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Domestic wholesales of passenger vehicles grew 4.7 per cent in March at 2,92,030 units as compared to the same month last year, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said on Thursday. In March last year, wholesales of passenger vehicles were at 2,79,525 units. Two-wheeler sales clocked 12,90,553 units in the domestic market last month, as compared to [...]

Chemicals maker Anupam Rasayan India Ltd on Thursday said it has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) worth USD 182 million (Rs 1,500 crore) with one of the leading Japanese multinational to manufacture and supply three high value speciality chemicals. This product will be manufactured in our existing manufacturing facilities. "We are proud to announce [...]

Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) will more than double its rail making capacity to 2.2 million tonnes by setting a rail mill at Angul, in Odisha with an annual capacity of 1.2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA). The steel maker owns and operates 1 MTPA rail mill at its Raigarh unit, in Chhattisgarh, where [...]

State-owned power giant NTPC on Wednesday said it has decided to raise Rs 3,000 crore by issuing non-convertible debentures on a private placement basis. "NTPC has decided to issue unsecured non-convertible debentures of Rs 3,000 crore on April 17, 2023, through a private placement at a coupon of 7.35 per cent per annum for a [...]

Lenders of debt-ridden Future Retail Ltd (FRL) has sought an extension of 90 days for concluding the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of the company. The resolution professional of FRL has filed an application before the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) "seeking exclusion of a period of 90 days from CIRP [...]

Government head hunter PESB has recommended the appointment of Amrendu Prakash as Chairman, Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL). Prakash is the Director in-charge of the steel maker's Bokaro Steel Plant located in Jharkhand. PESB recommended Amrendu Prakash for the post of SAIL Chairman, the Public Enterprises Selection Board said in a notification on Wednesday. [...]

Sebi on Wednesday imposed fines totalling Rs 25 lakh on five entities for indulging in non-genuine trades in the illiquid stock options segment on BSE. In five separate orders, the watchdog levied a fine of Rs 5 lakh each on Natraj Dealtrade, Queen Tie-Up Pvt Ltd, Octagon Merchants, Noble Tradelink and Nirmal Kumar Chopra HUF. [...]

Torrent Power on Wednesday said it has bagged a contract to supply 920 MW gas based electricity from its DGEN and SUGEN plants under a tender of NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigal Ltd (NVVN). The ministry of power had designated NVVN as the nodal agency for procurement of up to 4,000 MW power from gas-based plants [...]

In a major step to strengthen cooperatives, the government on Wednesday said existing Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) having wholesale petrol and diesel dealership licence will be given a one-time option to covert their bulk consumer pumps into retail outlets. The cooperation ministry, in a statement, said PACS will also be given priority in allotment [...]

Reserve Bank of India has approved re-appointment of Sanjay Agarwal as managing director and CEO of AU Small Finance Bank for a period of three years. The re-appointment is valid with effect from April 19 till April 18, 2026, AU Small Finance Bank said in a statement. Besides, it said, the regulator has also cleared [...]

HDFC Ltd on Wednesday said that the market regulator Sebi has cleared a proposal for change in control of HDFC Capital Advisors Limited (HCAL). Sebi vide its letter dated April 10, 2023 to HCAL, a subsidiary of HDFC Limited and a co-investment portfolio manager, has granted its approval for the proposed change in control of [...]

A special Mumbai court, while granting bail to Yes Bank co-promoter Rana Kapoor in a money laundering case, held that the alleged “laundered" amount never came to him” and there was nothing to show he received kickbacks. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court also noted that even though economics offences are “different in [...]

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has started the process to set up an infrastructure investment trust (InvIT), under which the group can monetise the backend warehousing and logistics assets of its retail business, said industry sources. Reliance Retail, the company which operates the retail business of the billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, has already registered a [...]

Four companies, including Larsen & Toubro, have submitted bids for design and construction of civil and building works of 135-km-long alignment between Shilphata and Zaroli under package C-3 of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail line, the firm overseeing the bullet train project said on Wednesday. In a statement, National High Speed Railway Corporation Ltd (NHSRCL) [...]

Reliance Jio has slammed Bharti Airtel for filing a complaint with telecom regulator over live TV channels offering with JioFiber, saying the rival company's sole grouse was the reasonable tariffs of JioFiber. Jio dubbed charges made by Airtel as "deliberate malicious attempt to defame" RJIL's consumer-friendly tariffs to protect "narrow interests". Jio in a letter [...]

