Ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s board meeting on Monday, State Bank of India chairman Rajnish Kumar on Thursday said there was “no liquidity crisis” and that NBFCs are meeting their commitments as far as rollovers are concerned.

“All of them have been able to rollover and meet their commitments,” Kumar said on the sidelines of an event here.

The huge debt of around Rs 1,12,500 crore of Vodafone Idea will leave little for capex and market-capturing strategies, even though the management is infusing some Rs 25,000 crore of equity.

Analysts at JPMorgan wrote on Thursday that Vodafone Idea “does not appear to be in a position to fund even basic capex, given the burdensome leverage”.

Microsoft has announced to acquire a conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and bot development company XOXCO for an undisclosed sum.

Texas-based XOXCO has been paving the way in conversational AI since 2013 and was responsible for the creation of Howdy, the first commercially available bot for Slack that helps schedule meetings.

Essar Steel Asia Holdings (ESAH), the holding company of Essar Steel, has approached the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) asking it be allowed to plead its case before any orders are passed. ESAH has filed a caveat petition in the NCLT Ahmedabad bench which has been hearing the insolvency case against the debt-laden company.

Almost nine years after the launch of the first Sharia-compliant investment fund in India, the alternative investment funds based on the tenets of the Islamic banking are yet to take off in the country.

While Islamic banking is not permitted by law, people are free to raise or invest in Sebi-registered venture capital funds (VCF) that are in compliance with Islamic finance rules.

The rupee firmed 10 paise to 71.87 against the US dollar Friday on increased selling of the US currency by exporters and banks.

Besides, weakness in the greenback against some currencies overseas, increased foreign fund inflows and a higher opening of domestic equities supported the rupee, traders said.

Paytm’s domestic parent company One97 Communications on Thursday introduced a “Social Community Platform” exclusively for women as an interactive social feed, in partnership with an online womens community — “Sheroes”. This is an interactive social feed where women can engage on topics including health, careers, relationships, cooking and hobbies while sharing their life stories, achievements and moments with fellow women, the company said in a statement.

State-run energy major Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has informed the Ministry of Finance that it may defer the interim dividend plan for the current financial year 2018-19, as it can either pay interim dividend or buy back government shares in the company, but not the both as it needs some time to build a corpus for the payout, The Indian Express reported.

MUMBAI: It has been a classic case for the Indian passenger vehicle market in the last 5-7 years: if Maruti Suzuki sneezes, the market catches a cold.

So, the overall Indian passenger vehicle market fell into negative category in the quarter ended September with sales falling 3.6% year-on-year to 870,804 when Maruti Suzuki sales dropped 1% to 449,834.

MUMBAI: Loss-making national carrier Air India plans to mop up Rs 700-800 crore by selling over 70 residential and commercial properties spread across the country, a senior airline official said Thursday.

This fresh bid is a part of the airline's real estate assets monetisation plan approved by the then UPA government in 2012.

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