Adani Enterprises (AEL), the parent company for the group’s airports and renewable energy businesses, is covered for 12 months of payments amid the lockdown-related economic disruptions, the management said.

SBI’s focus on the insurance business during a challenging year and SBI Life’s technology push to improve digital agent and client engagements remain crucial.

With increased focus on other products like home loans, fixed income products, corporate bonds and deposits, insurance, AIF, PMS, SGBs and NPS, non-MF distribution revenue rose 13% y-o-y to Rs 54 crore.

And in this age of AL, ML and blockchain that are network-based technologies, networking has gained a lot of importance, says Siddarth Bharwani, VP, Brand & Marketing, Jetking Infotrain.

Team-building and customer-connect are more effective than tall agendas

Threat trends show political and economic intentions of cybercriminals.

By expanding the scope of equalisation levy to cover foreign e-commerce platforms, India has rushed to incrementally cast its net wide insofar as the digital service user-base is concerned.

Grofers said the company’s warehouses are operational with 60% staff and to meet the surge in demand, the firm is hiring an additional 2,000 temporary warehouse and delivery staff across the country.

App Annie’s latest report highlights that Zoom is the most downloaded app on iOS amongst all users. But it has also put focus on privacy and security.

IIL is already working with Griffith University for conducting R&D of Zika virus vaccine which is currently at pre-clinical toxicology testing stage.

Trai on March 29 had asked all the telecom operators to extend the validity of talk-time of their pre-paid subscribers so that they continue to get uninterrupted services.

CCMB and Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), New Delhi are working together on the whole genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus isolates which will help them to understand the evolution of the virus and its spread route.

The auction had received a positive response from investors with NHPC receiving bids of 3,540 MW for the tender. This is a shift from the recent trend of tenders being under-subscribed.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has allowed resuming operations in the gardens of Darjeeling, Doars and Terai with a workforce of 25%.

Capturing a still image or recording a special moment is among the best ways to preserve a memory. However, to truly enjoy the experience, the quality of the digital image is paramount, and so, it is important to get yourself a device with an amazing camera.

Private e-mandis, farm-to-fork startups and location tracking & geo-fencing tech platforms are helping farmers sell their produce amidst the lockdown.

The ratings agency explained that private sector is dominated by small doctor-run facilities in terms of number of facilities and number of beds.

Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) recently announced a set of guidelines that will help celebrities to perform due diligence on a product or brand they wish to endorse.

It has been proven that portfolio allocation leads to long-term optimum results on investments. Awareness among investors is gradually increasing on the imperative of allocation.

The Q4FY17 PAT was Rs 150 crore (47% y-o-y), 9% below our estimate. PPOP was 2% below estimate driven by lower NII, offset partially by lower costs.

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail’s (ABFRL) 12.5% y-o-y revenue growth came in line with estimate, while Ebitda spurt of 30.7% and PAT at Rs 21.8 crore surpassed estimates.

Aggregate recast loans worth around Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 49,332 crore) failed at the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell in FY17, taking total failures since the inception of the cell in 2001 to Rs 1.37 lakh crore.

Kotak Mahindra Bank on Thursday reported a surge in its first quarter net profit while maintaining the asset quality.

Bharat Road Network, a road and highways BOT company, has priced its initial public offering (IPO), aimed at raising Rs 600 crore, in a price band of Rs 195-205.

On a similar note, India is trying hard to develop indigenous capacity (Make in India) for machineries and equipment required for, say, new steel capacity augmentation. Otherwise, the large scale of imports of capital goods in the form of machines and equipment for steel plants would have to continue by spending huge foreign exchange and make India import dependent.

Management continues to focus on liquidating Rs 12,300-crore inventory and scaling up the rental portfolio (DCCDL). We maintain earnings estimates for the erstwhile merged entity (despite demerger of DCCDL) awaiting greater clarity on adjustments/reconciliation between DLF and DCCDL numbers (post-demerger).

The production is based on orders received from the customers and hence management is confident that sales despatches would pick up over the next 2-3 quarters, driving an uptick in sales and normalised inventories.

Sugarcane arrears in Maharashtra have now mounted to Rs 5,000 crore and industry sources claim the position is likely to worsen.

Overseas subsidiary performance is expected to turn around which coupled with gradual improvement in domestic margins will enable improvement in the overall margins.

As APHS concludes its capex cycle and loss-making ventures breakeven, the stage is set for APHS to double Ebitda and reduce capex to one-third over FY19–21.

The board had been holding regular workshops with both farmers and buyers to encourage exports, he said, adding that the board had taken huge efforts to ensure that more mango growers register their orchards with MangoNet.

VEDL’s H2FY19 operating numbers were mixed. Key highlights, O&G production fell 2% due to natural decline at Mangla field, though gas volumes were better; production at Zn-India was lower due to geo-technical problems at RA mine and FY19 silver volumes missed 650-700t guidance.

Established in February 2009, Star Union Dai-ichi Life’s (SUD Life) premium income stood at Rs 1,211 crore, while its profit after tax stood at Rs 55 crore during April-December 2018-19.

The concept of modern malls in India has been slow in catching up with the trend of stocking flowers. The trade has been traditionally reserved for road-side vendors.  

India produces 6-7 million tonne raw cashew per annum, and was till recently the leading supplier of kernels to the global markets.

In the next three decades the deregulation of the steel market (abolition of freight equalisation) and imports having been put under open general license led to a paradigm shift to the concepts of supply, capacity creation through differential technologies, SME’s role, demand assessments, competitiveness, pricing and export strategies.

We note the stock price correction of 30% over the past four months offers an attractive entry price and we retain our 'Buy' rating with a DCF-based target price of Rs 400.

While we like the company’s diversified segmental presence, we moderate our order inflow and execution assumptions due to the ongoing economic slowdown and slower traction in railway EPC projects.

A Nielson study has highlighted that OOH enjoys significant advantages over conventional forms of offline advertising

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When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts

To bounce back from the pandemic quickly, India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP that focuses on broad-based development in laggard eastern states.

Leaders should take a decision when they have 40-70% of the information required for taking that decision.

The Centre's fiscal management of the Covid crisis vis-a-vis availability of funds to states might result in creating a coercive, rather than a cooperative federalism.

This trend continues even for local governments, which come to rely more on state transfers to run the administration.

Globally, experts are looking at “excess mortality” or mortality gaps as another measure of the coronavirus death toll. This approach compares the number of deaths during a certain period to the historical average.

Coronavirus is ensuring the trade-off, especially for developing economies is significant, notwithstanding efforts to strike a balance

A case could be made out for including chief ministers' relief funds in the list of entities eligible for corporate CSR funding

Bengal’s handling of the Covid outbreak raises many questions.

The Covid 19 crisis is an opportunity to redefine tax policy and law. A calibrated approach to balance welfare economics with a vision to pioneer economic activity and national growth is needed.