Closing Bell: Nifty ends at 11,750, Sensex falls 135 points; Reliance Industries gains 3%

After hitting record highs in the morning trade, the benchmark indices gave all the gains and remained under pressure for rest of the day on the last trading day of the week as Nifty ended at 11,752 level.

At close, the Sensex was down 135.36 points at 39140.28, while Nifty was down 34.40 points at 11752.80. About 872 shares have advanced, 1662 shares declined, and 163 shares are unchanged.

Market will remain shut of Friday (April 19) on account of Good Friday.

Yes Bank, Indiabulls Housing, Hindalco Industries, Vedanta and Zee Entertainment were among major losers on the indices, while gainers include Reliance Industries, JSW Steel, Tata Motors, BPCL and Wipro.

Among the sectors, except energy all other sectoral indices ended in red led by PSU bank, infra, metal, FMCG and auto.

Patel Integrated Logistics approved the sale and transfer of company's surface transport business carried on in a division called Patel Roadways on a going concern basis by way of slump sale to Innovative Logistics Service, wholly owned subsidiary of Stellar Value Chain Solutions.

Reliance Jio added 77.9 lakh users against addition of 93.2 lakh users in January 2019. However, Bharti Airtel loses 49,896 users against addition of 1.03 lakh users and Vodafone Idea loses 57.9 lakh users versus loss of 35.9 lakh users in the same period, according to CNBC-TV18.

The board of directors of the company recommended a dividend of Re 1 per equity share of Rs 10 each (i.e. 10%) for the year ended March 31, 2019.

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:has registered 50 percent jump in its Q4 net profit to Rs 96.3 crore on the back of better asset quality.

The company had reported profit of Rs 64.21 crore in the same quarter last fiscal.

Its gross NPA was at 1.84 percent against 1.92 percent, while net NPA was at 0.65 percent against 0.71 percent, QoQ.

:Shares of Star Cement rose 6.7 percent after company received Rs 174.48 crore towards its freight subsidy claims from the Central Government.

Jubilant Life Sciences has issued commercial papers of Rs 100 crore with a tenure of 68 days, maturity on 25.06.2019.

has informed that the Board of Directors recommended a final dividend of Rs 2.70 per equity share. The bank's Q4 net profit has jumped 39 percent at Rs 247cr. However, the stock is trading one percent lower.