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After shock of bridge’s inexplicable fall at evening rush hour into the country’s largest river, bridge experts offer reassurance – The same federally assigned inspections that show one-quarter of U.S. bridges to be “structurally deficient” or “functionally obsolete,” they are in very little danger of collapsing.

This is what the same experts would have said about the Interstate 35W Bridge in Minneapolis before it collapsed down Wednesday.

The 30-share index having maintained its impulse in the former session as it carries on to trade in the constructive terrain. Select stocks from cement, pharma, banking, auto and telecom led the advancements.

The BSE Sensex is trading strong at 15,193.66, up 207.96 points. NSE Nifty is ruling at 4,423.70, up 67.35 points (11.15 a.m).

Technical Analyst, Vishwas Agarwal suggested that the support of 4,286 for the NSE and 14,668 for the BSE are key levels to watch.

He also added that if the stock market falls below these levels, then we can think that a top has been formed for the next six months and the market will trade between 3,900 to 4,600.

Washington: The Bush administration said structural deficiencies were found two years ago in highway bridge that crashed in Minneapolis and it was the state’s responsibility to fix them. Congress started working on a $250 million package of federal assistance.

After recording a growth of 18% in crude steel production in July 2007 over July 2006, JSW Steel was trading up 0.79% to Rs 699.30.

In the meantime, the BSE Sensex was up 221 points to 15,207 chasing recovery in Asian stocks. Asian stocks arose today after a second consecutive session of gains on Wall Street on Thursday, 2 August 2007.

Sachin Chandsarkar, senior dealer, Karvy Stock Broking, said that today stock market rested explosive because of short covering. NSE Nifty arose 50 points to 4,425, where nonstop selling pressure took place. Major performers comprise Titan Industries, Suzlon and Voltas.

Nifty based stocks saw less interest from dealers. There was no effort envisioned in stocks of Reliance Group. Because of good dispatch numbers by cement companies, buying was seen in ACC and Gujarat Ambuja.

State Bank of India jumped 2.87% to Rs 1592.75 on reports that it is planning to make a holding company for its mutual funds and life insurance business.

About 11.24 lakh shares of the scrip were traded on the BSE counter. The scrip showed an average daily volume of 5.97 lakh shares within the last three months.