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A meeting of the board of Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd will be held on February 06 to consider the merger of its wholly owned subsidiary South India Sugars Ltd with Rajshree Sugars & Chemicals Ltd.
An relenting opposition on Wednesday kept the pressure on the government in the Rajya Sabha on the spiraling prices alleging scam in sugar imports, a charge rejected by Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.
India's sugar exports are experiencing a major decline as the figure stands at only 2.94 lakh tonne (294,000 tonne) with only three months to go in the current season against 16 lakh tonne (1.6 million) in the entire last year.
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The increase in MAT rate from 15% to 18% in effective terms to 19.93% from 16.995% would mean higher cash outflow for the companies paying tax at MAT Rate like Balrampur Chini and Bajaj Hindusthan.
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Under the proposed deal, Wilmar would acquire shares of Renuka Sugars, a domestic firm, pursuant to a preferential allotment and a consequential open offer to the shareholders.
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that the trial court judge was in a "hurry" and did not afford a reasonable opportunity to the prosecutor to oppose Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's bail in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise scam.
As raw sugar futures jumped 3 per cent on Monday to 21.55 cents a British pound, traders expect further increases in sugar prices in the coming days, until a clear picture emerges about the magnitude of the shortfall in the Indian sugar crop and production. When India, which is the largest sugar consumer, enters the market, there is bound to be considerable volatility in prices, analysts said, suggesting that the situation is akin to what India had experienced in early 90s.
Falling sugar production in the European countries would provide an excellent opportunity for Indian sugar exports to the European Union market, says a top government official.
ugar mills in UP owe thousands of crores to cane farmers.
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The govt is increasing the duty to 15 per cent from the existing 10 per cent.
'There are legions of unemployed degree holders across rural and semi-urban belts in Maharashtra. Now, they aren't finding brides.' 'This issue has now snowballed into a social crisis. In 2014 and 2019, they had voted for the BJP.'
'China will do everything to hamper our ability to be a competitor.' 'China wants every country in the region to be subservient and we are the biggest stumbling block.'
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India's bumper sugar production has caused ripples in the global market with other producers wondering whether the Indian commodity will reach their export markets in the world.
'The BJP alliance needs to handle the Maratha quota issue skilfully and address its root cause, which is agrarian distress. Then there is stalled industrialisation. If these issues are addressed, caste fault lines would wither away. But, this is next to impossible in a short span of three-four months.'
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The Indian government's decision to build 4 to 5 million tonnes of buffer stock of sugar has not gone well with the sugar industry.
Domestic customers will get access to high-quality Swiss products such as watches, chocolates, biscuits, and clocks at lower prices as India will phase out customs duties under its trade pact with the EFTA bloc on these goods over a period of time. India and the four-European nation bloc EFTA signed a trade and economic partnership agreement (TEPA) on Sunday to boost trade and investments between the two regions. The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) members are Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland.
Sugar prices reached a four-month high on Tuesday after India, the world's largest consumer, lifted duties on the import of raw sugar to bridge a shortfall in domestic production.
With production hitting a three-year low of 14.7 million tonnes in this sugar season (October to September), the government is also expected to double the levy quota for the PDS from 10 to 20 per cent to tide over shortages. The levy price and quota act as a notional benchmark for open market sugar prices, which have doubled to Rs 34 to Rs 35 a kg since last September, owing to a global shortage. The price of levy sugar is half that of the open market price.
The extensive campaigning tours and related events undertaken by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal indicate that he does not appear to be suffering from any serious or 'life threatening' ailment, a Delhi court has held while denying him interim bail.
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The Ruia group, which had taken over ailing companies like Jessop and Dunlop India for turnaround, is also eyeing the sugar sector.
Sugar-powered cars may be our future. Researchers have developed a 'revolutionary' process for converting plant sugars into hydrogen, which they claim could be used to cheaply and efficiently run vehicles. According to the researchers, the conversion process involves combining plant sugars, water and a cocktail of powerful enzymes to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide under mild reaction conditions.
Richard Lucas, renewable energy analyst at Ambrian Partners, says that as oil prices shot up, speculators got very excited about sugar, which drove the price up beyond what it should have gone to, but the long-term view of sugar is very positive.
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The ED has attached seven sugar mills worth over Rs 1,097 crore in a money laundering case against former Uttar Pradesh BSP MLC Mohammed Iqbal and his family, officials said.
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India is all set to export raw sugar for the first time. The Indian Sugar Exim Corporation has signed a deal with Al Khaleej refinery of Dubai to export raw sugar.
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