New Delhi, Nov 21 German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz is driving towards India's smaller cities and towns to tap potential customers with an eye on tightening its grip on the country's premium automotive segment.

The company through its 'Brand Tour' covering 12 locations in India is seeking to offer 'Mercedes-Benz experience' to prospective buyers in Tier II and Tier III cities, where it doesn't have a direct presence.

Private sector lender YES Bank has raised $400 million in syndicated loans from lenders in Taiwan and Japan for on-lending to clients.

It exercised a greenshoe option to raise $250 million in a five-year commercial loan from 17 Taiwanese banks, a statement said. In Japan, it raised JPY 16.5 billion or $150 million from eight lenders in a one-year loan in a maiden transaction.

Shares of Reliance Communications soared over 14 per cent on Tuesday amid reports that lenders of the debt ridden firm have approved the sale of its real estate assets in Delhi and Chennai to a Canada-based company.

The stock surged 14.10 per cent to Rs 13.75 on BSE.

On NSE, shares of the company zoomed 14.10 per cent to Rs 13.75.

The overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation ONGC Videsh will acquire 15 percent stake in offshore Namibia block from Tullow Oil.

OVL executed the deal through its subsidiary ONGC Videsh Vankorneft Pte Ltd,

ONGC Videsh (OVL) has signed definitive binding agreements with Tullow Namibia Ltd (Tullow), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tullow Oil plc, for acquiring 15 per cent participating interest in Namibia Petroleum Exploration License 0030 for Block 2012A and related agreements (License) from Tullow’s existing participating interest of 25% in the License, the company said in a statement.

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has formed a committee to hear cases of firms (and their directors) that have complained that they have been classified as shell companies because of technical errors, said two people with direct knowledge.

The panel will be a sub-committee of the capital market regulator’s secondary market and advisory committee (SMAC).

The Sensex struck a positive note today by jumping 154 points, in keeping with firm Asian shares.

Fresh capital kept the flow on in the wake of continued buying by domestic institutional investors amid positive global indicators.

Private sector spending should come back on track in 2019, SN Subrahmanyan, CEO and MD of Larsen and Toubro, said on Monday. Speaking to a business news channel, Subrahmanyan said L&T’s working capital cycle has taken a beating is partly because private sector investments had gone into a shell over the previous two-three years and also owing to increased dependence on government projects which at times have financial hold backs for a minimum three months to clear. The company’s working capital cycle has jumped to 22%.

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), the country’s largest oil refiner and retailer, has shifted its focus to have more than 50% market share of the electric vehicle charging and infrastructure space as the country moves to convert its passenger and commercial vehicles to electric by 2030. The PSU oil marketer is the first oil company to start a pilot project for charging of electric vehicles at its fuel station. The initiative, in partnership with Ola Cabs, in Nagpur will serve the cab aggregator’s electric vehicle fleet. IOC aims to meet the electrical energy requirements of vehicles from its entire 26,500 retail outlets in future. Murali Srinivasan, executive director at Indian Oil, told FE if the country has to achieve the 100% electric vehicles target by 2030, it would be inconceivable without including oil and gas retail outlets as the source for setting up charging facilities.

To make India a global hub for satellite manufacturing, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has floated a tender inviting private firms to bid and build 30 satellites, nearly half of its requirement over the next five years.

The space agency has lined up 60 satellite launches over the next five years, including a repeat mission to the moon with a rover.

A report by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has revealed that India has a higher rate of malnutrition than North Korea and Myanmar.

According to the World Economic Forum, India fared poorly on the Global Hunger Index (GHI, pdf) for 2017 as India ranked 100 out of 119 countries on the GHI, while last year it was at 97 out of 118.

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