The satta market is accepting bets on how many times Modiji will mention Nehru at his election rallies, says A Ganesh Nadar with a wink.
Fundraising activity in the debt market is gaining momentum ahead of the festival season. Several non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) are planning to raise at least Rs 5,560 crore in the next two days by issuing bonds, with a greenshoe size of Rs 6,370 crore. Ajay Malglunia, managing director and head of investment grade group at JM Financial, said, "The market likes certainty, the market will gain clarity after the US Federal Reserve's (Fed's) policy.
British mining major Rio Tinto will be investing Rs 370 crore (rs 3.7 billion), for exploration and mining of diamonds in Madhya Pradesh's Bunder town, over the next three years, a senior State Government official on Monday said.
An environment impact assessment study by the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, for the proposed Navi Mumbai international airport, has categorically said there should not be any compromise on retaining the geomorphology of rivers, the aquatic life and mangroves in the airport zone.
The direct tax collection for 2009-10 is likely to be around Rs 3.80 lakh crore, missing the revised target by Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion).
The former union home and finance minister also alleged that the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government would not have taken the bold decision had Jammu and Kashmir been a "Hindu-dominated" state.
Benchmark Sensex and Nifty closed at new lifetime high levels on Monday on foreign fund inflows and buying in index majors HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries. The 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 529.03 points or 0.80 per cent to settle at its new all-time closing high of 66,589.93. During the day, it climbed 595.31 points or 0.90 per cent to hit its lifetime intra-day peak of 66,656.20. The NSE Nifty went up by 146.95 points or 0.75 per cent to end at a new record high of 19,711.45.
Seeking to develop and rejuvenate 75 water bodies in every district of the country, the prime minister will launch a new initiative named 'Amrit Sarovar', it said.
Tata Sons, India's biggest promoter in the private sector, is expected to earn a record Rs 27,797 crore via equity dividend and proceeds through share buyback from its listed group companies for the financial year 2021-22. This amount is up 17.6 per cent from Rs 23,663 crore that it pocketed in FY21. Nearly two-thirds of these proceeds will show up in Tata Sons' financial results for FY22, thanks to the quarterly interim dividend by its cash cow Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
The legislation was passed by 125 votes in favour and 61 against.
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Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund has said its six shut schemes have received Rs 15,272 crore from maturities, coupons and pre-payments since closing down in April 2020. The fund house had shut six debt mutual fund schemes on April 23 last year, citing redemption pressures and lack of liquidity in the bond market.
The court allowed the group to re-auction certain properties in Ajmer, Firozabad, Vellore, Tiruchirappalli and Ujjain for which the bidding was at a much higher price
For the longest time, the court did not even hear important matters that the government did not want it to. Of late, it has begun to form benches. Meanwhile a lot of the damage has been done and continues to be done, asserts Aakar Patel.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday warned that Bihar's areas close to the borders (seemant) will become 'infested with infiltrators' if Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not voted back to power.
Whether it was the MGNREGS or the NFSA or the Aadhaar-based DBT scheme for cash transfer, the Modi government has built on the basic architecture created by the Singh government. Policy makers in the Modi government, instead of discarding them as products of the previous political regime, worked on them, expanded their scope and reach, and used new tools to improve their performance, explains A K Bhattacharya.
If Saudi Arabia, with just two Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina, can create a huge tourism-based ecosystem beyond oil, Ayodhya is sure to become the world's hottest religious tourism site in less than a decade, predicts R Jagannathan.
It was not all that bright on the industry front in Tamil Nadu, one of the major industrial hubs in the country, towards 2008-end in the wake of the global meltdown, though the state government's pro-active actions fetched it Rs 37,000-crore (Rs 370 billion) investment commitments in the year.
People must have tolerance for each other's opinion at a time when the tolerance level has gone down internationally, Supreme Court judge Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul said on Friday.
Fondly remembering the contribution of retiring members from the Rajya Sabha, Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said the wisdom shared by them would be greatly missed and their departure would leave a void.
Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Gurgaon candidate Yogendra Yadav on Thursday declared his assets to the tune of about Rs 3 crore, which includes farm land, commercial booth and sizable amount of bank deposits and Provident Funds.
SBI, LIC and HDFC, have showed double digit growth.
Board for Reconstruction of Public Enterprises has given its approval for the sale of Tide Water Oil and two other associate companies of Andrew Yule and Company to raise funds for restructuring of the parent.
Ahead of India are the best ever years in our country's history and Reliance is well-placed to be at the vanguard of India's epic leap forward, says Mukesh Ambani.
Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth-largest software services exporter, said on Thursday quarterly profit fell 2.2 per cent, below market expectations
Tata Power finally bit the bullet and filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court on Wednesday against the Maharashtra government.
Sustained buying in tech, cement and auto scrips saw the Sensex close with a gain of 118 points at 6,221.
The NSE Nifty too lost 41.20 points, or 0.36 per cent, to finish at 11,429.50.
The Sensex opened 10 points higher at 5,591, it soon spurted to an intra-day high of 5,605, and is now up 19 points at 5,600. The Nifty is at 1,764 - up seven points.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 13 points at 5,148. It inched a tad higher to touch an intra-day high of 5,149, and is now at 5,143 - up eigth points. The Nifty is up four points at 1,615.
Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor were also present with the PM as he interacted with the students inside the train.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday rebutted the Opposition's charge that the Bharatiya Janata Party too shared the responsibility for the failure to check the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 as it was supporting the then V P Singh-led government at the Centre.
The story of Sahara India Pariwar founder Subrata Roy, who died in Mumbai on November 14 aged 75, is the stuff of movies - of a spectacular rise and an equally spectacular fall. Born in Araria, Bihar, Roy was 30 when he set up Sahara in 1978. He started with a capital of about Rs 2,000, a peon, a clerk and his father's Lambretta scooter in Gorakhpur, eastern Uttar Pradesh, writes Tamal Bandyopadhyay in his 2014 book, Sahara: The Untold Story. Sahara was not his first venture.
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Tata Consultancy Services posted 29.93 per cent jump in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,369.83 crore (Rs 23.69 billion) for the third quarter ended December 31, 2010. The company has announced 200 per cent dividend. It has declared the third interim dividend of Rs 2 per equity share of Re 1 each.
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation will buy 20.9 per cent stake held by banks and financial institutions in its subsidiary Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd for around Rs 370 crore.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday took a swipe at the Congress and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam over dynasty politics and alleged corruption, calling them "2G, 3G, 4G" parties and said the time has come in Tamil Nadu to throw away these and give the power to a "son of the soil".
UCO Bank mulls AT1 offering to raise Rs 1,000 cr.
The BJP game-plan: Take the top slot, or a close second, either for the 'Lotus' or the larger NDA, if it can and push the AIADMK to the third place, explains N Sathiya Moorthy.