Brokerage house Zerodha on Wednesday said it has formed a joint venture with Amazon-backed wealth management firm smallcase to build an asset management company. The capital markets regulator Sebi's approval has already been received for setting up the joint venture. "While awaiting the final approval of our AMC (mutual fund), we asked if we should [...]

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday unveiled a new logo on the occasion of its 35th foundation day. The logo was unveiled in the presence of former Chairmen, former and present Whole Time Members of the regulator, Sebi said in a statement. The watchdog continues to believe in and follow its rich tradition of consultation [...]

Auto parts supplier Modern Automotives on Wednesday said it has bagged a supply contract for 2.5 million units of differential pinion shafts for electric powertrain worth Rs 150 crore from German premier carmaker BMW. The order, which is to be completed by 2034, would give a huge push to the company's ambition of becoming part [...]

State-owned Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd (SECI) has got the status of Miniratna Category-I Central Public Sector Enterprise (CPSE). A communication to this effect has been issued by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, a ministry statement said on Wednesday. The SECI has been accorded the status of Miniratna Category-I Central Public Sector [...]

US-based Honeywell has set up a sustainability centre of excellence in Madurai which would serve as a hub for support in engineering, innovation and collaboration on sustainability initiatives, the company said on Wednesday. The Centre would accelerate Honeywell's commitment to innovate products and services that help stakeholders reduce emissions as well as achieve its own [...]

Decacorn fintech firm PhonePe has received an additional USD 100 million from General Atlantic during its ongoing fundraise round of USD 1 billion at a pre-money valuation of USD 12 billion, the company said on Wednesday. With this fresh funding, the Walmart group firm has raised USD 750 million till date. "PhonePe confirms a USD [...]

Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawalla on Wednesday said it has restarted manufacturing of COVID-19 vaccine Covishield amid rising numbers of cases of the virus infection. He said the company already has six million booster doses of Covovax vaccine available and adults must take the booster shot. Reacting to reports of COVID-19 vaccines [...]

Canara Bank and NPCI Bharat BillPay Ltd (NBBL) have announced the launch of cross-border inward bill payment services for Indians based in Oman. NRIs can now leverage the robust platform offered by the Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) to make bill payments on behalf of their families through the Musandam Exchange, a statement said on [...]

HDFC Bank on Wednesday announced that it has signed a "Master Inter Bank Credit Agreement" with Export Import Bank of Korea for a USD 300 million line of credit. The pact was signed by the two entities at GIFT City in Gujarat's capital Gandhinagar on Wednesday, said a release by the HDFC Bank. This agreement [...]

S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday said it is expecting a significant fall in rates of metallurgical coal and Indian steel makers are to benefit from the price correction. "We expect lower seaborne met coal prices will help Indian steel mills, as they import 70 per cent of their total requirement," S&P Global Ratings credit analyst [...]

Suzlon Group on Wednesday said it has bagged a project for developing a 50.4 MW wind power project for Sembcorp's renewables subsidiary Green Infra Wind Energy Ltd. As part of the order, Suzlon will install 24 wind turbine generators (WTGs) with a Hybrid Lattice Tubular (HLT) tower and a rated capacity of 2.1 MW each, [...]

Nearly 12,000 matches a year across 12 disciplines, five million requests per second during a fantasy cricket tournament and 150 million users engaging with the platform. It’s about numbers, technology -- and the vision to make sports better, says Dream Sports Chief Technology Officer Amit Sharma. Combining the thrill of live sports and the excitement [...]

Fintech firm BankBazaar.com on Tuesday said it plans to go public in the next 12-18 months. The company had a net revenue of Rs 160 crore in FY23. The Initial Public Offering (IPO) plans are in progress with an aim to list in 12-18 months, co-branded credit card issuer BankBazaar.com said in a statement. Prior [...]

Astec LifeSciences, a subsidiary of Godrej Agrovet (GAVL), on Tuesday launched its Research and Development (R&D) centre in Rabale, Maharashtra. The facility 'Adi Godrej Centre for Chemical Research and Development' will focus on innovation and developing sustainable and safe solutions for people and the environment and providing services to innovator companies in the contract development [...]

A consortium led by state-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has bagged an order worth more than Rs 9,600 crore to supply 80 sleeper class Vande Bharat trains to Indian Railways over a period of six years. There is a demand for running sleeper class Vande Bharat or Train18 trainsets as these can ply on [...]

