In Budget 2022, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said that 5G in 2022 and BharatNet broadband will be ready by 2025. Apart from this, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing the nation on the 75th Independence Day, had said that 5G services are going to start in India soon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi … Read more
On Tuesday, September 20 NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) said in a regulatory filing that founders Radhika Roy and Prannoy Roy and their investment company RRPR Holding Pvt Ltd have moved the Supreme Court against the July 2022 order of the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT). The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), in its order dated July … Read more
On Monday 19 September, OYO filed an addendum to the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) filed earlier for its initial public offering (IPO) in October 2021 with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). OYO (formally Oravel Stays Limited) disclosed its latest financials in the IPO filing addendum in which OYO’s revenue stood at … Read more
On Tuesday 13 September, the joint venture between Vedanta and Taiwan base Foxconn Group announced that it will open a new semiconductor and chip manufacturing plant in Gujarat. Vedanta is the third company to announce a chip plant in India. Earlier Singapore-based IGSS Ventures signed an MoU (Memorandum of understanding) with the Tamil Nadu state … Read more
Indian stock market touched a significant milestone of 10 crore Demat accounts in August 2022. A total of 22 lakh new Demat accounts were opened in the month of August. Now the total Demat account in India is 10,05,10,862 crores which is a new record for the Indian stock market. According to the National Securities … Read more
NTPC Limited is an Indian Public Sector Undertaking that is India‘s largest integrated power company with an installed capacity of 70,064 MW. NTPC Limited has produced 7.36 MMT of coal during the period April 2022 to August 2022 which is an increase of 62% year-on-year as compared to 4.55 MMT produced during the corresponding period … Read more
According to the GST revenue data released on Thursday, 1st September, the Gross GST Revenue collected in the month of August 2022 grew by 28% year-on-year to Rs 1,43,612 crore as against Rs 1,12,020 crore in the month of August 2021. Gross GST revenue fell by 3.6% month-on-month to Rs 1,43,612 crore in August 2022, … Read more
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures were released by the Government of India on 31 August 2022, in which India’s GDP grew at the rate of 13.5% in Q1 of FY23 while GDP grew by 20.1% in Q1 of FY22. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has increased its benchmark repo rate by 140 basis … Read more
Indian billionaire Adani Group has acquired a 29.18% stake in media company NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited), but Adani owns this stake indirectly in NDTV. NDTV is one of India’s leading news channels which operates many national channels like NDTV India, NDTV 24×7 and the company also runs an online news website. In 2009 NDTV … Read more
On Monday 15 August 2022, India gifted a Dornier-228 aircraft to strengthen Sri Lanka‘s maritime security. The Indian Air Force and Indian officials handed over the Dornier-228 Maritime Surveillance Reconnaissance Aircraft to the Sri Lankan Air Force base at Katunayake during a ceremony. Katunayake is a suburb of the city of Negombo in Sri Lanka, … Read more
On Friday, 5 August 2022, in the Monsoon Session, Minister of State for Defense Ajay Bhatt said in response to a question in the Lok Sabha that Malaysia shortlisted 18 LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) Tejas jets from India and Argentina, Indonesia, Australia, America, Egypt, and the Philippines have shown interest. In March 2019, India’s indigenous … Read more
On 20 May 2022 Mahindra & Mahindra Limited announced that they will launch the all-new ‘Scorpio-N’ brand new of the much-awaited SUV segment. The all-new ‘Scorpio-N’ comes with automatic and manual transmission and is powered by diesel and petrol engines with prices starting at Rs 11.99 lakhs. The company said that their new SUV Scorpio-N … Read more
India’s civil aviation ministry has announced that from August 31 2022 all fare caps on domestic airlines will be removed. The Indian government on 21 May 2020 had set minimum and maximum price bands for airfares based on flight duration during the coronavirus pandemic to control fares. Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said that due to … Read more
On Monday 11 July 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that the settlement of international trade can be done in Indian Rupees (INR) in order to boost the growth of global trade and to emphasize exports from India. And this additional arrangement has been made for invoicing, payment, and settlement of imports and … Read more
Uranium is considered one of the rarest minerals and has a very high density. India has been confirmed to have reserves of more than 2.5 lakh tonnes of uranium and India produces about 2% of the world’s uranium. Rajasthan is a major state in the availability and diversity of minerals in India and produces about … Read more
On Thursday 16 June 2022, the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) announced that NPCI International has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with France-based payment solutions provider Lyra Network to accept RuPay cards and UPI payments in France. RuPay cards and UPI (Unified Payments Interface) services will be available in France soon. France and … Read more
10 lakh government jobs will be given by the Government of India in 1.5 years, out of which the Agnipath scheme is a process under which the Government of India has decided to appoint 46000 ‘Agniveers’ in the year 2022, and the number of Agniveers to be recruited in the first year will be only … Read more
Today the Indian Stock Market Index Nifty fell by 2.89% to 15732.10 and Sensex fell by 2.96% to 33311.55. In intraday trading, the Indian rupee closed at an all-time low of 78.22 due to the rise in the price of crude oil and the rise in the dollar. Globally, central banks are continuously increasing their … Read more
The share price of India’s biggest IPO company LIC has fallen by 12.05% in the last week. Today LIC’s share is trading at Rs 709.70 while an IPO of Rs 949 is at a discount of around 25% to the issue price. On Wednesday 8 June 2022, LIC informed the exchange that LIC has purchased … Read more
RBI Monetary Policy: On Wednesday, 8 June 2022, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.90% and this is the second time in five weeks the repo rate has been increased by 50 basis points. Whereas the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) had hiked the repo rate by … Read more
Today Nifty rose by 2.1% to 16661.40 and Sensex rose by 1.98% to close at 55925.74. Rising inflation is a major concern around the world in 2022, due to which central banks such as the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and RBI (Reserve Bank of India) have increased their benchmark interest rates. The bank’s interest … Read more
The global market has been falling steadily since the beginning of January 2022. In the last one month, Nifty50 has fallen about 12.7% while in the last one week also Nifty50 has fallen about 5.9%. Nifty is currently trading at 15735.45, down 15% from its all-time high. Due to rising inflation and a weakening rupee, … Read more
Almost all major markets are down since the beginning of 2022. US Fed, Bank of England, and RBI (Reserve Bank of India) have already started rate hikes and the market is expecting that the rates will be hiked further. Due to this the Indian market is also in a downward trend as high inflation is … Read more
In April 2022, there is a power cut in about 12 states of India. Most of the electricity in India is based on coal. At present, there is a coal crisis, due to which Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and 10 states of India are facing power cuts. India imports 15 percent of the country’s coal while … Read more
LIC IPO India’s biggest IPO (Initial public offering) so far is coming at around 21000 crores. LIC was the only insurance company in India from the year 1956 to the year 2000. LIC’s DRHP (Draft Red Herring Prospectus) was filed with SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) in February 2022 but the final IPO … Read more