New Delhi: State-run NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power generator, said on Saturday that fiscal first-quarter net profit dipped 1.14% from a year earlier period, even as it benefited from higher electricity output and improved efficiency.

The utility registered a net profit of 2,588.14 crore for the quarter ended June as compared to 2,618.17 crore posted for the corresponding period last fiscal on account of other income such as interest payment received.

Public sector lender Bank of Baroda's net profit more than doubled to Rs 5.28 billion in the first quarter ended June, 2018, on improvement in its interest margin. The stabilisation of asset quality leading to a fall in provisions for bad loans also helped the bank report a robust growth in net profit.

Vijay Mallya's Force India Formula One team has been put into administration after a court hearing in London on Friday, deputy principal Bob Fernley said.

"An administrator was appointed by the court for Force India F1 this evening," he confirmed to Reuters.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) said it will launch an electric SUV by H2 2019 under the CKD format. The company hinted that it may look out for collaboration with like-minded partners, as the cost in developing an EV in India will be high and hence collaboration.

Paytm is on a major global expansion drive. After launching its wallet in Japan, sources said Paytm is planning to make an entry into Europe. However, things are at a nascent stage and plans of entering Europe might not kick off before next year. After gaining 300 million mobile wallet users in India, the firm has now expanded operations to Japan via PayPay Corporation, a joint venture established by SoftBank Corp and Yahoo Japan Corporation.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) posted a 17.9 per cent year-on-year growth in its June 2018 quarter (Q1) net profit (excluding exceptional items) on the back of robust performance of its petrochemicals (petchem) operations as well as strong show in the retail and telecom businesses.

For the April-June 2018 quarter, RIL posted a net profit of Rs 94.59 billion compared to Rs 91.08 billion reported in the year-ago quarter, which is a rise of 3.9 per cent.

Reliance Industry's telecom arm Jio Infocomm reported a net profit of Rs 6.1 billion for April-June quarter, a rise of 20 per cent from Rs 5.1 billion during the year-ago period. The average revenue per user (ARPU), however, fell marginally to Rs 134.5 (from Rs 137 last quarter), but continued to be higher than the industry average.

Riding on its growing AWS Cloud and advertising portfolio, Amazon posted a record profit of $2.5 billion (or $5.07 per diluted share) in the second quarter of 2018 -- an impressive jump from the $197 million (or $0.40 per diluted share) it posted in the same period last year.

Revenue grew 39 per cent year-over-year to $52.89 per cent while operating cash flow increased 22 per cent to $21.8 billion. The second quarter sales went up 39 per cent to $52.9 billion.

ITC Ltd may consider the acquisition of GSK-owned Horlicks brand in India, provided its valuation is right. The bid is expected to be opened next month. However, ITC is not interested in the Complan brand of health drinks from Kraft Heinz.

It is suggested that in case of a takeover of this brand, the acquirer may also have to take over several other brands like prickly heat powder Nycil and glucose drink Glucon D.

The US bankruptcy court has asked Nirav Modi and two of his aides — Mihir Bhansali and Rakhi Bhansali — to appear before it after Punjab National Bank (PNB) and the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) filed petitions to this effect.

Mihir was head of the US arm of Firestar Diamond and Rakhi was a director in the firm. PNB and MCA had filed a petition to issue subpoena or witness summons in the court.

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