Mumbai: Essar Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Ltd is planning to sell as much as 30% in its flagship coal-bed methane (CBM) block in Raniganj, West Bengal, said two people familiar with the development. Essar Oil, which completed the $12.9 billion sale of its refining and distribution business to a consortium led by Russia’s Rosneft PJSC last August, operates the coal-based methane business and a refinery in the UK.

While the headline numbers suggest earnings season has got off to a good start the headline numbers mask the favourable base effect, the many one-offs and several accounting changes. Nonetheless, corporate India has done reasonably well in the three months to June rebounding smartly — as the increased volumes show — from the weak Q1FY18 which was the pre-GST quarter.

While anecdotal and empirical evidence both confirm online shopping is becoming more popular, e-commerce businesses continue to bleed because consumers need to be pampered with discounts, report Anushree Bhattacharyya in New Delhi. The many rounds of sales that e-retailers launch during the year are a sign it is not easy to convince consumers to buy.

The benchmark BSE Sensex on Monday opened at an all-time high of 37,491 points while Nifty20 traded above the 11,300 mark. At 9.40 AM, Sensex was at 37,413.15 points, up by 76.30 or 0.20 per cent and Nifty was at 11,302.10 points, up by 23.75 or 0.21 per cent.

In a bid to increase the services it provides via its virtual assistant, Alexa, in tune with the demands of Indian customers, e-commerce Amazon has led an $11-million investment round in Shuttl, a Gurugram-based urban mobility start-up backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures and others.

The round was led by Amazon, in connection with the Amazon Alexa Fund and Dentsu Ventures, along with existing investors.

With Life Insurance Corporation and ICICI Bank insisting on exiting Indian Highways Management Company Ltd (IHMCL), the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to wind up the company, constituted five years ago to carry out electronic tolling and other ancillary works for it.

These institutions, along with State Bank of India, hold 24.81 per cent stake in the company but do not see enough return from it.

A day after some people claimed to have accessed personal details of Trai Chairman R S Sharma after he disclosed his Aadhaar number on Twitter, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has denied that the details were fetched from its servers or Aadhaar database.

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.

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