State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Thursday reported a 58% jump in net profit to Rs 6,144 crore for the first quarter of FY19, compared with Rs 3,885 crore a year ago, driven by higher realisation for its produce.

The revenue from operations of the explorer increased 42% to Rs 27,213 crore in the quarter gone by from Rs 19,073 crore in the comparable period last fiscal.

Domestic markets on Friday opened in green tracking the positive global cues. At 9:41 AM, Sensex was up by 37,413.27 points while Nifty was at 11,321.45 points. On Thursday, Sensex dropped over 200 points to 37,373.08 on heavy selling in metal, auto, banking, capital and realty stocks amid sustained capital outflows by foreign funds after the RBI yesterday hiked repo rate for the second time in two months.

National passenger carrier Air India will enhance a codeshare agreement with Ethiopian Airlines, the company said in a statement on Thursday.

According to the statement, the expanded codeshare agreement will allow its passengers to access Ethiopian Airlines' network in Africa.

Promoters of Kotak Mahindra Bank, led by MD & CEO Uday Kotak, reduced their stake in the private sector lender to 19.7 per cent after the bank issued preference shares worth Rs 5 billion to investors. Before the issue, promoters held 30.03 per cent in the bank.

The bank issued one billion non-convertible perpetual non-cumulative preference shares (PNCPS) of a face value of Rs 5 each to investors on Thursday.

Larsen & Tourbo (L&T) on Thursday divested its stake in L&T Technology Services to comply with the 25 per cent minimum public shareholding requirement. The engineering giant is offering up to 6.6 million shares, representing 6.6 per cent stake, through the so-called offer for sale (OFS) route.

So far, the offering has garnered bids for 5.34 million shares from institutional investors.

State-owned CIL today said it produced 177.43 million tonnes of coal in the first four months of the ongoing fiscal, registering a growth of 14 per cent. It had produced 155.53 million tonnes (MT) of coal in the year-ago period, Coal India Ltd said in a filing to BSE. In July CIL produced 40.56 MT coal, against 36.69 a year ago. The state-owned firm accounts for over 80 per cent of the domestic coal production.

Imran Khan has decided against inviting foreign leaders and celebrities to his oath taking ceremony as Pakistan's new prime minister as he wants to keep the event very simple, according to a media report.

Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the single largest party in the elections held on July 25. The 65-year-old leader is expected to take oath on August 11.

NHAI will on Friday ink a pact with State Bank of India (SBI) for a long-term unsecured loan to the tune of Rs 250 billion.

This is SBI's highest long-term unsecured loan to any entity and also the largest ever loan sanctioned to NHAI.

Mumbai/Delhi: ICICI Bank Ltd is yet to reply to a notice by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) seeking clarifications on the disclosure of price-sensitive information, the bank said in a filing made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday.

The markets regulator is investigating whether ICICI Bank and its chief executive officer, Chanda Kochhar

New Delhi: Kotak Mahindra Bank will raise up to 500 crore by issuing preference shares on a private placement basis.

The non-convertible preference shares (NCPS) issuance committee of the board of directors of the bank on Wednesday resolved to approved the issue of perpetual non-cumulative preference shares on a private placement basis aggregating to an issue size of up to 500 crore, Kotak Mahindra Bank said in a regulatory filing.

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