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Sebi paper recommends rights issue as a preferred fund-raising tool
Mumbai: The capital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has on Tuesday brought out a consultation paper on expediting the process of rights issues recommending the same as a preferred tool of fund raising.
The…
आरईसी लिमिटेड ने 55वीं वार्षिक आम बैठक आयोजित की; अपनी पहली सस्टेनेबिलिटी रिपोर्ट जारी की
निदेशक मंडल ने ग्लोबल रिपोर्टिंग इनिशिएटिव, यूनिवर्सल स्टैंडर्ड्स 2021 के साथ संरेखित आरईसी की पहली सस्टेनेबिलिटी रिपोर्ट जारी की
RECPDCL Hands Over 2 SPVs on Renewable Energy projects in Rajasthan by PGCIL
Gurugram: REC Power Development and Consultancy Limited (RECPDCL), a wholly owned subsidiary of REC Limited, the Maharatna CPSU under the Ministry of Power, handed over two project specific SPVs (Special Purpose Vehicles). namely, Rajasthan…
‘Rural spend, demand will lead to pvt capex growth’
MUMBAI: With the revival of the much-delayed rural consumption on the back of growing income, aggregate demand conditions are gathering momentum, which in turn will lead to the revival of private capex, says the RBI bulletin for July.…
Sitharaman urges PSBs to enhance deposit growth
NEW DELHI: The slow growth in bank deposits again came up for discussion as finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman raised the issue with the chief of public sector banks (PSBs) during a review meeting in New Delhi on Monday. During the…
At $242 billion, India 12th largest holder of US treasuries in June
MUMBAI: Given the high yields that the US government debt has been offering since the interest rates there peaked to a multi-decadal high, the Reserve Bank has been ramping up its investments in the world’s most sought-after public debt…
Centre finishes Digital Personal Data Protection Act draft rules, public consultation soon.
NEW DELHI: The government has finalised the rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act and will release them soon for public consultation, said Electronic and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Monday.
The…
Ola Electric nearly doubles investors’ money in six sessions;
Mumbai: Despite reporting a big surge in quarterly losses last week, Ola Electric has nearly doubled investors' money in just 10 days or six trading sessions.
Defying all the precautionary notes issued by analysts about investing in the…
Foxconn plans to set up battery energy storage system in India
SRIPERUMBUDUR: Taiwanese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is working on plans to set up a battery energy storage system unit in India, its chairman Young Liu said here.
With an eye on the electric vehicle segment, Foxconn has been…
India’s GI-tagged Figs juice exported first time to Poland
NEW DELHI: In order to get India’s agro-products on the global stage, the Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) facilitated the export of India's first ready-to-drink fig juice, made from GI-tagged…
India must create up to 148 million jobs by 2030, says IMF official
NEW DELHI: India needs to create an additional 148 million jobs by 2030 given the population growth, IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath said on Saturday.
“If you look at India’s projections in terms of population growth,…
FM calls for reforms in multilateral development banks at Global South Summit
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sithraman has called for views on actions needed to reform multilateral development banks (MDBs), and how the global south can collaborate better to raise the issue of debt distress faced by the low…
Mid-tier banks boost fixed deposit rates to 8.50%
MUMBAI: Borrowing a leaf from their larger peers who have been wooing depositors with attractive pricing for medium-term fixed deposits of up to 7.30% return per annum, several mid-tier banks are now doing the same offering as much as 8.50%…
Top five discount brokers control 64.6 per cent of NSE volume in July
MUMBAI: Discount brokers continue to chip away market shares from traditional and full-service brokerages by increasing their market share to 64.6 per cent in July from the 58.1 percent last year..
Meanwhile, brokerages added 4.5 million…
Windfall tax on crude petroleum reduced to Rs 2,100 per tonne
NEW DELHI: The government has slashed windfall tax on domestically produced crude oil to Rs 2,100 per tonne, from Rs 4,600 per tonne with effect from Saturday.
The tax is levied in the form of Special Additional Excise Duty (SAED). The…
Buyback tax rules inequitable: Industry
NEW DELHI: Industry representatives have recently submitted representations to the finance minister, urging a reconsideration of new taxation rules concerning the buyback of shares. The 2024 Union Budget imposed up to a 39% tax on…
Manoj Govil appointed as expenditure secretary
NEW DELHI: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the government has changed several secretaries in the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce.
The government has also appointed Manoj Govil, currently secretary in the Ministry of…
SBI hikes lending rate by 10 bps across tenors
NEW DELHI: State Bank of India, the country's biggest lender, has raised the Marginal Cost of Funds-based Lending Rate (MCLR) by 10 basis points (0.1 percentage point), across tenors, making most of the consumer loans costlier. This is the…
US court orders Sterlite Tech to pay USD 96.5 million to Prysmian
NEW DELHI: An American court has ordered Vedanta Group-backed Sterlite Technologies' overseas arm to pay USD 96.5 million, about Rs 810 crore, in damages to US-based Prysmian for violating trade secrets norms, according to a regulatory…
Ecom Express files for Rs 2,600 crore IPO
MUMBAI: Ecom Express, which claims to be the only domestic pure-play B2C e-commerce logistics solutions provider, has filed for an initial share sale worth Rs 2,600 crore with the regulator Sebi.
According to the draft papers, the issue…