The country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank on Tuesday said it proposes to raise Rs 50,000 crore from issuance of debt instruments on a private placement mode in the next 12 months. The company's board of directors will consider the proposal at its meeting on April 15. "... we wish to inform you that [...]

Tiger Global Management on Tuesday offloaded shares worth Rs 388 crore of supply chain player Delhivery through an open market transaction. Internet Fund III Pte, a fund managed by US-based private equity firm Tiger Global Management, sold the shares of Delhivery. According to the bulk deal data available with BSE, Internet Fund III Pte offloaded [...]

Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL) on Tuesday said it has incorporated a wholly-owned subsidiary for carrying out coal washery related business. "The company has incorporated a WOS (Wholly-Owned Subsidiary) Pelma Collieries Ltd (PCL) on April 7, with an initial authorised share capital of Rs 10,00,000 and paid-up share capital of Rs 5,00,000," it said in a [...]

The Madhya Pradesh Investment Promotion Committee headed by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday approved a revised proposal of Rs 43,000-crore to Rs 50,000-crore for the expansion of Bina Refinery of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and setting up of a petrochemical project, an official said. The project is expected to provide employment to [...]

Shareholders of NLC India Ltd have approved the appointment of Prasanna Kumar Motupalli as Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of the company. The members of NLC India have passed the ordinary resolution approving his appointment to the top post, the company said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday. NLC India, under the Ministry of Coal, [...]

Bharti Airtel has told regulator Trai that broadcasters are violating the downlinking policy by providing broadcast content to unregistered digital distribution platforms. The telecom player's submission to the watchdog is seen as an apparent reference to Jio TV showing IPL 2023 matches. Bharti Airtel has said the delivery of the same broadcast on broadband through [...]

DBS Bank India on Tuesday said it will enter the affordable home loan segment by the end of this financial year as the lender looks to expand the retail portfolio. The bank is looking to launch the product during the fourth quarter, DBS Bank India Executive Director (Head-National Distribution) Bharath Mani said here. "We are [...]

BSES discoms BRPL and BYPL have facilitated the installation of around 2300 charging points in Delhi for electric vehicles (EVs) and are in the process to set up 900 more in the coming months, company's officials said on Tuesday. The 2300 charging points installed at over 900 locations across south, east, central and west Delhi [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Japanese lender JICA has teamed up with Citibank to provide a USD 125 million funding line to domestic private sector lender Indusind Bank. Indusind will be utilising the co-finance funding for onlending to the agricultural sector in the country, as per an official statement issued on Tuesday. The funding includes a JPY 13 billion (approx [...]

Homegrown Jakson Green on Tuesday said it has bagged renewable energy projects totaling 1 GW of capacity in the domestic as well as international markets. The projects are to be set up through engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) mode for the customers in India, Africa and Middle East regions, Jakson Green said in a statement. [...]

German automaker Audi on Tuesday said it will increase the price of Q3 and Q3 Sportback by up to 1.6 per cent with effect from May 1, in order to offset the impact of increase in customs duty and input costs. The company has already increased the price of Q8 Celebration, RS5 and S5 by [...]

Air India on Monday said it has completed modernisation of its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that will bring improvements in various functions. According to a release, the airline has completed its ERP modernisation programme ahead of schedule by migrating from an on-premise legacy mainframe system to SAP Cloud, laying a strong foundation for its [...]

Frigidaire, a US-based consumer electronics manufacturer, has entered the Indian market in partnership with Ossify, a homegrown consumer electronics brand. Part of Electrolux group, Frigidaire has ventured into the Indian market with its range of home appliances in segments such as air conditioners, washing machines, refrigerators, freezers, etc. Frigidaire, an over 100 years old company, [...]

State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank on Monday announced the opening of 25 new branches across the country. With the opening of the new branches, the bank has now a total of 1,553 branches pan-India, Punjab & Sind Bank said in a statement. Considering the geographical spread, these 25 branches were inaugurated virtually from the bank's [...]

L&T Mutual Fund ceases to exist as a mutual fund, capital markets regulator Sebi said on Monday. This comes after L&T Mutual Fund Trustee Ltd had informed Sebi that it wanted to surrender the registration granted to L&T Mutual Fund (L&T MF) by the markets regulator pursuant to the approval of change in control of [...]

