Equity benchmark Sensex climbed over 310 points to reclaim the 60,000 mark on Tuesday, propelled by robust buying in metal, bank and financial stocks amid a firm trend in global equities and continuous foreign capital inflows. Rising for the seventh straight session, the 30-share BSE Sensex rose 311.21 points or 0.52 per cent to finish [...]
A unified portal of the Central Bureau of Narcotics(CBN) will instil efficiency and transparency and reduce the time taken by the pharma industry to get trade licence, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra on Tuesday launched the unified portal of the CBN. CBN is a central government organization dealing with the [...]
Majority of Indian Large-Cap equity mutual funds failed to beat the benchmark, with 88 per cent of actively managed funds underperforming the S&P BSE 100 in 2022, according to new study by S&P Dow Jones Indices released on Tuesday. In the same period, the benchmark for Indian Equity Mid-/Small-Cap funds -- the S&P BSE 400 [...]
A total of 2,838 complaints against companies and market intermediaries were disposed of through Sebi's SCORES platform in March. At the beginning of March, as many as 2,241 complaints were pending and 2,643 fresh complaints were received during the month, the data released by Sebi on Monday showed. The regulator also noted that as of [...]
E-commerce company Flipkart has set up eight supply chain facilities and 200 delivery hubs in Tamil Nadu under its initiative towards creating inclusive job opportunities besides boosting economic growth, the company said on Tuesday. The company has onboarded 15,000 kirana partners under its Kirana Delivery programme, which enables faster customer shipments and also creates an [...]
To bring transparency in expenses and curb mis-selling, markets regulator Sebi has asked alternative investment funds (AIFs) to provide an option of "direct plan" for investors and introduced a trail model for distribution commission. In addition, the regulator came out with guidelines with respect to excluding an investor from an investment of AIF. This came [...]
Delphi-TVS Technologies, a joint venture between diversified conglomerate TVS Group and auto-component major BorgWarner, has lined up investments worth about Rs 450 crore over the next three years to take up capital expansion plan at its manufacturing facility here. Delphi-TVS Technologies, which commenced production of common rail system in 2009 has reached milestone production of [...]
Small businesses focused fintech Ugro Capital on Tuesday said it will raise Rs 340 crore in equity capital through a preferential allotment and qualified institutional placement. The company said its board approved Rs 240 crore worth of shares to IFU (Investeringsfonden for Udviklingslande), a Danish sustainable development goals investment fund, on a preferential allotment basis. [...]
Apple will next week open its first retail store in India, in signs of importance the iPhone manufacturer attaches to the world's fastest growing smartphones market. The company will open its first official store in Mumbai on April 18 and the second in Delhi on April 20. The company at present sells its products in [...]
Beauty and skincare brand VLCC, now controlled by Global investment firm Carlyle, on Tuesday announced the appointment of Vikas Gupta as CEO with immediate effect. The leadership change comes after Carlyle, in December 2022 announced the acquisition of a majority stake in the homegrown firm, a company statement said. Vikas Gupta succeeds Jayant Khosla. Prior [...]
