A back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests that the total mobilisation through share issues (including rights, initial and follow-on issues) will be at least Rs 1.04 lakh crore (Rs 1.04 trillion).
India's well-known investors who are known for their Midas touch have spotted an opportunity in bio-fuel, betting big on ethanol, bio-mass and even bio-fuel equipment makers in India and other parts of the globe.
With pressure mounting on 18 regional exchanges to demutualise, some bourses have decided to shut shop, while others are going in for demutualisation - leading to an eventual consolidation.
International brokerages, especially those which have made recent entry into the domestic market, are lining up to acquire the institutional broking business of the city-based Brics Securities.
Warburg Pincus, a US-based private equity firm, has put in the highest bid worth Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) for ICICI Bank shares.
The domestic mutual funds such as Reliance Mutual Fund and Tata Asset Management Company are in advanced talks with global fund houses and investment advisors, in an attempt to offer global investment products to their Indian investors.
Over 500 minority shareholders of realty major DLF have missed out on a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become 'crorepatis' overnight.
The Rahejas and Star TV are together selling 15 per cent in cable network operator Hathway Cable to private equity firm ChrysCapital.
According to a Thomson Financial research, no Indian investment bank figures in the top ten list of the M&A deals that was struck this year, which was topped by UBS.
Reliance Industries Limited, the country's largest private sector company, is raising $2 billion through a 10-year overseas syndicated loan for funding its oil and gas exploration in the D6 block of the Krishna-Godawari basin.
UK-headquartered Standard Chartered Bank is set to become the third foreign player to enter the Indian retail stock brokerage business by buying a 49 per cent stake in UTI Securities for Rs 140-150 crore.
The stage is all set for a battle among stock exchanges for setting up separate exchanges for small and medium enterprises as they top bourses.
Citigroup's private equity arm Citigroup Venture Capital International, Baring Private Equity, TPG and 3i are the front-runners to acquire an equity stake in Sharekhan, the retail brokerage arm of the Mumbai-based SSKI group.
But contrary to conventional wisdom, the share of hedge funds in total PN investments in the Indian stock markets could be as little as 8-9 per cent.
The Sun, the flagship publication of Murdoch's News Corporation, is in talks with Maran's Sun group to launch an English tabloid in the country.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, Asia's oldest stock exchange, plans to launch a separate trading platform for small and medium enterprises. Sources close to the development said the BSE was preparing a strategy for an SME exchange.
"Our order (over share price manipulation on listing day) is only interim in nature. We are probing further and you can expect more orders in this case," said the official on condition of anonymity.
Oman's largest bank BankMuscat, which recently picked up 43 per cent stake in the domestic brokerage house Mangal Keshav Group
They prefer foreign markets owing to comparatively lower margins than Indian exchanges.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India is expected to shortly release a circular asking mutual fund houses not to park more than 15 per cent of their corpus as bank deposits at any point of time.
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