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The Delhi High Court has issued notices to Escorts Ltd and chairman Rajan Nanda on a contempt petition filed by his estranged brother Anil Nanda.
Among top losers, Reliance Industries (RIL) sank over 4 per cent, after the company shelved a proposed deal to sell a 20 per cent stake in its oil refinery and petrochemical business to Saudi Aramco for $15 billion. Other laggards included Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, NTPC, SBI and Titan.
After a recent fall in profit, Masayoshi Son of SoftBank announced that the Japanese tech investor will look at dramatic cost-cutting. Before he does that, investments in India for calendar year 2022 (CY22) will fall radically, observed sources in the know. Last year, the company had invested around $3.2-3.5 billion in the Indian start-up ecosystem - almost 10 per cent of the total investment the sector received. For CY22, the investments may not even touch $1 billion.
Recently, ex-Google executive Punit Soni joined FLipkart.
Mobile operator Spice Telecom, which is planning to tap the capital market with an initial public offer, has got Foreign Investment Promotion Board's nod for the public issue.
The legal battle between Byju's and lenders in the US on the edtech firm's $1.2-billion term loan B (TLB), along with the company skipping an interest payment of $40 million on the loan, has made the other investor Davidson Kempner Capital Management, "extremely concerned", according to the people familiar with the matter. They said Byju's has closed a Rs 2,000-crore ($250 million) round from the US-based investment firm and it may stop or consider slowing down the flow of various tranches of that capital to the company. It may also decide not to provide any new funding or participate in any such round in the future, the sources said.
Adani Enterprises' proposed Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) fundraising via fresh issue of equity shares through a public offer would be the fourth biggest by Indian companies, excluding banks and non-banking financial companies.
Petronet LNG Ltd, India's first liquefied natural gas importer, will file a draft prospectus on Tuesday for an initial public offering of 271 million equity shares, representing 35 per cent of equity, to raise around Rs 400 crore.
The 6 IPOs that were scanned by Sebi were the public issues of Suzlon Energy, Jet Airways, NTPC, TCS, Patni Computer Systems and TV Today Network.
Sebi should change the way issues are graded, say experts. In fact, the higher the grade of an IPO, the poorer has been its performance in the market.
Of the 43 new issues listed on the BSE between April and September 2007, 33 are currently trading at a premium over the offer prices. Of the 33, nine have appreciated by over 100 per cent each, while 15 gained between 25 and 100 per cent.
Global stock markets are booming but policymakers must prepare for less favourable conditions.
Talks gain ground of strategic stake sale to foreign investor.
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