Vodafone Idea Ltd, India’s largest telecommunications company by subscribers, on Wednesday approved 250 billion rupees (USD 3.63 billion) rights issue at a sharp discount, sending its shares tumbling.

The deal is the second major fundraising by an Indian telco this year after Bharti Airtel Ltd announced a similar plan to reduce debt and fund operations in a market blighted by steep price competition.

Benchmark indices opened on a positive note on Wednesday on sustained foreign fund inflow ahead of March derivatives expiry.

However, gains were capped as Asian shares fell across the board in line with overnight drop in US stocks. Rising crude oil prices too worried investors.

Bloomberg tracks the fortunes of some 2,800 billionaires. Of those, 145 are worth at least $10 billion, making them decabillionaires. Now, the world contains two centibillionaires simultaneously.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, once the world’s richest person, has again eclipsed the $100 billion threshold, joining Amazon.com Inc.’s Jeff Bezos in the exclusive club, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Even as Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Tuesday tried to play down the nature of its move to take over technology firm Mindtree, promoters of the latter refused to budge from their stand, terming the move hostile, unprecedented, and unexplainable. They maintained that the culture of the two companies are not aligned.

Addressing newspersons on Tuesday, L&T MD & CEO SN Subrahmanyan said what they are trying to do is with pyaar (love) and will continue to look at it as something they are doing from dil (heart).

State Bank of India (SBI) has bought loan pools worth only about Rs 17,000 crore so far in FY19 from non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), against the stated target of Rs 45,000 crore, sources told FE.

There are not too many good asset pools up for sale, and SBI is unlikely to meet its revised full-year target, according to executives in the know.

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with capital markets regulator Sebi for an effective implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. They have agreed to assist and cooperate with each other for effective implementation of the IBC, subject to limitations imposed by the applicable laws, an official statement said.

India is not the first tier country for post-Brexit free trade agreement (FTA) and a lot more work would be required before Britain can start negotiating such a deal with New Delhi, the UK government admitted on Tuesday.

In his submission to the ongoing Global Britain and India' inquiry being conducted on post-Brexit India-UK ties by the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), UK Foreign Office Minister Mark Field flagged some high-value trade disputes involving British companies in India as a warning sign on the road ahead.

The country’s largest real estate developer DLF on Tuesday announced its second joint venture with global realty investment, development and management firm Hines. They will work on a project with total value of Rs 7,000 crore.

DLF Home Developers (DHDL), a wholly owned subsidiary of DLF, and Green Horizon Trustee, an affiliate of Hines, have entered into a joint venture to develop a high-end commercial project in Gurugram, said the companies.

Google on Tuesday unveiled a streaming platform called Stadia that allows video game play on any internet-connected device, eliminating the need for games consoles.

The tech platform, announced at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, aims to connect more people to participate in interactive play on PCs, tablets, smartphones and other devices.

With the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 fast approaching, an immediate worry before the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is its lookout for a new head coach for the national cricket team. The tenure of current coach Ravi Shastri and his support coaching staff is set to end right after the world cup. To this end, BCCI is likely to soon advertise the vacant position, according to cricket news website ESPNCricinfo, and the candidates should be interviewed before India's tour of West Indies, which begins is in late July.

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