobel laureate Prof Amartya Sen has asked the
Union government to provide primary health care facilities to people,
particularly those coming from economically weaker sections of society.

Prof Sen said that the policymakers need to be more responsive towards
the common people. He also asked the state government to allocate more
funds for the district hospitals to improve primary health care
facilities.

Apart from this, Prof Sen laid stressed on the need for developing the

After previous close at Rs 160.60, Stayam Computer Services is currently trading Rs 12 up at Rs 172.60 i.e. 7.47% up at BSE on Dec 31 at 12:01 pm.

The stock closed at Rs 160.70 yesterday (Dec 30), but it is currently trading Rs 12.25 up at 172.95 i.e. 7.62% up at NSE on Dec 31 at 12:11 pm.

The stock still has great potential to go up. It is advised to hold the stock.

Portfolio Manager, PN Vijay said reckons that above Rs 205, Satyam can touch Rs 217.

The Congress indicated to the National Conference (NC) leader, Farooq Abdullah, that his son Omar Abdullah is be a better choice for the post of Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir in case of any alliance between the two parties.

As per the sources, Congress party conveyed to Farooq that “it would be better to have a fresh face as Chief Minister of the troubled state”. The party met here, under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi last night, and discussed the post-poll scenario in Kashmir.

Farooq kept changing stand on the NC’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the coalition with the Congress.