Drug major Cipla on Monday said it has inked a licensing pact with Novartis Pharma AG to manufacture and market Galvus range, used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes, from January 1, 2026. The Mumbai-based company has signed a perpetual license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG (Switzerland) to manufacture and market Galvus and Galvus [...]

Bajaj Finserv Mutual Fund, which received Sebi's clearance to begin the mutual fund operations last month, has filed draft documents with the markets regulator for launching seven schemes in equity, debt and hybrid spaces. The newest player has filed papers to launch mutual fund schemes -- liquid fund, money market fund, overnight fund, arbitrage fund, [...]

Cold chain solutions provider Celcius Logistics has raised Rs 100 crore in a funding round led by IvyCap Ventures, the company said on Monday. The startup had earlier raised Rs 35 crore from existing investors Mumbai Angels, Supply Chain Labs, Endurance Capital, VCats, Huddle, Eaglewings Ventures (EVAN), and others. The company aims to utilize the [...]

India's largest hospitality company Indian Hotels Company Ltd on Monday said it is well poised to achieve its vision of 300 hotels by 2025, from the current portfolio of 260 hotels. Indian Hotels Company Ltd (IHCL) said it accelerated portfolio expansion in FY 2022-23 which ended in March, with the signing of 36 new hotels [...]

Billionaire Gautam Adani's group on Monday listed out details of the USD 2.87 billion stake sales in group firms since 2019 and how USD 2.55 billion of this was ploughed back into business, as it looked to counter Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's claim of Rs 20,000 crore coming in to the conglomerate through 'shell companies'. [...]

Bajaj Auto Ltd and British bike maker Triumph Motorcycles on Monday said they have completed transfer of the latter's India sales and marketing operations to the Indian firm. The two companies would also be launching a jointly developed mid-sized range of bikes later this year. The development is part of the strategic partnership between the [...]

Multilateral funding agency ADB on Monday said it proposes to subscribe non-convertible debentures worth Rs 150 crore of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd (TPDDL), to enhance Delhi’s power distribution through grid enhancements. Besides, Asian Development Bank (ADB) agreed to provide USD 2 million grant to partially finance the purchase and integration of a pilot battery [...]

Managed service provider The Executive Centre clocked a 24 per cent annual growth in revenue at USD 45 million during the last calendar year on rising demand for flexible workspace. Hong Kong-based The Executive Centre (TEC) entered India in 2008 with its first property in Mumbai. It currently has 40 centres, comprising about 15,000 desks [...]

In a move to strengthen its position as a leading player in the Asian food space, Speciality Restaurants Ltd is looking to clock a revenue of Rs 1,000 crore with technology intervention and brand refresh, a company official said on Monday. The multi-brand restaurant chain's standalone net profit in the first half of (April-September) FY'23 [...]

State-owned steel maker RINL is aiming to produce 55,000 wheels in the current financial year to meet the demand from Indian Railways, its CMD Atul Bhatt said. Visakhapatnam-based Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) has set up a forged wheel plant at Lalganj, in Uttar Pradesh at an estimated cost of Rs 2,350-crore with a capacity [...]

Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group's business-to-business e-Commerce arm on Monday announced a Rs 205 crore fund raise from Japan's Mitsui & Co. The Series A funding, which is also the maiden capital raise from an institutional investor by JSW One Platforms, has been done at a valuation of Rs 2,750 crore, as per an official statement. [...]

Singapore-based investment firm Temasek will acquire an additional 41 per cent stake in Manipal Health Enterprises, to take majority control of the Bengaluru-based firm, as per a joint statement issued by the entities on Monday. The companies did not share financial details of the deal. Sources, however, said Temasek stake buyout would be for over [...]

The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India aims to more than double its SUV sales this year and take the leadership position in the fast-growing segment with a market share of over 25 per cent, according to a senior company official. The auto major sold 2.02 lakh sports utility vehicles (SUVs) last financial year [...]

GAIL Gas Ltd, the city gas arm of the nation's largest gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd, on Sunday announced a reduction of up to Rs 7 in the prices of CNG and piped cooking gas following a reduction in input gas price. GAIL Gas cut the price of the gas that households received through piped [...]

Apollo Micro Systems Ltd (AMSL) has fixed May 4 as the record date to split its shares in ratio of 1:10. On March 28, the company's shareholders had approved a proposal for the share division through postal ballot, the company said in a statement. Subsequently, the board also passed the necessary resolution  on April 6, [...]

