New Delhi: The football World Cup has kicked off a boom in television sales in India, a country that has never participated in the world’s most-watched sports event. TV sales in India, which have been growing at a stable annual pace of 6% a year, have seen a sudden spurt ahead of the World Cup with Sony, Samsung and Xiaomi expecting sales to continue to be brisk throughout the duration of the month-long event, particularly in markets such as West Bengal, Kerala and the Northeast.

Bengaluru: One97 Communications Ltd which owns payments app Paytm on Tuesday announced the acquisition of New Delhi-based technology start-up Cube26. The transaction size was not disclosed.

A Paytm statement said the acquisition will help the company upgrade user experience over its mobile platform.

Axis Bank, the country’s third-largest private bank by assets, on Monday raised marginal cost of funds-based lending rates (MCLRs) by 10 basis points (bps) across tenures, following similar hikes by its peers earlier this month. The one-year MCLR at the bank now stands at 8.6%. This is the fourth rate hike by the lender in calendar year 2018.

Mumbai: Madrid-based developer of large-scale solar power plants, Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV), is in talks to sell its 100-MW power project in India in a deal worth Rs 500-600 crore, according to two people aware of the development.

FRV is talking with various investors such as Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), green infra JV between PE fund Everstone Group & UK-based Lightsource BP’s Eversource Capital and Edelweiss Infrastructure Yield Plus Fund, said one of the persons cited above.

Benchmark Sensex declined by over 148 points in early trade today, tracking a weak trend in global markets as the trade spat between the US and China intensified. Unabated capital outflows by foreign funds and profit-booking by retail investors too dampened sentiment. The 30-share index, which had lost 73.88 points in the previous session, drifted down by 148.34 points, or 0.42%, to 35,399.92.The NSE Nifty too was quoting lower by 52.55 points, or 0.49%, at 10,747.30.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has become the richest man in the world with a net wealth of $141.9 billion, the Forbes World's Billionaires list showed on Monday.

Bezos' wealth has grown more than $5 billion since June 1 to beat Bill Gates, the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation, who is the second-richest man in the world with $92.9 billion.

The Maharashtra government’s decision in March to partially ban the use of plastic has put the country’s largest polymer producer in recycle mode. The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) is now creating a platform for recycling, building a corpus and setting up a full-fledged sustainability team.

The board of ICICI Bank has appointed Sandeep Bakhshi whole-time director and chief operating officer (COO) to run the affairs of the private lender. Chanda Kochhar, managing director (MD) & chief executive officer (CEO) will be on leave, pending the probe.

The changes come amid allegations of a quid pro quo in transactions between Videocon Industries, Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar’s company NuPower Renewables.

Mumbai: HDFC Bank Ltd, the world’s most expensive major lender, is considering relying entirely on the Indian market for a share sale that could raise as much as Rs 15,500 crore ($2.3 billion), people with knowledge of the matter said.

The Mumbai-based bank is weighing seeking all the capital through a qualified institutional placement in India, rather than its usual practice of splitting the fund-raising between an offering of local stock and a sale of American depositary receipts, according to the people.

New Delhi: The Salman Khan box office charm shows no sign of fading. The actor’s latest festival release Race 3 crossed the Rs 100 crore mark over its opening weekend, making Rs 106.47 crore in domestic box office collections. The action thriller has emerged as the second highest opening weekend earner of the year so far after period saga Padmaavat that had made Rs 114 crore, but it had a five-day extended weekend compared to Race 3’s three days.

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