New Delhi: The National Highways Authority of India’s (NHAI’s) plan to float infrastructure investment trusts, or InvITs, to raise money from the market for its ambitious Rs5.97 trillion Bharatmala project has been halted in its tracks by the finance ministry.

The authority has been asked to wait till other central public sector enterprises (CPSE) issue their InvITs.

Cash is king, while debt puts you in a bind. Ask Idea Cellular Ltd, perhaps the most leveraged company among India’s surviving telcos. It’s in a catch-22 situation with the decision to monetize its 11.15% stake in Indus Towers Ltd.

Idea has been given two options for its stake in the proposed merger between Indus and Bharti Infratel Ltd. It can exchange it for shares in the combined entity, but this won’t address its high debt levels.

Benchmark BSE Sensex rebounded over 57 points in early trade on Thursday on sustained buying by domestic institutional investors amid mixed trend in other Asian bourses.

Short-covering of bets on Thursday being the last session of April expiry in the derivatives segment supported the recovery.

Singapore Airlines is set to launch the world’s first non-stop flight with almost 20 hours in the air, by the end of this year, the media reported on Thursday.

Singapore Airlines’ newest plane, the Airbus A350-900ULR — for Ultra Long-Range — will travel on a record-breaking, globe-spanning flight that will connect Singapore to New York, reports CNN,

Wipro share price target: Following weak Q4 results reported by India’s third largest software services exporter, brokerages have reduced Wipro share price target. The Bengaluru-headquartered company has reported a 20/3% drop in net profit to Rs 1,803 crore in the three months ended 31 March, missing street estimates. Analysts had expected the company to post a profit of Rs 2,132 crore, according to Thomson Reuters data.

In a re-jigging of its store network, Reliance Retail has shut around 100 Reliance Fresh stores over the past two years or so, with the shutters having been downed for 20 of them in the past 12 months. The move, coupled with new stores in more attractive catchment areas, should help arrest losses.

India’s adoption of Jan Dhan scheme as well as biometric Aadhaar cards-based account opening has led to a massive shrinkage of the gender gap in financial inclusion, the World Bank said in a report released late Thursday night. The Global Findex database collects data from across the world on how adults save, borrow, transact, and interact in the financial system.

Incessant changes to the goods and services tax (GST) rules, also affecting refunds, and procedural issues affect export from special economic zones (SEZs). The Export Promotion Council for Export Oriented Units & Special Economic Zones (EPCES) has listed a number of persisting procedural and regulatory obstacles.

“There have been a staggering 367 changes to the GST rules till April 15, since the new tax structure came into being last year,” EPCES Chairman Vinay Sharma said.

Tata Motors, the market leader in commercial vehicles (CVs), would have exited 2017-18 with higher volumes and market share save for the capacity constrains it faced in the medium and commercial vehicle segment, Guenter Butschek, chief executive officer and managing director, said on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Reliance Communications one week to pay Rs 774.19 crore towards deferred spectrum liabilities.

A bench led by Justice AK Goel gave RCom time till May 2 to pay its liability while disposing of the telecom firm’s two appeals challenging the TDSAT’s April 19 judgments that had refused to grant additional time to make the payment.

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