GCMMF, which sells dairy products under the Amul brand, is expecting 20 per cent growth in its revenue this fiscal to around Rs 66,000 crore on rising demand, its MD Jayen Mehta said. Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) registered a turnover of Rs 55,055 crore in 2022-23, up 18.5 per cent from the [...]

State-owned power giant NTPC on Sunday said its captive coal mines have registered 65 per cent year-on-year production growth to over 23 million tonnes in FY23. NTPC Ltd has recorded a coal production of 23.2 million tonnes in FY23, witnessing a 65 per cent growth against 14.02 million tonnes a year ago from its four [...]

SBI Foundation, the CSR arm of State Bank of India (SBI) on Sunday committed Rs 30 lakh as a grant to 8 ventures who work at the grassroot level to bring change in the lives of rural population. The selection for the grant is done on the basis of projects submitted by fellows of SBI [...]

Adani Power on Sunday said that it has begun supplying electricity from its plant in Godda in Jharkhand to Bangladesh. Adani Power Ltd (APL), a part of the diversified Adani Group, has commissioned the first 800 MW ultra-super-critical thermal power generation unit at Godda in Jharkhand. The plant has started with supplying 748 MW of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

BLS International Services on Wednesday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Thailand to accept electronic visa-on-arrival (EVOA) applications for 17 countries. "This convergence of forces is expected to propel Thailand's tourism inflow steadily, with estimated 75,000-plus applications expected for the upcoming season," the city-based company said in a release. The company [...]

Blue Star aims to corner around 15 per cent share of the residential air conditioner market in terms of value as the cooling products maker expands its product portfolio and distribution network, its Managing Director B Thiagarajan said on Wednesday. The company is witnessing a pick up in the markets of West and South regions [...]

Infosys on Wednesday said it has extended collaboration with data and analytics company LexisNexis to provide information services across their range of content, enterprise and product applications. Infosys will provide LexisNexis end-to-end strategic IT services across multiple business domains that include their global content systems, global business systems and product development, according to a statement. [...]

Yes Bank on Wednesday said it has reported a credit growth of 11.3 per cent at Rs 2.01 lakh crore for the March 2023 quarter. The outstanding credit was Rs 1.81 lakh crore at the end of March 31, 2022, Yes Bank said in a regulatory filing. The lender registered a 12.9 per cent growth [...]

Beauty and fashion firm FSN E-Commerce Ventures, which operates under the Nykaa brand, is expecting over 30 per cent growth in revenue in the just-ended fiscal 2023, the company said on Wednesday. However, it has estimated subdued growth in the fashion business, due to consumers tightening their wallets on discretionary spending. "The Operating parameters for [...]

Digital financial services firm One97 Communications, which operates under the Paytm brand, has recorded 40 per cent growth in gross merchandise value on its platform to Rs 3.62 lakh crore in March 2023 quarter, the company said on Wednesday. The company had recorded a total GMV of Rs 2.59 lakh crore a year ago, Paytm [...]

Leading retailer Reliance Retail has roped in RS Sodhi, the former MD of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd (GCMMF) that markets its products under the Amul brand. Sodhi, a dairy industry veteran, will work with Reliance Retail's fruit and vegetable category of its Grocery division, said an industry source. His presence would help Reliance [...]

Goldman Sachs, which has funded the business and management education of 10,000 women in India, has claimed these beneficiaries have helped create around 12,000 new jobs as well as add Rs 2,800 crore in revenues to the country's economy in the past 18 months. The investment banking major first launched the graduation programme in the [...]

Tata Steel on Wednesday said its consolidated steel production rose by around 3 per cent to 7.77 million tonne during the January-March quarter. The company's total steel output was at 7.55 MT in the year-ago period, Tata Steel said in a regulatory filing. Tata Steel's total sales were 7.59 MT, down 3.43 per cent over [...]

Financial services firm Religare Enterprises on Wednesday said it will acquire Indian Express Group's insurance web aggregator MyInsuranceClub in an all-cash deal. The company said in a statement that it has signed a share purchase agreement for the proposed acquisition of MyInsuranceClub (MIC) from iGear Holdings Private Limited, part of The Indian Express Group. Religare [...]

SunSource Energy on Wednesday announced commissioning of a 9 MW solar project for Varun Beverages, PepsiCo's largest franchise bottler, in Uttar Pradesh. The project commissioned is part of its 45 MW open access solar project in the state, SunSource Energy said in a statement. "SunSource Energy commissions 9 MW DC solar open access project for [...]

