{"id":368262,"date":"2020-08-18T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=368262"},"modified":"2020-08-18T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T04:21:24","slug":"indian-shares-end-higher-ntpc-top-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-shares-end-higher-ntpc-top-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian shares end higher, NTPC top boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares settled higher on Monday, led by a surge in state-run power major NTPC Ltd , as Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s assurance on mass production of Covid-19 vaccines and more infrastructure spending by the government boosted investor sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>The NSE Nifty 50 index ended 0.61% higher at 11,247.10, while the S&amp;P BSE Sensex rose 0.46% to 38,050.78.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Along with mass production, the roadmap for distribution of vaccine to every single Indian in the least possible time is also ready,&#8221; Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated plans to improve the country&#8217;s infrastructure by spending more than 110 trillion rupees ($1.47 trillion) on around 7,000 projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian shares settled higher on Monday, led by a surge in state-run power major NTPC Ltd , as Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s assurance on mass production of Covid-19 vaccines and more infrastructure spending by the government boosted investor sentiment. The NSE Nifty 50 index ended 0.61% higher at 11,247.10, while the S&amp;P BSE Sensex rose 0.46% to 38,050.78. &#8220;Along with mass production, the roadmap for distribution of vaccine to every single Indian in the least possible time is also ready,&#8221; Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday. He reiterated plans to improve the country&#8217;s infrastructure by spending more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}