Mumbai: Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty started on a volatile note Wednesday as investors turned jittery on weak domestic and global cues amid continued foreign fund outflow.

After swinging nearly 200 points in the first half hour of the session, the 30-share index was trading 29.49 points, or 0.07 per cent, higher at 39,845.97 at 0945 hours. Similarly, the broader Nifty was quoting 6.60 points, or 0.05 per cent, up at 11,916.90.

New Delhi: Digital payment firm Paytm and Chinese internet firm Tencent may invest up to USD 125 million (nearly Rs 860 crore) in Times Internet's online video streaming platform MX Player this month against purchase of equity.

"Tencent and Paytm are planning to invest USD 100-125 million in MX Player against purchase of equity. The investment is expected to be happen this month," sources privy to the discussion among the three companies told PTI.

New Delhi: Construction major Larsen & Toubro, which holds over 60 per cent stake in Mindtree, said on Tuesday it has made payments to shareholders who tendered their shares successfully in the recently-concluded open offer.

Amazon.com Inc. is set to hire more than 2,000 workers in the U.K., including engineers, software developers and data scientists, to develop its latest technology ventures.

The Seattle-based tech giant’s U.K. workforce will total almost 30,000 people by the end of the year, and will include cloud and machine learning experts, corporate roles and fulfillment and delivery workers, the company said Wednesday in a statement.

NEW DELHI: Three days after presentation of the union budget in Parliament, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will address Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) central board of directors in a customary post-budget meeting on July 8.

ANI reported that issues related to the overall economy and fiscal policy decisions taken by the government will be taken up during the meeting.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the Department of Telecommunications’ appeal against a Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) order that held that liabilities of past dues related to spectrum usage charges (SUC) rested only with Reliance Communications (the seller) and not the buyer of its 800 MHz spectrum, which then was Reliance Jio Infocomm.

While Reliance Jio is becoming a mass market player with its prepaid tariffs almost a third of those offered by incumbents, Vodafone Idea (VIL) and Bharti Airtel have their focus on higher-Arpu (average revenue per user) customers, and it shows in the premium charged in postpaid tariffs compared to that of Jio’s. With this, the segmentation of telecom subscribers in India is becoming clearer now as telcos seem to have fixed their allegiance to their respective customer bases.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde was on Tuesday nominated as the president of the European Central Bank, following which she announced to temporarily relinquish her responsibilities as head of IMF.

The nomination means Lagarde will step down two years before the end of her second five-year term at the helm of the IMF.

A day after 36 people died in Maharashtra owing to incessant rains, the death toll is feared to increase sharply as a small dam got breached in Ratnagiri district of the state. So far six people have died in the incident.

Small dam called Tiwari in Tehsil Chiplun of Ratnagiri district was breached causing floodlike situation in 7 downstream villages.

Aiming to revive loss-making telecom companies BSNL and MTNL, the telecom ministry has proposed a plan comprising an early retirement of staff, capital infusion and monetisation of assets to keep them afloat in a highly competitive market.

An in-principle approval for a potential merger of the two state-run companies is also part of the proposals, according to a senior official from the ministry.

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