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Power Grid Corporation board okays raising Rs 600 crore via bonds

Power Grid Corporation board okays raising Rs 600 crore via bonds

State-owned Power Grid Corporation's board has approved rasing up to Rs 600 crore through bonds to be issued on private placement basis. "Committee of directors for bonds, in their meeting held today i.e. on 24th March, 2023, have approved the raising of unsecured, non-convertible, non-cumulative, redeemable, taxable POWERGRID Bonds-LXXII (72nd) issue 2022-23 on private placement [...]
Maruti Suzuki targets sales via Nexa outlets to overtake volumes of Hyundai, Tata Motors by next year

Maruti Suzuki targets sales via Nexa outlets to overtake volumes of Hyundai, Tata Motors by next year

Maruti Suzuki India is targeting for its premium vehicles sold through the Nexa retail outlets to be more than the respective overall sales of Hyundai and Tata Motors by next year, according to Senior Executive Officer, Marketing and Sales, Shashank Srivastava. The Nexa retail chain, started in 2015 to sell Maruti Suzuki's premium vehicles, has [...]
Airtel pips Jio in 5G roll-out, reaches 500 cities

Airtel pips Jio in 5G roll-out, reaches 500 cities

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel overtook Reliance Jio in 5G roll-out with the expansion of the network to additional 235 cities, taking its total reach to 500 cities. Reliance Jio has so far announced the expansion of the ultra high-speed fifth generation (5G) network to 406 cities. "Bharti Airtel...ultra-fast 5G service is available to customers in [...]
Zen Technologies bags Rs 127 crore order from armed forces

Zen Technologies bags Rs 127 crore order from armed forces

Defence training solutions firm Zen Technologies on Friday said it has bagged Rs 127 crore order from armed forces. After setbacks faced in 2012 due to cancellation of large tenders, Zen said in a regulatory filing that it had stopped participating in large tenders and has now made a complete turnaround over the last 10 [...]
Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan’s new role: To work as barista in stores every month

Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan’s new role: To work as barista in stores every month

Starbucks' new Indian-origin CEO Laxman Narasimhan has said he will work as a barista once a month in stores to stay close to the company's culture, customers, challenges and opportunities. Narasimhan, 55, officially became the Seattle-based coffee giant's chief executive on Monday, taking the reins from Howard Schultz about two weeks earlier than scheduled. In [...]
FSIB selects new LIC Chairman; Siddhartha Mohanty to head

FSIB selects new LIC Chairman; Siddhartha Mohanty to head

The Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB), the headhunter for directors of state-owned banks and financial institutions, on Thursday selected Siddhartha Mohanty to head insurance behemoth LIC. As per the guidelines, the chairman is selected from the four managing directors of the company. After interviewing four candidates based on their overall experience and extant parameters on [...]
Rithwik Projects to build 382 MW Sunni Dam Hydro Project of SJVN

Rithwik Projects to build 382 MW Sunni Dam Hydro Project of SJVN

Rithwik Projects will build 382 MW Sunni Dam hydro power project for Rs 1,098 crore for state-run SJVN Ltd. SJVN on Thursday signed the Contract Agreement for engineering, procurement and construction of civil and hydro-mechanical works of 382 MW Sunni Dam Hydro Electric Project, a SJVN statement said. The Letter of Award for Civil & [...]
Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar picks 98% stake in Phenil Sugar

Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar picks 98% stake in Phenil Sugar

Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd on Thursday said it has acquired a 98 per cent stake in Phenil Sugars by converting existing preference shares worth Rs 350 crore into equity shares. The company has converted 3,50,03,927 redeemable non-cumulative convertible preference shares of Rs 100 amounting to Rs 350.04 crore into equity shares of 35,00,39,270 equity shares [...]