The listed-companies table on the Business Standard website, updated around four days before 3 November 2026, pairs each company's BSE Ltd, formerly the Bombay Stock Exchange, is a Mumbai based electronic exchange where shares and other securities are traded under SEBI oversight. Read the full meaning of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) code with its NSE symbol. Many investors use such a table to find out whether a company listed or not, and a few rows in it show a BSE code with no NSE symbol against the name.
Such rows show that a company can be listed on the BSE alone. Listing is therefore not one single status, as it is a membership of each exchange separately.
For the investors which search for a company on the NSE and do not find it, the absence from that list does not mean the company is unlisted. The company may still be trading on the BSE, and the reverse can also happen.
What the exchange lists show
The NSE publishes downloadable lists on its all-reports page, and these are the files that investors can use to check the membership of a company on that exchange. One file is a security file for the securities listed on the NSE. A separate file covers the NSE listed securities together with the securities that are exclusive to the BSE.
Alongside this, the page also offers an approved list of securities as a zip download.
The NSE page was indexed around 78 days before 3 November 2026 and the dates of the individual files are not shown on it. An investor who opens any of these files will therefore not know from the page itself how recent the list is.
Why the status matters
In 2017, the NSE had begun verifying suspected shell companies after the SEBI is the statutory regulator of India's securities market, with the legal duty to protect investors and to promote and regulate that market. Read the full meaning of SEBI imposed trade restrictions on them. Of these 331 companies, only 48 were listed on the NSE, as Business Standard reported on 9 August 2017.
Under the graded surveillance measure (Surveillance frameworks of SEBI and the exchanges that place staged trading curbs on shares with unusual trading or prices not backed by fundamentals. Read the full meaning of ASM and GSM Framework) framework, the SEBI directive of that year placed the flagged securities in Stage VI. Trading in such securities was allowed only once a month, on a trade-to-trade basis.
A listed entity must also make disclosures and meet its obligations under the SEBI Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements Regulations, 2015, which were last amended on 14 October 2026.
