Experts said many firms had unbilled assets on their books.
Neeraj Prakash, MD, Shriram General Insurance, explains how new measures proposed in the Motor Vehicles Act can smoothen the lives of the insured and insurer and how the government plans to make more vehicles owners buy insurance.
Encouraged by softening inflation, the RBI on Thursday decided to cut the benchmark interest rate by 0.25 per cent to 7.75 per cent with a view to boost growth.
Most top industrialists rate PM's first 100 days in office as 'good', primarily due to his intentions, not concrete policy measures.
More asset sales may be only way out, though most of the group companies' ratings have been downgraded and their combined market value is now a fraction of their combined debt.
Tata Steel and Tata Chemicals under investor watch
State owned banks SBI and PNB were the top Nifty gainers along with ICICI Bank and auto shares.
Axis Bank emerged as the biggest gainer in the Sensex pack, surging 6.62 per cent, followed by SBI at 5.88 per cent.
Raamdeo's base argument is that India's stock market merely mirrors the national economy, which is poised for big things.
One of the finest minds on foreign exchange management, monetary and fiscal policies, on debt and currency markets, on bank management and governance, and indeed on almost every aspect of modern finance and banking passes into the ages.
From Dabur to HUL, here are 10 stocks with significant rural exposure in the auto, agri-chemical and fast moving consumer goods sectors, which should see an uptick in sales growth.
Sensex surged 486 points or 1.9%.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your stock market queries.
Close to a million small shareholders have stake in nine NCLT-bound companies
The NITI Aayog's vice-chairman's charge holds ground.
It has been a decade since Shyam Srinivasan took over as managing director and chief executive officer at Federal Bank. He wants to ramp up the bank's unsecured lending going ahead even as it homes into the space vacated by competition. Reappointed for a fresh three-year term as the bank's helmsman, he spoke to Hamsini Karthik on the plot ahead.
Experts view this as a case of "failed experiment" in succession
Nifty50 surged 145 points to close at 8,468 after hitting an intra-day high of 8,475.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Specific sections of the Companies Act need to be amended to empower Sebi to regulate or take penal action against an unlisted entity and its promoters for violating the insider trading and other securities norms.
ITC, Infosys, Wipro and HDFC Bank among the major losers.
The strategy of returning cash to shareholders through stock purchases could hinder their digital expansion plans
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Promoter holding in family-owned firms up 70 bps since 2005, 240 bps since 2010.
Analysts mostly prefer domestic plays beside select films with foreign exposure.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
More punitive action was needed against the company and the management, say experts
Rate-sensitive sectors like banks, auto and realty witnessed strong buying demand in trades today
Women from promoter families who have become directors since January this year include Sarala Birla (Century Textiles, Century Enka), Nawaz Gautam Singhania (Raymond Group), Bina Modi (Godfrey Phillips), Saroj Bhartia (Jindal Drilling & Industries) and Deepshikha Khaitan (Cera Sanitaryware).
Drivezy is helping people share their vehicles.
Right marketing and product strategy have helped Falguni Nayar build a beauty retail business.
India's good fortune, experts in the US feel, is not the result of a fundamentally strong economy, but because it is the best of a bad set of options.
BHEL down around 2.4% and Bharti Airtel down around 1.6% were other major losers.
Piramals are the largest investors in the Indian real estate sector after HDFC, with investments worth $3 billion already.
Murthy no more chairman emeritus; founders do not want to be addressed as promoters.
National Demorcatic Alliance ministry's list of assets is fairly wide -- from land and property to vehicles and, for quite a few, guns. Nivedita Mookerji reports
Sahara chief Subrata Roy may not come out clean in the biggest ever investment fraud that he allegedly did few years ago.
Firms with low promoter holding may get to buy shares from secondary market.
Some big ones hoard cash unduly and others borrow to keep up payments to shareholders