Indian equities moved up in the positive terrain for a short while and soon slipped into the negative to trade on a flat note.

Some buying and selling is witnessed in bluechip stocks. Banking, PSU, power and banking stocks saw buying interest, whereas IT and auto stocks went down.

BSE Midcap and Smallcap index gained more than 1% each.

Today, Indian stock market opened with a loss of 33.11 points, at 10,304.57 as compared to the previous day session in which it gained 549.62 points.

Sunday was the lucky day for West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Union Steel Minister Ram Vilas Pawan. They narrowly escaped a powerful explosion on their way to Kalaichandi in Paschim Medinipur district. Police raised fingers on Maoists for the explosion.

Both leaders were returning from Salboni to Kolkata. They were in the town to attend foundation laying function of a mega steel plant established by Jindal Steel.

Researchers have found that patients with fibromyalgia have characteristic changes in the brain, which don’t show up on images and scans of muscles and bones, can be seen in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) scans. Patients suffering from fibromyalgia have often been dubbed hypochondriacs and left to deal with the pain characteristic of the disease.

Now, BSNL customers can avail lower ISD call rates for the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) countries. The state-run telecom company slashed call rates by 15-35 percent on Sunday. The decision would cover landline as well as mobile customers.

The call rates for Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Bhutan would be Rs.9 per minute instead of the existing Rs.10 under post-paid plan of Rs 725.

Call charges for BSNL fixed line users would now be Rs.9.60 per minute for a 7.5 second pulse.

Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh would hold a meeting with the industry leaders and associates on Monday. The meeting is aimed to review the impact of global financial crisis on Indian economy and prepare India's stance at forthcoming G20 Summit.