The Indian government has informed the Lok Sabha that the income-tax return (ITR) e-filing portal is functioning in a 'largely stable and efficient manner' despite a significant increase in traffic during the peak filing season. However, it acknowledged transient technical issues and disclosed that contractual penalties have been imposed on Infosys for project delays and service-level agreement failures.
...exceeding their 49,340 crore equity selloff.
Analysts predict that inflation data, the US Federal Reserve's interest rate decision, and crude oil price trends will be the primary factors influencing the movement of Indian stock markets. Geopolitical developments, particularly the US-Iran deal, and foreign investor activity will also play a crucial role.
NSE's draft prospectus discloses a legal dispute over 5,000 shares allegedly transferred by mistake into an individual investor's demat account.
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have withdrawn over Rs 62,853 crore from Indian equities in the first fortnight of June, bringing the total outflows for 2026 to Rs 2.87 lakh crore, surpassing the entire 2025 figure, driven by geopolitical tensions, global economic growth concerns, and a weakening rupee.
Foreign Portfolio Investors (FPIs) have withdrawn nearly Rs 43,000 crore from Indian equities in the first week of June, contributing to a total outflow of Rs 2.67 lakh crore in 2026, driven by a global shift towards technology and AI-linked opportunities and persistent rupee depreciation.
The first day of the year 2026 was positive for the debt market with foreign investors buying a net domestic debt of Rs 7,524 crore, the highest single-day inflow since May 29 last year.
In the mid-1990s, when the shares of listed companies first began to be held in electronic form, they accounted for less than 1 per cent of the stocks bought and sold on the stock exchanges. This climbed to 99.5 per cent by 2001.
Foreign investors pulled out Rs 17,955 crore (Rs 2 billion) from Indian equities in the first two weeks of this month, taking the total outflow to Rs 1.6 lakh crore (Rs 18.4 billion) in 2025.' This sharp withdrawal follows a net outflow of Rs 3,765 crore in November, extending the pressure on domestic equity markets.
Fears around artificial intelligence (AI) sparked a global selloff in information technology (IT) stocks, dragging down domestic software shares and prompting the heaviest foreign portfolio investor (FPI) outflows since the second half of July 2025.
Shares of Adani group companies witnessed a massive drubbing in morning trade on Monday, tumbling up to 25 per cent, amid reports that the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has frozen certain FPIs accounts that have holding in some of these firms.
Capital markets regulator Sebi has kept in 'abeyance' the proposed initial share sale of securities depository NSDL. However, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) did not clarify further. The National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) filed its preliminary papers with the capital markets regulator on July 7.
Sebi, in its first-of-its-kind disgorgement order passed at the end of November last year, had asked the two depositories and 10 entities to pay Rs 115.81 crore (Rs 1.15 billion).
Sebi has directed the depositories to ask all the depository participants to examine the origin of accounts that did not comply with the requirement for Permanent Account Number.
About 48 lakh demat accounts have been frozen by the two depositories, National Securities Depository Ltd and Central Depository Services Ltd, because investors failed to submit Income Tax Department's PANs.
In its judgment the tribunal said that all the accused entities should be given a chance for hearing, besides asking Sebi to establish whether these entities have made any unlawful gains through the IPO scam, which saw several entities cornering huge allotments during initial share issuances by applying for shares through thousands of illegal accounts.
After dematerialising crores of shares over the past seven years, the National Securities Depository Ltd is set to extend the service to other financial instruments.
With rising instances of non-compliance with rules, the country's top depository National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has revised the penalty imposed on erring market participants, which came into effect from May 1.
Foreign investment in bonds issued by Indian corporates touched a 10-year high in May at 20,996 crore, driven by $3.35 billion fundraise by the Shapoorji Pallonji (SP) group, which saw infusion from Deutsche Bank, BlackRock, Morgan Stanley, Davidson Kempner, and Cerberus Capital, among others. The SP group sold three-year bonds, offering 19.75 per cent yield compounded annually and payable at maturity.
Rai, who is as tall as Bhave at 5 feet 11 inches, has always been under his shadow, though he has been with NSDL since its inception 11 years ago. Only time will prove if he can grow as tall as Bhave in stature.
When shares in the electronic form are available with the depositories, it acts as primary evidence for those who hold the shares.
Global fund managers witnessed one of their largest-ever declines in assets under custody (AUC) during the ongoing correction in the Indian markets, as stocks came under pressure from foreign outflows and the weakening rupee.
The government favours 100 per cent foreign direct investment in the pension sector, which will have a "limited" number of fund managers, a top finance ministry official said on Monday.
Chandrasekhar Bhaskar Bhave has always tried to avoid controversy, but that's something that has followed him like a shadow in the last three years of his professional career.
The finance ministry on Thursday appointed National Securities Depository Ltd to provide PAN cards to new taxpayers in 139 cities from next week.
Interim pension regulator Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority has appointed National Securities Depositories Ltd as an agency to track the pension records of those under the new pension scheme.
C B Bhave, chairman and managing director of National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL), is believed to be leading the race for the sixth chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi).
The govt is likely to announce the new Sebi chief by Feb 10 as interviews for the position is over. Six people have been interviewed.
Details of the hearing could not be ascertained. Last month, Sebi had dismissed the recommendations made by a committee in two of three matters filed on the subject.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal has adjourned the first hearing of National Securities Depository Ltd's appeal against Sebi's interim order on the IPO scam as the market regulator could not hire a senior counsel to argue its case.
Shares of Adani group companies witnessed a massive drubbing in morning trade on Monday, tumbling up to 25 per cent, amid reports that the National Securities Depository Ltd (NSDL) has frozen certain FPIs accounts that have holding in some of these firms.
The National Securities Depository Ltd has been asked to start the online PAN Book from April to enable assesses to see their tax filing records on the Internet.
