Uppal, Kotwal, Venkataramanan shortlisted for managing director's post; outsider not ruled out.
These include B K Modi's Spice, Larsen & Toubro and Tech Mahindra. iGate, which had participated in the first round of bidding, backed out from completing the second round. Global majors like IBM are understood to have entered the second round, but this could not be independently confirmed. Other names floating include that of Hewlett-Packard and KKR Private Equity Investors.
Dalal Street investors became richer by Rs 9.68 lakh crore in five days of market rally, where the Sensex breached the historic 73,000-mark for the first time ever to reach a new record peak, taking the market capitalisation of BSE-listed companies to an all-time high of Rs 376 lakh crore. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 759.49 points or 1.05 per cent to settle at a new closing high of 73,327.94 on Monday. During the day, it zoomed 833.71 points or 1.14 per cent to reach its all-time peak of 73,402.16.
To present revival plan to board; Naik meets PMO official.
Lockheed Martin is in talks with Infosys Technologies, Wipro, Reliance Industries, the Tata group, Larsen & Toubro and Hindustan Aeronautics to source software services, components and systems.
Larsen & Toubro, now one of Satyam's largest single shareholders with 4 per cent, sees a lot of synergy between the core strengths of the beleaguered software giant with those of L&T Infotech, its unlisted information technology subsidiary.
Four companies, including India's largest private sector electricity generator Tata Power and infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro Ltd, chose not to bid for the Rs 16,000-crore ultra mega power project (UMPP) in Tilaiya in Jharkhand even as Reliance Power, Lanco Infratech and NTPC Ltd, the country's largest power producer, submitted their technical bids.
The presence of the private sector at a prestigious military training institution is an important acknowledgement of its growing capabilities in designing and manufacturing cutting edge aerospace and defence equipment, reports Ajai Shukla.
Among the Sensex firms, UltraTech Cement, Reliance Industries, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, IndusInd Bank, State Bank of India, Tata Consultancy Services, Larsen & Toubro, Kotak Mahindra Bank and State Bank of India were the major gainers. In contrast, Tata Motors, Maruti, Axis Bank, Mahindra & Mahindra, ITC, NTPC, Tata Steel and Bajaj Finserv were the major laggards.
The residential real estate prices in Powai and adjoining areas are around Rs 25,000 per sq ft.
L&T plans to transfer the equity of L&T in their joint ventures with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries into L&T Power through a book transfer, if clauses for the re-tender remain the same, company executives told Business Standard.
Sebi view on Grasim-L&T row in few weeks
The companies include Larsen & Toubro, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, TCS and Sun Pharma
The Bill will be tabled in the winter session of Parliament later this year.
The BoA also allowed three developers, including Unitech Infopark, to surrender their SEZs, he said, adding they would have to pay back the tax concessions availed while executing the projects and other pending dues.
There are some companies in the sector that have seen a decline in revenues but their performance is not sufficient to cause such a decline in industrial production data.
Private sector engineering major Larsen & Toubro has said that China is systematically killing Indian manufacturing sector and sought 25 per cent anti-dumping duty on Chinese goods.
The company, which has been selling mining trucks in collaboration with Larsen & Toubro since 2007-08, has formed an Indian arm, Scania Commercial Vehicles India Pvt Ltd.
Focus on the quality of work and not on the quantity, as one can change the world in 10 hours, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra said on Saturday, joining the debate on a 90-hour work week.
L&T's gameplan is simple: if the government has committed to a 20-25 per cent cut in emission intensity, L&T has to aim for a much higher reduction, so that even if smaller companies take time to come up the curve, the average emission cut would reach the level that the government wants.
Amongst the most aggressive of India's hopeful new Lockheed Martins is the Rs 1,30,000-crore Tata Group, which has launched a carefully crafted bid to become a major player in India's defence industry.
Adani Ports, NTPC, Infosys, Hindustan Unilever, HCL Technologies and Sun Pharma were among the other big gainers. However, Larsen & Toubro, Bajaj Finance, State Bank of India, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank were amonh the major laggards.
Benchmark indices gained for the third day running on Friday, with the Sensex climbing over 300 points amid mixed global market trends. The 30-share BSE benchmark advanced 303.38 points or 0.56 per cent to settle at 54,481.84. During the day, it jumped 448.68 points or 0.82 per cent to 54,627.14. The broader NSE Nifty went higher by 87.70 points or 0.54 per cent to end at 16,220.60.
The orders will be jointly executed by L&T's Heavy Engineering Division and the Engineering & Construction division
The Sensex ended lower by 63 points at 17,059 and the 50-share Nifty shed 16 points to close at 5,179 levels.
Old economy companies such as Hero, M&M (Tech Mahindra), Aditya Birla, Essar, Hindujas and Larsen & Toubro have sprung into action with large acquisitions and major deals.
Sudip Banerjee, CEO, L&T Infotech talks about business post-Satyam, expansion plans and bigger acquisition targets.
The Uttarakhand government has asked Larsen & Toubro to stop work on its 99-Mw Singoli-Bhatwari hydel project in the hilly Rudraprayag district of the state.
A consortium of India's largest engineering company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and non-resident Keralite (NRK) businessman P Mohamed Al-led Galfar Engineering & Contracting has bagged the design and development order for the New Salalah International Airport in the Sultanate of Oman for $764 million (Rs 3,452 crore).
Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro has signed a memorandum of understanding with the US-based GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, one of the largest nuclear power plant vendors in the world, for the construction of nuclear power plants in India.
Post-election capital expenditure (capex) has been weak at 2 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in M9FY25. The FY25 revised estimates (RE) indicate 7 per cent growth in FY25 against FY24, implying 21 per cent Y-o-Y growth in Q4FY25 government capex.
Two former directors on the Larsen & Toubro board have returned the employee stock option shares to the company following an out-of-court settlement reached this week with two government-owned financial institutions.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company, has scaled down its stake in Mahindra Satyam, the erstwhile Satyam Computer Services, to a little over two per cent.
In a communication to L&T, the financial institutions on Thursday said they were withdrawing the nominations of Sinha and Deshmukh from the board with immediate effect.
The domestic capital goods industry has been going through a boom for the last five years and appears confident of maintaining the same momentum in the current year.
With passage of the nuclear liability Bill, the heavy engineering supply chain, led by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL), Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL), is gearing to take up the challenge ahead.
Engineering and construction major Larsen & Toubro would recruit nearly 10,000 people over the next three years for executing its various projects, company sources said on Friday.
