State-run National Thermal Power Corporation on Friday said it will borrow Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) from Life Insurance Corporation during the fourth quarter of the current fiscal to fund its capital expenditure requirements.
'In the short term, we may see some disruptions due to Covid, but in the medium-to-long term, we should keep an eye on US inflation and 10-year bond yields.'
IT, FMCG and manufacturing sectors are less attractive to foreign portfolio investors
The government holds 90 per cent stake in ITI which is valued at Rs 7,550 crore.
Players seek separate deduction for long term savings, or alternatively hike in exemption limit U/s 80 C; also seek longer period of carry forward of losses under Income Tax Act and also to increase FDI limit from 26% to 49%
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Life Insurance Corporation of India, the country's largest institutional investor, is planning to pump in at least Rs 75,000 crore in equities during the next financial year.
Life Insurance Corporation has mopped up over Rs 5,200 crore (Rs 52 billion) from Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana, but its market share from other products dipped further to 87.76 per cent till January.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Life Insurance Corporation of India chairman S B Mathur on Monday said the corporation had no intention to pick up strategic stake in UTI Bank or in any other bank.
In what could be a major relief to policy holders, LIC and other insurers are likely to absorb the 10 per cent service tax and 2 per cent education cess this fiscal.
The banks also received a warning from the rating agency Care, in February 2016, after Firestar's financials deteriorated.
The rating agency revised the outlook for EXIM, SBI, Bank of Baroda, Bank of Baroda (New Zealand), Bank of India, Canara Bank, Punjab National Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank while affirming their ratings. At the same time, Fitch has affirmed IDBI Bank Ltd's (IDBI) rating, while maintaining the outlook at negative.
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Anil Rego, CEO, Right Horizons, answers your personal income tax queries.
Life Insurance Corporation, the country's largest insurer, has consolidated its position by recording 178 per cent increase in premium collection during April-September this fiscal
Tax Guru Anil Rego answers your personal income tax queries.
It will take over large non-performing assets of banks and help in revive companies ridden with bad debts.
Ambani now holds 80.52 lakh shares or 0.12 per cent of RIL, up from 75 lakh shares held before the rights issue. His wife Nita and children Isha, Akash, and Anant too got 5.52 lakh shares each after they subscribed to the rights offering. They, too, hold 0.12 per cent each in the firm.
LIC is on board after tying up with all five insurance repositories; 1,50,000 e-Insurance Accounts opened across India till date.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the government has no business to be in business and his administration is committed to privatising all PSUs barring the bare minimum in four strategic sectors. "It is government's duty to support enterprises and businesses. But it is not essential that it should own and run enterprises," he said. Modi also said the Centre's policy is to either monetise or modernise public sector enterprises, with the intent that the government has "no business to be in business".
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The top-100 wealth creators generated Rs 49 lakh crore during 2014-19, the highest-ever quantum of wealth added, according to Motilal Oswal's Annual Wealth Creation Study 2019. According to the study, Reliance Industries, Indiabulls Ventures and IndusInd Bank are the biggest, fastest and most-consistent wealth creators, respectively. The number of PSUs in the top-100 wealth creators is only nine, namely IOC, BPCL, HPCL, Power Grid Corporation, Petronet LNG, Indraprastha Gas, LIC Housing, Bharat Electronics and NBCC.
Independent market analyst Ambareesh Baliga points out the red flags that retail investors should not have ignored and lists three scenarios -two of these scenarios offer a glimmer of hope to retail shareholders of Yes Bank - that could play out in the coming days.
Well, LIC, the government-owned insurer, is bailing out the financially-strapped oil marketing companies by buying up the oil bonds issued to them by the government, though at a discount.
The stock lending and borrowing (SLB) scheme has failed to pick up momentum in the first week after its introduction following a lack of active participation from top domestic institutions, which hold a chunk of shares in listed companies.Stock market experts are of the view that not allowing Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), one of the biggest investors in the domestic market, to participate in SLB is a major hurdle for the scheme to take off.
'We may bite the bullet and draw up plans for privatisation.' 'If that is done now, the sale of the government stake will fetch money; a delay will see erosion in whatever value is left in these banks,' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Close on the heels of public sector banks slashing their home loan rates, LIC Housing Finance, has announced a 1.75-2.25 per cent cut in its lending rates for home loans up to to Rs 20 lakh (Rs 2 million) from December 17.
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Samsung which leads the global list takes the 10th spot in India.
The due date for filing Income Tax returns for 2019-20 has already been extended till November 30, 2020.
In a bid to resurrect Air India privatisation, the government is planning to give flexibility to potential investors to decide on the humongous debt with the national carrier, a top official has said. The flexibility to potential investors on the quantum of the Rs 60,074 crore debt that they want to absorb will replace the current condition of the buyer taking over more than a third of the debt and transferring the rest to a special purpose vehicle, Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said.
There is little doubt that the policy offers some interesting features, but these do not come for free, policy holders have to pay for the same by way of higher premiums.
The airline's 100 per cent shareholding in profit-making budget carrier Air India Express as well as 50 per cent shareholding in equal joint venture Air India SATS Airport Services would also be sold.
Rented housing and fixed rents, like it's in developed countries, could be one way to ensure that everyone in cities has a roof over his head.
Tax expert Anil Rego answers readers' questions about how Finance Minister Piyush Goyal's Budget affects you.
S V Ramanan, CEO, CAMS Repository Services, answered readers' queries on electronic insurance in an online chat with readers August 6
