Microfinance industry loan portfolio grew by 5 per cent year-on-year to Rs 2,62,598 crore in the fiscal ended March 2022, according to a report by Sa-Dhan released on Tuesday. In the year-ago period, the same stood at Rs 2,50,826 crore. Sa-Dhan is an RBI recognised Self Regulatory Organisation (SRO) for microfinance institutions. In the last quarter [...]
A senior official of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) on Tuesday called for stopping the industrial use of edible oils while pointing out that the paints industry consumes 23 per cent of the country's edible oil. Speaking with PTI, ICAR Assistant Director General (Oilseeds and Pulses) Dr Sanjeev Gupta on Tuesday said, "It [...]
Leading stock exchange BSE on Tuesday said its board has appointed S S Mundra, a public interest director, as the chairman of the bourse. Mundra will replace Justice Vikramajit Sen. "This is to inform that the board of directors of the company on Monday had considered and approved the appointment of S S Mundra, public [...]
The new brand theme ‘Live Your Purpose’ focuses on enabling clients to think beyond managing their wealth, and pursuing their deeper purpose in life Kotak Mahindra Group (“Kotak Group”) today unveiled Kotak Private – a new proposition that offers a comprehensive platform covering the entire gamut of solutions for ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNI) and [...]
The markets rebounded and ended their six-day falling streak on Monday as banking, financial, power and auto stocks gained. On Tuesday, we saw that the benchmark indices continued to increase. Analysts said that the recent selling pressure seems to have halted and that a close above the 15,900-16,000 level (Nifty 50) could send signs of [...]
IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd on Tuesday reported a 79.04 per cent jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 175 crore for the fourth quarter ended in March 2022. The company had clocked a net profit of Rs 97.45 crore during the year-ago quarter, IRB Infrastructure Developers said in a BSE filing. Its total income [...]
Drug firm Abbott India on Tuesday said its net profit increased by 39 per cent to Rs 211 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2022. The company had reported a net profit of Rs 152 crore in the January-March quarter of 2020-21 fiscal. Revenue from operations rose to Rs 1,255 crore in the period [...]
EKI Energy Service on Tuesday posted a multi-fold jump in standalone net profit at Rs 383.36 crore in 2021-22 financial year, mainly on the back of higher revenues. The standalone net profit of the company was at Rs 18.69 crore in the fiscal ended March 2021. In the last fiscal, total standalone income rose to [...]
Two American nationals have pleaded guilty in a case of multimillion-dollar scheme to manipulate the Marketplace platform of Amazon in which an Indian-origin former employee of the e-commerce giant was sentenced to 10 months in prison in February. Amazon Marketplace is an e-commerce platform owned and operated by Seattle-based Amazon that enables third-party sellers to [...]
The government has completed transactions worth Rs 1 lakh crore under the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) in 2021-22, surpassing the ambitious programme's first-year target of Rs 88,000 crore, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Tuesday. Addressing an event organised by Public Affairs Forum of India (PAFI), Kant said India needs to fire on all [...]
India's second largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Tuesday posted over two-fold jump in its consolidated net profit to Rs 2,008 crore for the March quarter. The net profit stood at Rs 759 crore in the year-ago period. Airtel's revenue from operations rose 22.3 per cent to Rs 31,500 crore during the fourth quarter of [...]
Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) Secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey on Tuesday said the weak debut of the country's largest insurer LIC on the bourses was due to unpredictable market conditions and suggested investors to hold on to the stock for long-term value. LIC on Tuesday listed its shares at a discount of [...]
Kajaria Ceramics Ltd on Tuesday reported a decline of 25.87 per cent in consolidated net profit at Rs 97.23 crore for the fourth quarter ended March. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 131.17 crore in the year-ago period, Kajaria Ceramics said in a BSE filing. However, its revenue from operations was up [...]
RBL Bank on Tuesday said it has raised USD 100 million (about Rs 770 crore) through its first issuance of Basel III-compliant unsecured and subordinated tier 2 bonds. The tier 2 bond issuance increases the bank’s total Capital Adequacy Ratio to 17.85 per cent, RBL Bank said in a statement. The bonds with a tenor [...]
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India's steel exports are expected to remain strong in the coming months as higher prices and regional demand would drive the steel companies to divert part of their output to exports, according to Moody's Investors Service. In its report 'Steel – Asia Pacific: Higher raw material costs reduce benefit of steel price gains amid Ukraine [...]
The value of foreign portfolio investors' (FPI) holdings in domestic equities reached USD 612 billion in the March quarter, down 6 per cent from the preceding quarter, according to a Morningstar report. This was largely on the back of a massive sell-off by foreign investors and correction in the Indian equity markets. At the end [...]
Bajaj Electricals on Tuesday reported a 28.73 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 38.67 crore for the fourth quarter ended March 2022. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 54.26 crore for March quarter of the previous fiscal year, Bajaj Electricals said in a regulatory filing. However, total revenue from [...]
