The overall slump in consumption has impacted cigarette sales of ITC Ltd. The diversified business conglomerate has reported around 3% volume growth in the April-June quarter, against 7-8% in the past three consecutive quarters. This growth slowed despite no hike in cigarette taxes for two years now.

Focus on data subscribers and weeding out low revenue customers have helped Bharti Airtel, while its peer Vodafone Idea could not implement the strategy.

However, network and content costs are on the rise for Bharti as it witnesses a steady rise in mobile data customers.

India's central bank is poised to deliver its fourth successive quarter-point interest rate cut on Wednesday, amid calls from investors and the government for further easing as a slowdown gripping the economy becomes more pervasive.

The Reserve Bank of India will lower the benchmark repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 5.5 per cent, according to almost all of the 36 economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

India’s space agency on Sunday released the first set of pictures of Earth captured by a camera aboard the Moon-bound Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft still in orbit around the planet awaiting its next orbit-raising manoeuvre.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) released at least three pictures showing Earth from different perspectives, calling them “the first set of beautiful pictures of the Earth” from Chandrayaan-2.

Cigarette-to-soap maker, ITC’s June quarter results were not particularly encouraging. The cigarette business, which is ITC’s mainstay, disappointed.

Varun Lohchab, analyst at Jefferies India Pvt. Ltd, points out that “ITC’s Q1FY20 missed slightly operationally as cigarette volumes grew 3% year-on-year (versus our 4% expectation)."

New Delhi: State Bank of India (SBI) on Saturday said the Reserve Bank has imposed a penalty of ₹50 lakh on it for non-compliance relating to reporting of frauds.

RBI in exercise of the powers conferred under various sections of the Banking Regulations Act, has slapped penalties on eight commercial banks, including, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda, for a host of violations, including delay on the reporting of fraud in the account of Kingfisher Airlines in case of two lenders.

Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is scanning InterGlobe Aviation Ltd’s shareholders’ agreement (SHA) to check for any violation of the rights of minority investors and individual shareholders, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

Domestic equity benchmarks BSE Sensex fell over 531 points to trade below 37,000-mark in early trade on Monday following persistent foreign fund outflows amid negative global cues.

Kashmir issue also spooked investors’ sentiment after the authorities stepped up security at vital installations and in sensitive areas, suspended mobile internet services and either “arrested” or “detained” several leaders in fast-paced developments on Sunday night.

Loss-making Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), which is looking at a `74,000-crore government bailout, is in fact losing its existing contracts and that too from PSU firms.

The company has lost an annual contract worth around `400 crore for maintaining the fibre laid under the government’s ambitious BharatNet project to provide broadband connectivity to over 2.5 lakh gram panchayats, as its performance was not found to be up to mark.

It appears that DTH service providers are making hay under the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)’s new tariff regime. Fully implemented on March 31, 2019, the order entails that customers migrate to the new tariff packs, a move aimed at giving them the freedom of choice to pay only for what they watch.

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