Engineering major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Monday mounted a hostile takeover bid for Bengaluru-headquartered Mindtree, with a multipronged strategy to buy around a 67 per cent controlling stake in the IT company for about Rs 10,733 crore.

As the first step, L&T entered into a deal to purchase the 20.32 per cent stake of Mindtree’s single-largest investor, V G Siddhartha, at Rs 980 per share in an all-cash transaction, which translates into Rs 3,269 crore.

The deal between the two Ambani brothers, Anil and Mukesh, has fallen through as Reliance Communi­cations (RCom) and Reliance Jio agreed to terminate the asset-sale agreement on Monday. RCom has cited delays in approval from the government and lenders as the reason.

With an aim to consider extension of timeline for raising funds, State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said that the central board will meet later this week to consider extension of approval accorded by it for raising equity capital of up to Rs 20,000 crore from the market till end of FY20.

“A meeting of the central board of the bank is scheduled to be held on March 22, 2019 to consider inter alia the extension of approval accorded by central board for raising equity capital of up to Rs 20,000 crore from the market till March 31, 2020,” SBI said in an exchange filing.

Ericsson has received Rs 462 crore from Indian telecoms firm Reliance Communications Ltd (RCom), the Swedish company said on Monday, potentially saving billionaire Anil Ambani and two RCom directors from a jail term.

Late last month, India's top court found Anil Ambani, chairman of the debt-laden firm, guilty of contempt of court for wilfully failing to pay the Swedish telecom equipment maker.

General insurers registered 23 per cent growth in their premium at Rs 12,959.44 crore in February, data from Irdai showed Monday.

The gross premium collected by all the 34 insurers in the general sector stood at Rs 10,573.70 crore during the same month a year ago.

MUMBAI: Creditors to Essar Steel are weighing three options, one of which might be put before an appellate bankruptcy court on Monday, as they seek to draw to a close the insolvency proceedings that have dragged on for about two years.

The options include asking ArcelorMittal to pay up the whole amount and keep the contentious payments to operational creditors in an escrow account or just comply with the suggestions made by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in the last hearing on Friday.

MUMBAI: HDFC Bank, which breached the Rs 6 lakh-crore market capitalisation threshold last week and ranks in the list of the planet’s most expensive lenders, provides investors an opportunity to buy into the stock now because of its increasingly low-cost liabilities, robust asset quality, and stable margins.

WhatsApp, a Facebook-owned instant messaging platform, has partnered with the social arm of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) to deliver digital literacy training. Aiming to curb fake news, propaganda and misinformation menace on its platform, the training is estimated to reach approximately 1,00,000 people before the Lok Sabha Elections 2019.

Mumbai: Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro Ltd would spend up to 70 billion rupees (USD 1.02 billion) in a hostile bid to buy IT services company Mindtree Ltd, the Times of India (TOI) reported citing sources directly involved with the matter.

L&T will buy out Mindtree’s largest shareholder VG Siddhartha and companies in which he is a promoter, following which an open offer will be sent to the public shareholders of Mindtree, according to the report published on Monday.

Indian Oil Corp hopes to restart a 150,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) crude distillation unit (CDU) at its Panipat refinery in the next 2-3 days, its head of refineries said on Monday, days after the unit caught fire due to a naphtha leak.

IOC, the country’s top refiner, had shut the CDU and some other secondary units at the 300,000-bpd refinery in the northern state of Haryana for about a month from mid-February for routine maintenance.

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