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New Delhi: “The flight from India repatriated 106 Vietnamese, 1 Filipino and 29 Laos nationals along with 89 Indian citizens,” the airline said in a statement. “The return flight repatriated 139 Indian nationals from Hanoi and 50 Indian nationals from Vientiane. IndiGo operated these flights while adhering to all the precautionary measures, ensuring a safe and hassle-free travel experience on-board a lean clean flying machine.” According to the airline, the people returning to Vientiane consisted of Indian and foreign expats, students and Buddhist monks. “The repatriated Indian citizens consisted of students, labourers and employees who had lost their job due…

Mumbai: The ratings agency said that the impact of the lockdown on economic activity shows up starkly in the trends in the Central government revenue collection during the first three months of the 2020-21 fiscal. As per the data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA), the Central government’s revenue in Q1 of the current year is much lower than the collections for the corresponding period of last year. As per the data, revenue from income tax (personal income tax and corporate income tax) was lower by 30.5 per cent and the GST (CGST+IGST+UTGST) was lower by almost 34…

The Future Enterprises Ltd. (FEL) has deferred its Board of Directors meeting to September 7. Earlier, the board was scheduled to hold a meeting on Friday for consideration and approval of audited financial results of the Company for the quarter and year ended 31st March, 2020. “We hereby inform you that meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company scheduled to be held today i.e. August 28, 2020 for consideration and approval of audited financial results of the Company for the quarter and year ended 31st March, 2020 (“Financial Results”) stands adjourned due to non-completion of audit process of…

New Delhi: More than 40.35 crore people benefited from the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) which was launched six years ago as a national mission for financial inclusion, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday. The Jan Dhan Yojana, which was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day address in 2014, was launched on August 28, in the same year. “The PMJDY has been the foundation stone for the Modi government’s people-centric economic initiatives. “Whether it is direct benefit transfers, COVID-19 financial assistance, PM-KISAN, increased wages under MGNREGA, life and health insurance cover, the first step…

World’s largest retailer Walmart has reportedly joined tech giant Microsoft to buy short-video sharing app TikTok’s business in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This latest development came hours after TikTok’s chief executive Kevin Mayer left the company after serving for a period of three months. The app has over 100 million users across America. But the ongoing dispute with the Donald Trump administration and the pressure to sell its US operations within 90 days have made things difficult for ByteDance. Microsoft and Walmart are already business partners. The two sides signed a 5-year agreement in 2018. Under the…

Mumbai: Domestic markets continued their bullish run on the back of gains in bank stocks on Friday amid persistent foreign fund inflows. The S&P BSE Sensex ended 353.84 points or 0.90 per cent higher at 39,467.31. It had earlier touched a high of 39,579.58. The NSE Nifty surged 88.35 points or 0.76 per cent to close at 11,647.60. The BSE gainers were led by IndusInd Bank (spurting over 8 per cent) followed by Axis Bank, ICIC Bank, Sun Pharma, SBI and Kotak Bank. Whereas, PowerGrid, Infosys, Maruti, NTPC, Asian Paints, HUL, M&M and Tata Steel were among the laggards. Market…

New Delhi: ICICI Bank on Wednesday said it will sell up to 2 per cent of its holding in ICICI Securities through an open market transaction. “The Board of Directors of the bank, at its meeting held today, approved the sale of up to 6,442,000 equity shares of face value Rs 5 each of ICICI Securities Limited (company), representing up to 2 per cent of its issued and paid-up equity share capital, through an open market sale,” ICICI Bank said in a regulatory filing. The sale is in accordance with the requirement of minimum public float of the company, the…

New Delhi: The government is going to sell 15 per cent of its equity stake in the state-owned aerospace and defence company Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) via an Offer For Sale (OFS) at a floor price of Rs 1,001 per share. The government is expected to raise about Rs 5,000 crore from the sale offer on August 27-28. An IANS report quoted a company official as saying, “The Defence Ministry has notified the stock exchanges in the evening on selling 15 per cent of its equity stake (5.01-crore shares) in the company at Rs 1,001 per share of Rs 10…

New Delhi: Bank of India (BOI) on Wednesday said it plans to raise capital through issuance of bonds and shares up to an amount 16,000 crore. The state-run entity seek shareholders’ approval at its Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on September 19, the lender said in a regulatory filing. The bank said it plans to issue fresh equity shares up to an amount of Rs 8,000 crore in such a way that the government’s shareholding does not fall below 51 per cent. It will also seek approval for issuing perpetual debt instruments, including non-convertible debentures (NCDs), for an amount not exceeding…

New Delhi: Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, on Thursday said it has signed a five-year partnership deal with cloud customer experience and contact centre solutions provider, Genesys. The partnership enables both companies to develop and deploy innovation and best-in-class solutions in the customer experience market, a issued by the company said. “As a part of the partnership, Infosys will bring to market Genesys contact center solutions. Clients of both organisations stand to benefit from the enhanced capability that will come from a combined investment in innovation, a broader ecosystem of strategic partners and a shared…