Jakson Green has secured an order to set up a methanol synthesis facility at the NTPC's Vindhyachal Thermal Power Plant (VTPP) in Madhya Pradesh. In a statement, Jakson Group said, it will be "world's first methanol production plant in partnership with NTPC Ltd." Group company Jakson Green has won a project from NTPC to establish [...]

Reliance Retail on Wednesday entered into the beauty space with the launch of Tira, an omnichannel beauty retail platform. The country's leading retailer will now compete with the brands like HUL's Lakme, Nykka, Tata and LVMH's Sephora in India's growing beauty and personal care marketplace. Reliance Retail announced the launch of Tira, an omnichannel beauty [...]

State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Wednesday said it has posted a credit growth of 29.59 per cent at Rs 1.75 lakh crore for the March quarter. The outstanding credit was Rs 1.35 lakh crore at the end of March 31, 2022, BoM said in a regulatory filing. The Pune-headquartered lender registered a 21.28 growth [...]

Motilal Oswal Alternatives (MOA) on Wednesday said its investee company IKF Finance has raised Rs 250 crore in a funding round led by Accion's Digital Transformation Fund. The south-based non-bank lender has been operational since the 1990s and focuses on the commercial vehicle, small business and affordable housing segments. MOA had invested in the company [...]

Adar Poonawalla-controlled non-banking finance company Poonawalla Fincorp on Wednesday said its total disbursement grew 151 per cent year-on-year to record Rs 6,370 crore in the March 2023 quarter. Its assets under management (AUM) increased by 37 per cent year-on-year and 16 per cent quarter-on-quarter to about Rs 16,120 crore at March-end 2023, despite a sharp [...]

Fantasy sports segment revenue is expected to grow in the range of 30-35 per cent to Rs 2,900-3,100 crore during the ongoing IPL 2023 cricket tournament season over the last year, market research firm Redseer Strategy Consultants said on Wednesday. The data estimates show 6.5-7 crore users are expected to transact on gaming platforms. Redseer [...]

India Grid Trust on Wednesday said it has commissioned its first battery energy storage system (BESS) project coupled with its solar panels at the Dhule substation in Maharashtra. The project will meet the substation’s auxiliary consumption requirement, a company statement said. It will not only "reduce our emissions but also act as a prototype for [...]

Shares of Cyient on Wednesday jumped 5 per cent in the mid-session trade after the IT company rejigged its top management. The stock of the firm zoomed 5.07 per cent in the mid-session trade at Rs 1,045 apiece on the BSE. During the intra-day trade, the stock touched its 52-week high of Rs 1,049.80 per [...]

Bandhan Bank’s total deposits in the fourth quarter of last fiscal stood at Rs 1,08,069 crore, registering a rise of 12.2 per cent over the same period a year ago, the private lender said. Loans and advances during the quarter ended March 31 was at Rs 1,09,112 crore, reflecting a year-on-year growth of 9.8 per [...]

An employees' association of Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd has requested the government to direct SAIL to submit an expression of interest for the new business model proposed by the steel PSU. Visakhapatnam-based Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) is exploring a business model wherein it will supply finished steel products to companies which will either fund [...]

Disney Star is continuing to sign up advertisers for the ongoing Tata IPL 2023, encouraged by the initial viewership of the T20 league on its television platform amid "unavoidable" competition from JioCinema which has the digital streaming rights, according to a senior company official. The company, which has the linear broadcast rights for Tata IPL, [...]

Three companies -- Cyient DLM, Healthvista India and Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services -- have received Sebi's go- ahead to raise funds through initial public offering (IPO). The three companies, which filed their preliminary IPO papers with the regulator between July 2022 and January 2023, obtained its observation during March 29-31, an update with the Securities and [...]

Smartr Logistics is expecting to raise USD 30 million in Series A funding round by August this year to drive its aggressive expansion plans which include adding pin codes and services offering among others, a top company executive has said. The city-based company is also eying a more-than-two-fold growth in its topline at Rs 200-250 [...]

Amp Energy India on Wednesday said it has bagged 1 GW capacity for integrating cell and module manufacturing under the government's performance-linked incentive (PLI) scheme. Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) is a nodal agency of the central government for auctioning renewable energy projects. In a statement, Amp Energy India said subsidiary company AMPIN [...]