Top 3 business stories on Sept 29: Flipkart partners with Apple to sell latest iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus and more

1. Flipkart partners with Apple to sell latest iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

E-commerce major Flipkart will make its platform available for US tech giant Apple to sell the latest edition of iPhone on its platform from October 7.

This is the first time that Apple has collaborated with an e-commerce company in India to sell a new iPhone version. "Flipkart will offer iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus... beginning on October 7," Flipkart said in a statement.

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2. ICICI Prudential Life Insurance scrips get listed, makes sluggish start

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance made an unassuming debut at the Indian stock markets after its scrips got listed on both the BSE and NSE earlier on Thursday.

The stock listed at Rs 329, down 1.49 per cent over the issue price, on BSE. At NSE, it debuted at Rs 330, down 1.19 per cent.

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3. Stock Markets record losses post Indian Army’s surgical strikes on militants across LoC

The BSE sensex opened on Thursday at 28,423.14. Sensex plummeted to 465.28 points to end at 27,827.53; Nifty fell 153.90 points to close at 8,591.25

India’s benchmark Sensex Index dipped more than 460 points after India’s director general of military operations Ranbir Singh said that the Indian Army had carried out surgical strikes on terrorist camps across the LoC.

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