Godrej Properties on Monday said its sales booking rose 56 per cent last fiscal year to an all-time high of Rs 12,232 crore on strong demand for residential properties. In a regulatory filing, Godrej Properties informed that the company achieved its highest ever sales bookings in the fourth quarter as well as the entire 2022-23 financial [...]
HLL Infra Tech Services Ltd (HITES) has reported a 58 per cent jump in net profit to Rs 27.76 crore in 2022-23 compared to Rs 17.6 crore in FY22 on higher revenue from the infrastructure division, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. The total turnover of the central public sector undertaking under the Health Ministry [...]
Sri Lanka's Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe has expressed confidence that the crisis-struck country could finalise debt restructuring negotiations with bilateral and commercial creditors before the first review of the IMF, a media report said on Thursday. Sri Lanka received USD 333 million dollars, the first tranche of the USD 3 billion International Monetary Fund [...]
Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed higher on Thursday, extending the winning streak to the fifth straight session after the RBI unexpectedly kept policy rates unchanged as global banking woes added uncertainty to the economic outlook. Buying in index majors HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries also added to the optimism in the equity market. Bouncing [...]
Demand trajectory across urban and rural markets in India has shown a "slight improvement" sequentially in the March quarter, although it falls short of a full recover, FMCG major Dabur said. Despite near-term consumption pressure, some "green shoots" are emerging such as moderating inflation, improving consumer confidence and increase in government spending. "While urban markets [...]
Refractory player RHI Magnesita India has raised Rs 900 crore through qualified institutions placement, according to a company's top official. "We are pleased to announce a successful qualified institutional placement (QIP). This transaction demonstrates the support of high quality international and domestic institutional investors in the business and financial model of our company," the company's [...]
The RBI decision to keep repo rate unchanged comes as a welcome respite for homebuyers and will boost housing demand especially for affordable and mid-income category, according to property developers and consultants. After raising the interest rate by a cumulative 250 basis points in 11 months, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday unexpectedly [...]
Cash-strapped Pakistan has received the nod for funding of up to USD 2 billion from Saudi Arabia, a move that will help the country secure the much-required bailout from the IMF, according to a media report on Thursday. The International Monetary Fund has imposed the condition on Pakistan that it should secure USD 3 billion [...]
Vibrant Energy has tied up over Rs 2,200 crore of project financing from state-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) to build 300 MWac wind-solar hybrid projects in Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka. Vibrant Energy (Vibrant), which develops corporate renewable energy solutions, in a statement said that the financing will stand out as one of the largest project [...]
The Reserve Bank on Thursday marginally cut retail inflation projection to 5.2 per cent in the current fiscal, but flagged adverse climatic conditions and rising uncertainty in international financial markets as future risks. Although the expectation of a record Rabi harvest bodes well for easing of food price pressures, milk prices are likely to remain [...]