New Delhi: Alibaba which has fuelled the growth of several Indian start-ups, will not put in fresh funds to expand its investments in the country for at least six months, the sources said. However, there are no plans to reduce its stakes or exit investments, they added. The sources declined to be identified as the talks are private. Alibaba did not respond to a request for comment. The Chinese conglomerate and its affiliates Alibaba Capital Partners and Ant Group have invested more than $2 billion in Indian companies since 2015 and participated in funding rounds of at least another $1.8…

Mumbai: Sony is closing in on Viacom 18 which would see Sony emerge as a formidable player in the Indian general entertainment channels (GEC) space. Sources said the two sides have agreed and the deal which has seen protracted negotiations is close to being finalised. The contours being discussed indicate that Sony is likely to own the lion’s share after a merger with Viacom 18, setting the stage for a battle for Indian TV audiences in the general entertainment channels (GEC) market with Disney-Star. Viacom 18 is a 51:49 JV between Reliance owned Network 18 and Viacom. There has been…

New Delhi: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the coronavirus pandemic has hit the economy bad as the goods and services (GST) collection has the shortfall of Rs 2.35 lakh crore for fiscal 2021. The minister told that the centre has released over Rs 1.65 lakh crore as GST compensation to states for fiscal 2020, including Rs 13,806 crore for March. “Compensation gap which has arisen this year (expected to be Rs 2.35 lakh crore). This shortfall is due to Covid-19 as well. Shortfall in compensation due to implementation of GST has been estimated to be Rs…

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday indicated further cuts in interest rates, said that measures taken to save the economy from the covid-19 epidemic will not be removed soon. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said in a program that whether rate cuts or other policy steps, the arrows of our quiver are not over yet. He said that the banking system of the country is strong and stable. Even in this era of corona virus epidemic, the banking system of India has retained its capacity. The Reserve Bank did not change the repo rates in the policy…

Mumbai: The stock markets closed with a slight uptrend on Thursday. The Sensex gained 39.55 points to 39,113.47 and the Nifty gained only 9.65 points to end at 11,559.25. IndusInd Bank shares were the biggest gainers on the Sensex at 6.59 per cent after the close of business. Apart from this, Mahindra & Mahindra, SBI, Axis Bank, HDFC, Sun Pharma and Maruti were also in the top gainers. On the other hand, shares of Kotak Mahindra, Reliance, Bajaj Auto and ONGC lost more than 1 percent. The stock market opened up on Thursday morning. The BSE Sensex opened with a…

New Delhi: Kevin Meyer, chief executive officer (CEO) of Chinese video sharing app TikTok has resigned. Meyer left the company within three months. In his place, Vanessa Pappas, the company’s general manager in America, has been appointed as the interim CEO of TikTok. The company sued the Trump administration after President Trump signed an executive order banning TikTok’s transactions in the US. After this development, now Kevin Mayer has announced his resignation. The new executive order of the Trump administration states that if TikTok is to continue business in the US, they must sell it within 90 days and delete…

New Delhi: Future Retail has averted a default as it repaid the interest worth around $14 million (around Rs 100 crore) on its $500 million ( around 3,700 crore) foreign bonds to investors. “In furtherance to our letter dated 22 July 2020, wherein we had informed about the grace period of 30 days for making payment of interest on above USD Notes; today we are pleased to inform that the company has made the payment of said interest for the half-year for an amount of $14 million on above USD Notes,” Future Retail said in a filing to the stock…

Moody’s Investors Service on Tuesday affirmed the long-term local and foreign currency deposit ratings of State Bank of India (SBI) at ‘Baa3’ while downgrading SBI’s BCA to ‘ba2’ from ‘ba1’. Moody’s view that the bank’s asset quality and profitability will deteriorate on account of concern on asset quality due to moratorium therefore the rating agency downgraded SBI’s Baseline Credit Assessment (BCA). It is to be noted, ‘Baa’ rating indicates moderate credit risk and ‘ba’ indicates substantial credit risk. “As a result, Moody’s has also downgraded SBI’s foreign currency preferred stock non-cumulative MTN (medium term note) program rating to (P)B2 from…

New Delhi: Setting the stage for a major expansion amid the pandemic, leading digital payments service Paytm on Wednesday said it is in the process of hiring over 1,000 engineers, data scientists, financial analysts among other positions for tech and non-tech roles. Paytm in April announced to hire over 500 people for multiple roles, aside from continued hiring in product and technology and the current move is to ramp up recruitments for expanding its financial and wealth management services. Other than tech and non-tech hires to fill positions across its operations in New Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), Mumbai and…

The Cupertino giant has been busy in India making a lot of advancements in the country, from assembling iPhone SE (2020) in India or declaring its plans to begin production of the upcoming iPhone 12 series in the country next year. according to report, There have been plans by Apple to launch an online store in India, however, it has not been able to do so for a long time. Now, after a lot of government support and initiative, Apple will finally be launching its own online store as fast as next month. Till now, Apple had to rely on…