History beckons trailblazers Bengaluru FC as they lock horns with Air Force Club of Iraq in the summit clash of AFC Cup in Doha on Saturday, aiming to become the first Indian football club to clinch a continental title. Bengaluru FC have already created history by becoming the first Indian club to qualify for the final of a continental tournament after they defeated defending champions Johor Darul Ta'zim in the semifinals on 4-2 aggregate last month. Before this, the farthest an Indian club had advanced in a continental tournament was the two AFC Cup semifinal appearances by Dempo in 2008 and East Bengal in 2013.
As record stock market rally continues, the value of shares directly owned by next-generation business leaders at 20 major corporate houses has soared over 18 per cent to Rs 17,000 crore.
Largest deal in thermal power space; Lanco to use proceeds to lower debt.
Promoter holding in family-owned firms up 70 bps since 2005, 240 bps since 2010.
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Since April 1, promoters of Jaiprakash Associates have released more than 225 million Jaiprakash Power Ventures shares (valued at Rs 425 crore) pledged with lenders.
Political stability and a couple of big projects are pluses, but focus on medium and small industries is still missing.
M-cap of 35% of BSE-500 companies, excluding financial ones, is below their debt or just a shade above
Jindal Steel and Power and JSW Steel, are in competing talks to buy parts of insolvent Italian steelmaker Lucchini.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries:
The two nations share a problem of corporate debt gone bad that is so large and opaque.
Ajit Mishra, Vice President, Research, Religare Broking, answers readers' queries on stocks they own or want to buy.
Firms generated free cash flows in 2013-14, for the first time since the 2008 Lehman crisis
In the December quarter, Sensex earnings had contracted 5 per cent.
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Cumulatively for the first two quarters till now, the advance tax collections from the Mumbai zone, which contributes over a third of the income tax collections nationally, have grown 11 per cent, the official said.
The country imported 9.31 million tonnes (mt) of steel in FY15.
Then chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.
Karnataka proposes to auction 15 of its Category-C mines to end-users.
Budget in the medium term aims to kick-start the investment cycle.
Industry demands the basic customs duty on all steel imports to be raised to 25%
Few top honchos of India Inc did very well in 2014.
It emphasised that agricultural infrastructure needs considerable investments and hence Section 80IA benefits must be extended to all such investments like IT infrastructure, computers, VSAT, solar panels, water harvesting facilities, storage etc.
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
