Calcutta: The National Stock Exchange is optimistic that its initial public offer (IPO) will hit the capital market in the current financial year despite delays on account of the ongoing investigation into the co-location case.

"We will get the co-location issues resolved. My hope is we will be able to list in this fiscal," NSE's managing director and CEO Vikram Limaye said on the sidelines of an event of the Indian Chamber of Commerce on Thursday.

Every other day, there are reports that the government is tweaking the Air India sale terms in order to make it attractive for buyers.

However, in doing so, the government essentially appears to be treating the symptoms and not the disease. The main problem with the Air India sale is that nobody will be willing to buy it in its current form.

Punj Lloyd Ltd was referred to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Thursday by ICICI Bank Ltd to recover dues worth 852 crore, sending the construction company’s stock tumbling by more than 11%.

A two-judge NCLT bench, headed by M.M. Kumar, issued a notice to Punj Lloyd, asking it to file a reply to ICICI Bank’s plea.

New Delhi: Shares of India’s biggest IT company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) traded higher on Friday ahead of the company’s decision on share buyback proposal. TCS in a filing with the BSE on Tuesday had informed that its board will consider a proposal for buyback of equity shares at a meeting on Friday. Domestic brokerage Motilal Oswal Securities, which has a neutral rating on TCS shares, anticipates a buyback in the range of Rs20,000 crore.

Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) is on course to have a customer base of 16 million by September, from the current level of 13 million, which also includes the bank’s 811 customers, managing director and CEO Uday Kotak wrote to the bank’s shareholders in its 2017-18 annual report. “On March 29, 2017, while launching 811, we had made a commitment to double our customer base in 18 months, that is, to about 16 million by September 2018,” he said.

A consortium of lenders led by State Bank of India (SBI) has put on sale a 1,200-megawatt (MW) thermal power plant in Tamil Nadu set up by Coastal Energen, according to a bid document.

The outstanding term debt to the plant, as on December 30, 2016, was Rs 6,132.14 crore and the working-capital outstanding, as on March 31, 2017, was Rs 831.53 crore.

NTPC, India’s largest thermal power producer, is planning a power despatch schedule wherein cheaper power will be loaded first.

The move aims to reduce the cost of power for state-owned power distribution companies (discoms) that are facing financial difficulties.

The department of telecommunications (DoT) is likely to approve the merger of Vodafone and Idea Cellular in the next few days, making the combined entity the country’s largest mobile services operator.

Sources said all the wings of the DoT as well as Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan had given a go-ahead to the merger. After signature by Communications Minister Manoj Sinha, the approval document will be sent to the companies.

Reliance Industries (RIL) hit a new high of Rs 1,011.70 up 1% on the BSE in noon deal, surpassing its previous high of Rs 1010.70 recorded on April 27, 2018 in intra-day trade.

In past three weeks, RIL has outperformed the market by surging 10% as compared to 4% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.

After days of combing, the Army finally managed to neutralise two terrorists deep inside the jungles of Panar in north Kashmir's Bandipora district. A soldier was also martyred in the encounter.

The operations started on June 9 when troops were attacked by the terrorists in the forest area. The area was immediately cordoned and operation to flush out the terrorists was launched.

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