State-owned power giant NTPC's arm NTPC Green Energy Ltd (NGEL) is planning to raise funds through an initial public offering this fiscal, according to a source. NGEL is a fully-owned subsidiary of NTPC. Earlier, it had planned to sell 20 per cent of the NTPC's stake in NGEL to a strategic investor for Rs 3,000 [...]

The Central government will focus on strengthening the Vizag Steel Plant (VSP) for the moment rather than privatising it, Union Minister of State for Steel, Faggan Singh Kulaste said here on Thursday. He made this announcement on the sidelines of handing over appointment letters under Rozgar Mela. "As on date, we don’t have any plan [...]

Air India will start TaxiBot operations for its A320 aircraft fleet at Delhi and Bengaluru airports, a move that has the potential to save up to 15,000 tonnes of jet fuel over three years. The airline has entered into an agreement with KSU Aviation to launch the TaxiBot operations, according to a statement on Thursday. [...]

KPI Group has partnered with UAE-based Tristar Transport LLC to develop eco-friendly energy solutions across multiple regions, including the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, America and Europe. The agreement involves the utilisation of the respective expertise of both parties to identify and execute renewable energy projects, such as wind, solar, green hydrogen and green ammonia [...]

Smartphone maker vivo on Thursday said it will invest Rs 1,100 crore more by the end of 2023 to scale up its manufacturing capacity in the country, and that production in its upcoming unit at Greater Noida is expected to commence by early 2024. vivo India also said it is "on track" to export more [...]

The Mangalore Catholic Cooperative (MCC) Bank, one of the pioneers of cooperative banks in Karnataka, has recorded a pre-tax profit of Rs 12.20 crore in the 2022-23 financial year. The 111-year-old bank has been progressively reducing the non-performing assets (NPA) and for the first time in recent years, reduced the level to 1.37 per cent, [...]

State-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Adani-Total Gas Ltd and Shell were among the 29 companies that bid and bought natural gas to be produced from the deepest field in the KG-D6 block of Reliance Industries Ltd and bp, sources said. IOC walked away with almost half of the 6 million standard cubic meters per day [...]

Realty firm Hiranandani Communities will invest Rs 1,000 crore to develop a new housing project in Mumbai to tap rising demand. The company has launched a new housing project -- 'Golden Willow' -- in its mixed-use integrated township 'Hiranandani Fortune City' at Panvel. The company plans to develop 1 million square feet of residential space in [...]

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 [...]