The government's ambitious green hydrogen policy has taken off - the power ministry notified the policy today as part of the government's larger vision of cutting India's dependence on fossil fuels and promote usage of cleaner forms of energy. Watch CNBC-TV18's Sonal Bhutra explain how the policy will work.

Kotak Institutional Equities has put out a note on Indian markets. Sanjeev Prasad of Kotak Equities has written that the risk-reward is not favourable to Indian markets for a few reasons. One, the rise in global as well as domestic yield that is not positive for Indian equity. Rising crude prices are also not good for the Indian economy and for Indian markets and thirdly, the increased geopolitical risk is clearly a negative for overall equity markets and for the Indian markets as well.

At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 74.94 against the American dollar but later dropped to a low of 75.18 against the greenback. The local unit was quoted at 75.11 at close, down 7 paise from the previous close.

The pandemic and the ensuing disruption forced people to stay at home and depend on devices like laptops and tablets for work from home, online education and content consumption. According to data from CMR Research, the tablet industry shipments have grown by 4 percent in 2021 on back of 6 percent growth in 2020.