Meghalaya Tourism today announced that the Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Conrad K Sangma and Ambassador of Japan to India, H. E. Satoshi Suzuki, recently inaugurated the 5th edition of the Shillong Cherry Blossom Festival 2021 and the 1st edition of the Shillong Literature Festival at Wards Lake & Polo Ground in Meghalaya. The festival coincides [...]
The Kolkata Port has registered a 15 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 120 crore during 2021-22 amid a slowdown in cargo movement due to Covid related disruptions, an official said on Monday. In 2020-21, the riverine Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port, which was earlier known as Kolkata Port Trust, had posted Rs 104 [...]
An entity on Thursday offloaded shares of Piramal Enterprises for Rs 575 crore through open market transactions. According to the block deal data available with the BSE, SmallCap World Fund Inc sold a total of 61,09,068 shares of Piramal Enterprises 17 tranches. The shares were disposed at an average price of Rs 941.15 apiece, taking [...]
Amara Raja Electronics Ltd on Thursday said it has acquired a stake in engineering design firm Design Alpha. The acquisition will position Amara Raja Electronics Ltd AREL as a fully integrated electronic systems design and manufacturing (ESDM) company, unlocking numerous opportunities in the electronics manufacturing business, the company said in a statement without disclosing the [...]
Billionaire Gautam Adani-led group's renewable energy firm on Thursday announced plans to raise Rs 12,300 crore through a share sale to investors as the group continues to build on a comeback strategy to emerge out of allegations of fraud levelled by a US short-seller. Adani Green Energy Ltd in a stock exchange filing said its [...]
JSW Steel is aiming to nearly double its capacity to 50 million tonnes in the next three years, chairman Sajjan Jindal said on Thursday. The city-headquartered company is also aiming to shift to renewable sources of power to fire the entire 50 million tonnes of production, Jindal said speaking at an event organized by the [...]
Tata Steel on Thursday its consolidated production declined to 7.08 million tonnes (MT) in the first quarter of FY24. The company's consolidated production was at 7.67 MT during April-June of the preceding financial year, Tata Steel said in a statement. Consolidated deliveries however rose 7.97 pc to 7.04 MT from 6.52 MT in the same [...]
Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty traded flat in early trade on Friday due to profit-taking in financials and IT shares amid weak global cues. The 30-share BSE Sensex opened lower and fell further by 294 points to hit a low of 65,785.64 in early trade. The BSE barometer was trading at 65,767.85, down by [...]
The Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), Chennai, has committed to invest Rs 54,000 crore in various projects in Tamil Nadu in the next few years, including a 9 MMTPA (million metric tonnes per annum) grass-root refinery at an estimated cost of Rs 35,580 crore, its executive director and state head (TN & Puducherry) V C [...]
State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Thursday announced the launch of a virtual branch, PNB Metaverse. It is a virtual branch of the bank, which will deliver a unique experience of banking to existing and new customers who can now explore the bank’s products and services such as bank deposits, retail/MSME loans, digital products, women/senior [...]