Announces 50% cut in prepaid monthly recharge.
Mahan Coal claims it is being targeted at the behest of 'foreign masters' of the Western world.
Announces 50% cut in prepaid monthly recharge.
In a boost to Essar group, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed it to go ahead with its Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) oil refinery project at Jamnagar in Gujarat.
When asked whether the Reserve Bank of India had sent any further comments, Dua replied in the negative.
Essar Steel wants to partner with a foreign company to consolidate its position in the automobile steel market in India. The company, soon to be a 10-million tonne per annum manufacturer, has 20-25 per cent of the auto steel market. It does not wish to lose any of it to the recent joint ventures formed by various Indian steelmakers with Japanese ones.
Essar Oil Ltd, India's second largest fuel retailer, has reopened about 350 petrol pumps it was forced to shut down due to heavy losses on matching petrol and diesel prices with hugely-subsidised public sector rates.
The overdues of Essar group as reported by ICICI, IDBI, IFCI and the RBI totaled Rs 1,039 crore, Minister of State for Finance and Company Affairs Anandrao Adsul said Tuesday.
The Rs 5,700-crore Essar Group has recommenced the 12 million tonne mega refinery project in Gujarat, stalled since 1999, after tying up with financial institutions.
The Essar Group is close to buying Trinity Coal, one of the top 10 coal producers in the US, in a deal worth $550-600 million (Rs 2,500-2,735 crore). Trinity is owned by private equity investment firm Denham Capital Management.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said Pradhanmantri Suryodaya Yojana will enable one crore families to get up to 300 units of free electricity monthly and help them save up to Rs 18,000 annually. "There is provision of Rs 10,000 crore for rooftop solar (scheme) in the Budget," said finance secretary T V Somanathan in press conference on Budget later in the day. Earlier in the day Sitharaman in her interim Budget speech said through rooftop solarisation, one crore households will be enabled to obtain up to 300 units of free electricity each month.
Central Bureau of Investigation has received a number of representations including some from legal luminaries saying the Essar group has no links with Loop Telecom which is under the scanner in the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Essar Oil Ltd plans to sell its energy division to Bin Jabr Group Ltd, an Abu Dhabi-based oil and gas service provider.
Power Grid Corp of India Ltd is set to form joint ventures with five more companies, including Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Essar, for setting up transmission lines in the country entailing a total investment of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion).
These service centres will be set up across India, North America and the Middle East to cater to specific steel requirements of the auto, white goods and SME sectors. Essar intends to set up about 15-20 such centres with a cumulative capacity of 4.2 million tonnes per annum as against the present 2.5 MTPA. The Rs 1,000 crore proposed for the project would include the costs incurred on expansion of the company's existing service centres, Essar Steel Group CEO J Mehra said.
The US acquisition comes barely three days after Essar Global announced its acquisition Canadian firm Algoma Steel for $1.58 billion (Rs 6,900 crore).
The company would also increase its head count by ten fold to 10,000 in the next three years from the current 1000.
The group approached the apex court after being asked by Delhi high court to seek a clarification whether the special court can conduct a trial of companies which are not charged under the PCA in the case arising out of the probe in the 2G spectrum scam case.
The investments would be made in the company's acquired companies, Algoma in Canada and Minnesota Steel in the US, as well as greenfield plants in Trinidad and Tobago. The groundbreaking ceremony for the first steelmaking facility in Minnesota's Iron Range was held on Sunday.
After the UK-based Hinduja group, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's proposed Rs 26,500-crore (Rs 265 billion) refinery at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, has found new suitors in Reliance Industries and Essar Oil.
Reliance Industries and Essar Oil are keen on buying crude oil from Cairn India's Rajasthan fields even as the petroleum ministry struggles to find takers of the nation's most prolific oil discovery among public sector firms.
The Development Commissioners have recommended to the Board of Approval to cancel these SEZ projects.
With power trading thrown open for competition, Reliance Industries and Essar Energy are among the six applicants who have applied for licence to venture into power trading.
The Lucknow golfer, who won the Hero Honda Open West in Pune earlier this year, closed the 54-hole tournament with a final round of one-under 69 for a tally of nine-under 201.
Ashok Piramal Group company Peninsula Land has inked a property deal worth Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion) with Essar Realty Holdings, the realty arm of the Essar Group, to sell and lease premises at its upcoming IT park named Peninsula Technopark on LBS Marg in Kurla. The deal was signed recently, according to sources.
Essar group plans to invest an additional Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in Gujarat, starting next financial year, in a bid to make the state the 'petrol capital' of India.
Essar Oil announced on Friday it will spend about $6 billion (Rs 24,000 crore) to more than triple its refining capacity in three years, and that it had shelved a plan to delist the company's shares from the stock market. The company, owned by Mumbai-based Ruias, plans to expand capacity from the current 10.5 million tonnes per annum to 34 million tonnes per annum by 2010.
Indian and global construction companies vying for Rs 12,000 crore worth of civil works for Dedicated Freight Corridor.
The company would also increase its head count by over eight-fold to 10,000 in the next three years from the current 1,200.
Essar group on Friday said it will invest Rs 10,500 crore (Rs 105 billion) in a special economic zone at Hazira and augment the steel manufacturing capacity to nine million tonnes, besides expanding the Vadinar refinery.
Essar Oil has agreed to the government condition of not raising any funds against the Ratna and R-series oil fields for its refinery project, so as to expedite signing of the long-delayed contract for the field.
Legal wrangle looms over sale to foreign firm, fund.
Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Essar were among 17 aspirants, who were granted in-principle approval by the government on Monday for setting up Special Economic Zones.
Essar Oil has decided to cut petrol and diesel prices in the range 50 paise to Rs 2.50 per litre effective from July 16.
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board on Friday cleared 68 per cent foreign shareholding in cellular company Hutchison Essar, including the 10 per cent indirect stake held by Egyptian telecom operator Orascom.
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