L&T is fast inching towards touching the 26 per cent shareholding threshold in Mindtree, as the engineering firm on Wednesday bought an additional 2.29 per cent stake worth Rs 368.4 crore through open market transaction. With this round of buying, total holding of L&T reached 23.92 per cent in the Bengaluru-headquartered IT services company.

Shares of YES Bank fell about 2.5 per cent to Rs 157 on the BSE during the early morning trade on Thursday after rating agency India Ratings (Ind-Ra) downgraded the bank’s long-term ratings even as it reaffirmed the short term rating.

The stock was trading close to its 52-week low of Rs 147 touched on November 29, 2018 in intra-day deal.

Enrolled under NTPC’s ‘Super 30 girls’ programme, a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative introduced by India’s largest power generating company, 18 girls, out of 25, have successfully qualified for the IIT JEE mains.

The year-long residential program, implemented with an objective to coach students belonging to economically weaker families, brought these aspirants a step closer to fulfilling their dream of studying in some of India’s premier institutes.

The lenders to Reliance Communications (R-Com) on Tuesday moved the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) seeking to appoint a new resolution professional and form a committee of creditors, the first step to start the bankruptcy process against the Anil Ambani group company that owes close to Rs 50,000 crore to 31 lenders, led by the State Bank of India.

Mumbai: Even after entering his third and final year as the chairman of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), Ajay Tyagi is yet to implement an institutional mechanism for handle investigations and queries by external agencies such Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), income tax.

NEW DELHI: Insurance sector regulator Irdai Tuesday directed insurers to take steps for ensuring registration of all claims and quick settlement of eligible cases in cyclone-hit areas of Odisha and neighbouring states.

Cyclone Fani has resulted in immense loss to property and to some extent lives in Odisha and the neighbouring states.

MUMBAI: As Bank of Baroda (BoB) starts aligning the businesses of erstwhile Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with itself following the merger, it is also looking to instil a new work culture and make its management more accessible to employees.

Two senior employees from erstwhile Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank said on condition of anonymity that the BoB management has assured them that they will not be discriminated against by existing employees.

Hong Kong: Binance, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, said hackers withdrew 7,000 Bitcoin via a single transaction in a “large scale security breach," the latest in a long line of thefts in the digital currency space.

The hackers used a “variety of techniques" including phishing and viruses to obtain a large amount of user data, Binance said in a post on its website.

NEW DELHI: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) is set to surpass DXC Technology Co. to become the world’s third-largest software services provider in fiscal 2018-19, marking the first change in the pecking order of the information technology (IT) outsourcing industry in two years.

The benchmark BSE Sensex extended its losing streak by falling over 250 points in early trade on Wednesday, led by losses global markets amid rising US-China tension.

The 30-share index was trading 205.12 points, or 0.54 per cent, lower at 38,071.51.

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