Stocks to watch: HCL Tech, Happiest Minds Tech, SBI, Dhanuka Agritech

At 08:43 AM, Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) traded 123 points, or 1.06 per cent lower at 11,489, indicating a negative start for the Indian market on Thursday. 

Here's a list of stocks that may trade actively in today's trading session.

HCL Tech: The company and Google Cloud on Wednesday announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to bring HCL’s Actian portfolio, starting with Actian Avalanche, to Google Cloud.

Happiest Minds Technologies: The stock is set to debut at the bourses today. The initial public offering (IPO) of the IT services firm, which was concluded last week, garnered a massive response from investors as it was subscribed a whopping 151 times. 

Tata Power: The company has submitted bids for three discoms in Odisha. The bids were called earlier this year for Western, Southern, and Northern Electricity Supply Companies, namely WESCO, SOUTHCO and NESCO. READ MORE

SBI, other banks: Indian lenders are keenly watching the outcome of a petition filed by State Bank of India (SBI) in the Supreme Court, which invoked the personal guarantees of Anil Ambani. The SC will hear the petition from Thursday. 

Dr Reddy's: Russia's sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday it will supply India's Dr. Reddy's Laboratories with 100 million doses of the Sputnik-V vaccine against Covid-19 once it receives regulatory approval in India.

Dhanuka Agritech: The company has approved buyback of up to 10,00,000 equity shares at a price of Rs 1,000 apiece for an aggregate amount not exceeding Rs 100 crore. 28 September 2020 has been fixed as the Record Date for the same.

Suven Pharmaceuticals has fixed September 28, 2020 as the record date for the bonus issue of the equity shares of the company in the ratio of 1:1.

Oil-linked stocks: Oil marketing companies (OMCs), paint, and aviation may trade actively today as oil prices jumped over 4 per cent on Wednesday following a drawdown in US crude and gasoline inventories and as Hurricane Sally forced a swath of US offshore production to shut.

Purvankara: The company's board has pre-closed the un-subscribed portion of the Series B unlisted, secured, Non-Convertible Debentures and approved the issue of fully secured, unlisted, redeemable, cumulative, non-convertible Series I Debentures aggregating to Rs 70 crore.