PERISCOPE

Twelve stocks are moving from mid-cap to small-cap, reveals an analysis by analyst Brian Freitas of Periscope Analytics

The live-streaming Twitter app Periscope on Thursday bid a final goodbye after a six years of existence and popularising live streaming from smartphones.

With an eye on the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has convened a meeting of its 14 chief ministers and several deputy chief ministers in Delhi on Wednesday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday will take a delegation to the Swiss ski resort of Davos to attend and address the World Economic Forum meet

Vikramaditya Singh, senior leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Jammu and Kashmir announced his resignation from the outfit

BJP President Amit Shah's efforts to expand the party continue

In other news, SC will decide Advani's fate this week and the Indus Water Treaty will be discussed

The last phase of UP polls is on Mar 8 and results for five state polls will be declared on Mar 11

Congress' stronghold Amethi will go on poll on Monday

Elections to the legislative Assembly of Punjab and Goa are due on Saturday

In other news, Rahul Gandhi cancelled his China visit

According to govt plans, the Budget session of the Parliament will begin from February 1

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in Varanasi on Thursday to address party workers

Search for Delhi's next Lt Governor and President to visit Hyderabad

Parliament will meet for the winter session from Wednesday

The US will vote to decide who will be the next President on Tuesday

Last year, the government had decided to observe Sardar Patel Jayanti Day as 'Ekta Diwas'

FM Arun Jaitley and, possibly, RBI Governor Urjit Patel will head out to annual meeting of World Bank and IMF in Washington DC from October 7-9

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will address the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. She will not merely rebut every point made by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (who, in his speech on September 21, strongly criticised India for its conduct in Kashmir) but will assert that no human rights violations have taken place in Kashmir, which is part of India by democratic choice, having participated in every Lok Sabha election since 1947.Swaraj - who might speak in Hindi - will have to traverse a difficult path. Without internationalising Kashmir, she will have to highlight Pakistan's hypocrisy when it talks of India's human rights record and call upon the world to back India's position on Kashmir. She will also tell world leaders that it is Pakistan, via its dubious role in fomenting Islamic radicalism in Afghanistan and Bangladesh, that should be held accountable by the world community, even as the country grumbles about having to suffer a refugee influx from Afghanistan

Nepal's Deputy Prime Minister Bimalendra Nidhi, who was on a visit to India as Prachanda's special envoy, had discussed the visit with Indian