About 20 minutes into trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1 percent at 33,034.24.

The fund house, though, said the conundrum of rising commodity prices, rising inflation and thereby tight monetary policy might keep volatility intact in equities for some time.

The project’s scope includes design, engineering and supply, installation, pre-commissioning, commissioning and start-up of the plant and is to be completed in 15 months. The project will employ softening, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis technologies to treat brine water which will be reused as process water in the facility.

Vedanta Limited is a globally diversified natural resources company with interests in zinc, lead, silver, iron ore, steel, copper, aluminium, power, oil and gas.

In other words, it would be imperative for the markets to open and stay above the 16,500 levels. Any slip below this point is likely to invite incremental weakness.

In the international market, both gold and silver traded flat at USD 1,836.44 per ounce and USD 21.62 per ounce, respectively.

The bond was opened on May 23, 2022, but will close eight days before the last date of June 10 as the base issue has been oversubscribed

In its probe, Sebi found that the scheme was designed to create an impression of receiving funds through GDR subscription. The total issue size was around 35,37,505 GDRs, through which capital amounting to USD 36.96 million was raised.

"Rupee continued to trade in a narrow range and volatility remained low despite marginal weakness in domestic and global equities," said Gaurang Somaiya, Forex & Bullion Analyst, Motilal Oswal Financial Services.

"Taking that into account, Nifty50 can be expected to trade positive in the next session. In that scenario, the index can initially head to test its 200-day EMA, placed around 16,740 levels.