Author: Finance Khabar

New Delhi: This cricketing season — ongoing IPL 2020 — a new report from Swiggy shows that IPL Customized menus, especially combo’s such as barbeque flavoured ones worked extremely well. Over 31,800 restaurants have customised their menu for consumers and over one lakh orders were placed for such items. According to the platform, top three cities that saw maximum orders during match days were Bengaluru, Mumbai and Chennai. Top 10 dishes ordered during IPL across the country were chicken biryani, butter naan, masala dosa, paneer butter masala chicken fried rice, tandoori roti, veg fried rice, mutton biryani, garlic bread sticks…

Kolkata: Hurun India and EdelGive today released the seventh edition of EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020. Azim Premji & family, the Founder-Chairman of Wipro topped the 2020 list, while Shiv Nadar, Founder-Chairman of HCL Technologies, ranked second; followed by richest Indian Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries at the third spot. The fourth spot was earned by Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group followed by Anil Agarwal, Chairman, Vedanta Group at the 5th spot. The 2020 EdelGive Hurun Philanthropy List showcases 112 people, up 12% against the 2019 edition. Mumbai topped the preferred city of residence for top philanthropists…

The shares of Yes Bank have started an upper circuit today. Yes Bank shares rose 5 per cent in today’s trading to Rs 13.50. The stock had closed at Rs 12.90 on Monday. Rating agency CARE has increased the rating of Yes Bank’s debt instruments. After which, the sentiment of investors has become positive regarding the stock. CARE has revised the Bank’s Infrastructure Bond rating from ‘CARE B’ to ‘CARE BBB’. Yes Bank’s 1-year high is Rs 87.30. CARE has upgraded the ratings of Yes Bank’s infrastructure bonds from CARE B to CARE BBB. Similar upgrades have been received from…

New Delhi: On BSE, the stock closed 6.41 per cent lower at Rs 14.60 after tanking 8.97 per cent to Rs 14.20 during the day. On the NSE, it plunged 6.73 per cent to close at Rs 14.55. In traded volume terms, 4.83 lakh shares were traded at the BSE and over 38 lakh units at the NSE during the day Private sector Lakshmi Vilas Bank on Saturday reported widening of its net loss at Rs 397 crore for the second quarter due to rise in bad loans and provisions. The bank had posted a net loss of Rs 357.18…

New Delhi:The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered a detailed investigation against Internet giant Google for unfair trade practices in the context of Google Pay. Google Pay is a popular digital wallet platform. The watchdog has ordered a detailed probe by its Director General (DG), which is the investigation arm, for alleged anti-competitive practices with respect to Google Pay. Section 4 of the Competition Act pertains to abuse of dominant market position. The Commission is of the prima facie view that the market for apps facilitating payment through the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) appears to be a distinct relevant…

New Delhi: The initial public offer (IPO) is entirely an offer-for-sale through which the government will offload 8.66 crore equity shares, according to draft papers filed with Sebi. The company, which filed its IPO papers in October, obtained the regulator”s observation on November 6, an update with Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) showed on Monday. The regulator”s observation is necessary for any company to launch public issues like initial public offering, follow-on public offer and rights issue. According to merchant banking sources, the IPO is estimated to fetch Rs 700 crore. The miniratna PSU is one of the…

New Delhi: The CV major, which reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 96.23 crore in the second quarter ended September, has kept its capex plans intact for the current fiscal. “In the first quarter, we came across a one of its kind situation, everything was shut. As things have started to open up, we have seen things becoming better. Looking at the situation, all indications point out that things will move up in the third and the fourth quarter,” Ashok Leyland CFO Gopal Mahadevan told PTI. The CV industry saw sales falling 75 per cent in April-September period of…

Hyderabad: In an effort to help digitise the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Telangana, the state government has launched a free license of next generation cloud-based business automation software called ’ Accloud ’ to 20,000 companies here on Monday. Sapio Analytics, a government consulting firm, brings the software to the companies, while the distribution platform is that of Telangana GlobalLinker, a platform and community for the state’s MSMEs. The total market value of the licenses distributed free of charge by the state to the business community amounts to 72 million. Speaking after launching the free software distribution virtually,…

New Delhi: “He brings three decades of diverse experience in air transport and travel, with leadership roles in Air India, Alliance Air and a Gulf-based national carrier,” according to a statement by Air India Express. Air India Express is a wholly-owned subsidiary of disinvestment-bound Air India. Before taking on the current assignment at Air India Express, Singh was associated with an aviation consulting firm CAPA in Delhi. Air India Express has around 24 B737-800 aircraft in its fleet.

