Star Union Dai-ichi expects to break even within five years of starting operations.
Govt plans cap on third-party claims, three-year time limit for filing claims.
Nippon Life's plan to buy a stake in Reliance Life may be delayed as the deal requires special permission from the government.
Life Insurance Corporation of India, the country largest insurer, is in talks with the government to modify its investment norms to diversify the risk.
Nine years after parting ways, Prannoy Roy and Rupert Murdoch are again coming together for a unique airtime sale and marketing alliance.
Three independent people with knowledge of the talks said the group had been selected in the first round and was now likely to make a formal bid.
"There will be a spectrum of guarantees. For instance, there could be a guarantee on premiums paid or sum insured or rate of return or annuity," said an Irda official.
Vedanta had proposed to buy a 51 per cent stake in Cairn India for $9.6 billion in the middle of last year. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs is expected to take up the issue next week.
The fund, with an initial corpus of $150 million, is set to be the first of its kind, said two independent industry sources familiar with the development.
Life Insurance Corporation of India, Housing Development Finance Corporation and State Bank of India together own a little over 45 per cent in IL&FS. The deal is expected to be valued around $2.5 billion.
At present, when Indian corporates declare dividends, a dividend distribution tax is slapped at 15 per cent.
The finance ministry's plan to offer basic banking licences may find few takers because of doubts over the commercial viability of the proposed business model.
"The main point is managing this growth so as to make it sustainable. Our aim is to grow by at least 25 per cent on-year during 2011-12."
LIC is also working on a new model to scan loan applications.
As it firms up its telecom re-entry strategy, Reliance Industries subsidiary Infotel Broadband has told telecom tower companies that it will pay only half the prevailing rental for towers taken on lease.
Four years after buying Novelis, a company three times its size, Hindalco is now banking on the Atlanta (US)-headquartered aluminium rolling and recycling major to fund its Rs 23,000-crore expansion plan in India.
You can't ask a current borrower to finance your growth, says RBI memeber Yezdi H Malegam.
With Reliance Industries openly expressing displeasure about the merger between its joint venture gas partner, Atlas Energy, with Chevron, all eyes are now on Atlas' special shareholder meeting on February 16, called to approve the proposed merger.
After 15 months of negotiations, the Aditya Birla Group has finally agreed to buy out the US firm Columbian Chemicals Company (CCC) for $875 million from One Equity Partners, the merchant banking arm of JPMorgan Chase. This has catapulted the group to become the world leader in carbon black with a combined two million tonne annual production.
The Aditya Birla Group is in acquisition mode again. It appears set to acquire US carbon black manufacturer Columbian Chemicals. According to two independent sources, negotiations are at the last stages, and a deal is expected to be announced next week. The size of the deal, said these sources, is expected to be around $900 million (Rs 4,100 crore).
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