Over 54,000 public sector employees opted for voluntary retirement scheme in 2001-02, Rajya Sabha was informed on Monday.
Public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd on Tuesday revised upwards its net profit for fiscal 2003-04 at Rs 635.50 crore (Rs 6.35 billion) as against Rs 444.51 crore (Rs 4.44 billion) in the previous fiscal.
Sources said the railways is keen to ensure that a purely domestic entity bags the tender and once it was felt that the Chinese JV was a frontrunner for the project, it was scrapped.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd on Monday said it has bagged a Rs 599 crore (Rs 5.99 billion) contract for setting up a 250 MW thermal power plant in Beed district of Maharashtra.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (Bhel) expects exports to constitute 15 per cent of its turnover for 2007, company chairman and managing director T G Ramachandran said Monday.
The army, air force and navy will all benefit from the defence ministry's approval of 'Make in India' equipment.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd has bagged a Rs 2,125 crore (Rs 21.25 billion) worth contract from National Thermal Power Corp for setting up Stage-III of the 1,000 mw Vindhyanchal Super Thermal Power Station in Madhya Pradesh.
Power equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals on Monday announced an investment of upto Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) in the next two years for expanding capacities to meet requirements of 11th and 12th five year plans.
INS Vishakapatnam's ground attack and anti-ship capabilities are achieved through a bank of BrahMos cruise missiles that can be fired at targets up to 295 km away.
In the past 10 trading sessions, shares of the state-owned company have shot up more than 50 per cent.
Wipro, Steel Authority of India, HDFC Bank, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, Bharat Heavy Electricals and Reliance Commnications among companies reporting a decline in headcount in FY17.
Completed projects saw an improvement of 29.2 per cent over the June quarter, which is valued at Rs 0.31 trillion.
The divestment department has lined up a host of companies.
Over the past week, the BSE Sensex ended on a muted note, showing a marginal gain of 2.25 points at 28,114.56.
CRRC Pioneer Electric (India) Private Limited, whose bid for the project is a joint venture of the Chinese firm CRRC Corporation Ltd with a Gurugram-based company according to its website, is one of the six contenders for the tender for procuring propulsion systems or electric traction kits for 44 trains to function as the Vande Bharat Express or Train 18.
Government-owned companies are more generous in rewarding their shareholders with dividends.
Analysts attribute the surge to a host of factors, particularly the interest shown by the retail investors in these two market segments.
The combined net sales of 42 listed construction and capital goods companies that have declared their third-quarter results so far were down 2.3 per cent year-on-year in Q3FY21 while core operating profit was up just 4.9 per cent YoY during the quarter.
While seven companies bagged orders worth Rs 42,000 crore, industry experts said most of this new order activity was a spillover, and fresh project finalisation remains weak.
Time and cost overruns are endemic to most Indian warship building projects. A central reason is the Indian Navy's operational assessment that it is better to get a warship late and ov
Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC), the Indian Railways' wholly-owned listed subsidiary, is eyeing partnerships to offset recurring costs incurred in train operations, which is part of its two-year-old diversification from core catering and ticketing businesses. To this end, it is courting public sector undertakings such as Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) and others to create a special purpose vehicle for the routes for which IRCTC has bid. The Railway ministry opened bids for public private partnerships in passenger train operations in July 2021 and received bids to operate 29 pairs of trains with around 40 modern rakes that would entail an investment of Rs 7,200 crore.
Israel has expressed interest in sharing its expertise on water purification and waste water treatment under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project for cleaning river Ganga.
Oil explorer ONGC again emerged as the highest profit-making PSU of the country during 2012-13 while telecom major BSNL turned out to be the biggest loss-making enterprise, says the Economic Survey.
The national budget 2019-20 had an outlay of Rs 10,000 crore for Phase-II of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles scheme to boost electric mobility and increase the number of EVs in commercial fleets.
India's sourcing from China may not necessarily be for cost-effectiveness alone but also for the lack of domestic qualified bidders, technology or other know-how.
The buyback price is at around 28 per cent premium to the current market price of Rs 67 on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Market cap of government companies has remained unchanged in the past 8 years.
If cleared, the ONGC arm will become the first subsidiary company of an existing Maharatna to get into this superior league among government-owned entities.
In a bid to strengthen their bilateral economic ties, India and Indonesia plan to explore opportunities for co-operation in oil and gas, and railway sectors, among other areas.
Working round-the-clock over the past few days, an Indian Institute of Science team is buildingan indigenous ventilator prototype for Covid-19 victims, and it is expected to be ready in the current month itself. A ventilator can be a life-saver for patients whose lungs are damaged by the Covid-19 infection. But India, like all countries grappling with this pandemic, is likely to face a large shortage of ventilators.
There is a lot of optimism as regards the defence, railway and manufacturing sectors.
The Rs 63,000-cr Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor and Rs 14,000-cr CSTM-Panvel suburban corridor are two of the largest projects.
In 2008, the 13 companies on the list accounted for 34 per cent of the overall m-cap.
Govt has drawn list of PSUs for strategic sale: Jaitley
Capital goods stocks rallied nearly 16 per cent since January on purchases by foreign institutional investors and in anticipation of a change of government at the Centre.
Tiwari also said, "I have identified the police officials who pushed me in connivance with AAP workers and I will show them within four days what police is."
The corridor is expected to attract around Rs 1,250 billion investment and create 4,00,000 jobs. It will start from Mysore, pass through Bengaluru in Karnataka, to connect with Chennai, Coimbatore, Salem and Tiruchy in Tamil Nadu.
Top companies added employees at 3% CAGR from 2003-04 to 2013-14, while revenues grew at 18%.
The government on Thursday fixed Rs 358 a share as the floor price for up to 10 per cent stake sale in Coal India on Friday, which may help the exchequer garner about Rs 22,600 crore (Rs 226 billion) in the biggest sale of shares.