Amidst strong global cues, the domestic stock market has witnessed fierce fireworks before Diwali. Sensex and Nifty reached record highs in today’s business. At the end of the business, both of the indices slipped slightly from their index highs, but they have recorded a close. At the end of trading, the Sensex saw a rise of 704 points and it was at the level of 42597. At the same time, the Nifty gained 197 points and closed at the level of 12461. Earlier the market was never closed at this high. Today the Sensex touched a record level of 42645.…

Mumbai: Equitas Small Finance Bank on Monday said that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has lifted the restrictions imposed on the bank, including on opening of new branches. The Central bank had also directed a freeze on the remuneration of the MD and CEO of the bank at the level that existed on September 6, 2019, which has now been withdrawn. The restrictions were removed after Equitas Small Finance Bank got listed on exchanges earlier in the month. “We accede to your request for lifting the following regulatory restrictions imposed on Equitas Small Finance Bank Limited (ESFB) vide our…

Tokyo: The Tokyo-based company reported a 627 billion yen, or about USD 6.1 billion, profit in July-September, compared with a loss of 700 billion yen in the same quarter of 2019. SoftBank said its quarterly sales rose nearly 5 per cent to 1.35 trillion yen, or USD 13 billion, from 1.29 trillion yen. SoftBank’s Vision Fund also has become profitable recently. SoftBank, which invests in an array of companies, has sold US carrier Sprint, as well as British IoT company Arm. It has also sold some its stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba to raise cash for more investments. Sprint…

New Delhi: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) in November 2018 had directed the company and its directors to refund investors’ money along with interest. Rainbow Industries had raised Rs 11.36 crore through redeemable preference shares (RPS) from investors without complying with public issue norms. Rainbow issued RPS to 5,379 persons amounting to Rs 6 crore during 2011-12. For the period 2012-13, it allotted RPS worth Rs 5.36 crore to 4,673 persons. In an attachment notice issued on Friday, Sebi asked banks and depositories not to allow any debit from the accounts of Rainbow Industries and its directors…

It was in 2016 that Modi government announced demonetisation in order to remove black money and corruption from the country. However, a report says that cash usage is still huge and majorly used for buying groceries and making payments to domestic staff. A community social network LocalCircles conducted a survey which said that top categories of purchases for which people of the country paid the most amount in cash without a receipt were groceries (for 39 per cent respondents) and salaries for domestic staff (for 31 per cent out of the 15,376 respondents) in the last 12 months. Modi government…

The beneficiaries of the Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana can now feel relaxed as the Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) has announced something huge. Yes, you now no longer need to submit the claim on an Affidavit form under the scheme. The Ministry of Labour and Employment said in a statement that the ESIC has postponed the scheme of Atal Beemit Vyakti Kalyan Yojana from July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021. One more interesting news is that the rate of relief under the scheme will be increased from the current 25 per cent of the average daily earning to…

India’s consumer Internet space with start-ups are raising funds from investors in the last 10 months and the investments have reached close to $5 billion, says a report. Data collected from the market research firm Tracxn says that it is a good 42% lower than the amount raised in the same period in 2019. Industry experts are positive with the given disruption occured due to the pandemic. The startup industry enjoying good continuation of investments include sectors such as Ed-tech, gaming, food delivery and e-grocery despite the extended lockdown. Byju’s has grown up by $1 billion, taking its valuation to…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced recently that the Ministry of Shipping is going to be expanded and renamed as the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways. The announcement was made at the launch of a Ro-Pax ferry service between Hazira in Surat and Ghogha in Bhavnagar district of Gujarat. The ferry service aims to reduce the 370-km road distance between the two places to 90-km by sea route. The service will also reduce the travel time between the two locations to about four hours from 10 to 12 hours. Modi said the efforts are being made to ensure that the…

For the people who are not much into finance or commerce would know the only definition of mutual funds is the ad that says ‘Mutual funds are subject to market risks’. So, here are some basic understanding of mutual funds beyond what you heard in the television advertisement so far. A Mutual Fund is the amount of money that is invested by a large number of people, also called as investors. The fund is taken care by a professional fund manager. A number of investors come together and invest their money in an organization to share common investment goal. The…

With India’s workforce being subject to pay cuts and massive layoffs in the last 6 months, with over 10.8 million jobs lost as per research by a leading web portal , the need for careful financial planning is ever apparent. Thankfully, in many sectors, the economy is picking up, salary hikes are a reality, and employers are looking to offer a Diwali bonus this year. This Diwali, one should consider investing for their future in an instrument like the Bajaj Finance Fixed Deposit instead. With FD interest rates running up to 6.85%, investing in this FD would help one get…

New Delhi: There has been a steep decline in liquor sales during the Corona period. In the first quarter of the current fiscal, liquor sales have fallen by 29 per cent. Everything remained closed during the tight lockdown for the first two months. The sale of liquor was then allowed, although state governments imposed corona cess. Corona Cess is very high in many states due to which prices went up and sales decreased. This information has been given by CIABC. The CIABC report said that sales in states such as Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Rajasthan have been affected more…