Equity benchmarks ended with marginal gains on Tuesday as investors adopted a cautious approach ahead of the Union Budget presentation and the US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision. Fag-end buying helped the 30-share BSE benchmark Sensex settle with a gain of 49.49 points or 0.08 per cent at 59,549.90. During the day, the benchmark hit [...]
India's sugar production is estimated to fall 5 per cent during 2022-23 marketing year ending September to 340 lakh tonnes as more quantity of sugarcane juice is being diverted for production of ethanol, according to industry body ISMA. Sugar production stood at 358 lakh tonnes in the 2021-22 marketing year (October-September). In a statement, Indian [...]
The gross tax revenues have touched 65 per cent of the Budget estimates at Rs 17.81 lakh crore during the first eight months of the current fiscal till November, propelled by corporate and personal income tax mop-up, according to the Economic Survey 2022-23 presented in Parliament on Tuesday. The survey, authored by Chief Economic Advisor [...]
Debt ridden telecom operator, Vodafone Idea’s shares gained 6.87% in the past two days and were trading at ₹ 7.00 apiece at 02:42 PM on Tuesday, ahead of its board meeting to consider the preferential issue of optionally convertible debentures (OCDs) to ATC Telecom Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. In addition, the board will arrange an Extraordinary [...]
IndiaMART, one of the largest Indian e-commerce websites, along with four physical marketplaces in Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata and Mumbai have figured in the latest annual edition of the Notorious Markets List of the US. Released by the US Trade Representative (USTR) on Tuesday, the 2022 Notorious Markets List identifies 39 online and 33 physical markets [...]
The Rs 20,000 crore share sale of Adani group's flagship firm was fully subscribed on Tuesday after non-retail investors bid in big volumes, according to stock exchange data. As many as 4.62 crore shares were sought as against an offer of 4.55 crore. Non-institutional investors put in bids for over three times the 96.16 lakh [...]
Talent development corporation NIIT Ltd on Tuesday posted almost flat consolidated net profit at Rs 55 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2022 mainly on account of acquisitions that the company made in the US. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 54.9 crore in the same period a year ago. [...]
India's overall gold demand remained resilient and witnessed a marginal decline of 2.92 per cent in 2022 at 774 tonnes notwithstanding a sharp increase in prices, and the outlook for this year looks bullish, the World Gold Council (WGC) said in a report on Tuesday. The overall gold demand in 2021 stood at 797.3 tonnes, [...]
Foreign direct investment into the country is expected to rebound in the coming months on account of India's high economic growth, and steps to further improve the business environment of India, the Economic Survey said on Tuesday. The rise in global uncertainty in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, FDI equity inflows in the manufacturing [...]
The shares of Maharatna PSU, REC Limited, opened at Rs 116.15 levels and gained as much as 5 percent to trade at Rs 121.15 levels on Tuesday. The scrip gained after the company reported its quarterly results and announced an interim dividend. In Q3FY23, their total income stood at Rs 9,795.24 Crore which declined by [...]
