The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which is currently tendering road monetisation projects, has started of a unique data-sharing plan with prospective bidders. It is undertaking the task of conducting due diligence for the contracts prior to their bidding.

NHAI will ascertain the health of TOT or toll-operate-transfer projects, which would then be offered to international investors for their operation and maintenance.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday has moved the Madras High Court challenging a trial court order which discharged Kalanithi Maran, Dayanidhi Maran and seven others in the BSNL illegal telephone exchange case.

During the period between 2004 and 2007, Dayanidhi Maran had been accused of misusing his power and allegedly providing the wrong cell phone connections of Chennai BSNL to Sun Telecom, owned by his brother Kalanithi Maran.

ICICI Bank today said it has not received any "specific communication" from the US markets regulator SEC with regard to alleged lapses involving the lender's chief Chanda Kochhar and her family members.

The bank's response was sought by stock exchanges regarding a report that matter of alleged lapses involving Kochhar has come under the scanner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

NEW DELHI: The government has put on hold disinvestment of Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) as it wants to tap the massive pile of data. The ministry is working out a revamp plan before selling shares in one of the largest e-commerce sites to realise a better value.

India’s largest engineering and construction firm, Larsen and Toubro (L&T), is planning to start bidding for road projects under the hybrid annuity model (HAM), introduced just two years ago. The company will bid for HAM projects through its infrastructure development subsidiary, L&T L&T Infrastructure Development Projects (IDPL), L&T IDPL’s CEO Shailesh Pathak told FE.

Even as India’s largest car-maker Maruti Suzuki is gearing up for the launch of its Ertiga automatic spied, global research firm HSBC says that the development will be a near-term trigger for Maruti Suzuki’s shares. Notably, the new 2018 Maruti Suzuki Ertiga MPV is likely to be launched in the month of October and is already up for sale in Indonesia since April 2018.

BENGALURU: Digital payments major Paytm is all set to enter the physical point-of-sales terminal business and is planning to roll out PoS machines at merchant outlets across the country, according to two people in the know of the matter.

The payments player, which was using QR codes to ramp up offline digital payments, is now opening card payments at merchant locations as well.

The benchmark Sensex rose over 110 points while the Nifty reclaimed the 10,800-mark as investors looked forward to release of key macroeconomic data due today amid a firming trend in Asia.

The 30-share BSE Sensex was trading at 35593.60, up 110 points at 10.12 AM. The gauge had gained 39.80 points in the previous session.

Centre is set to miss a December deadline to acquire land for a Japan-backed $17 billion bullet train project following protests by fruit growers, government officials said, likely delaying one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's most ambitious projects.

The Congress slammed the Narendra Modi government for mismanaging’ the economy which slowed down the GDP growth and led to rampant unemployment.

The party blamed the government for “allowing” Nirav Modi and Mehul Chosky, the main accused in the Rs 143 billion Punjab National Bank scam, to flee the country. It also hit out at the government for its “confused” policy on Air India disinvestment.

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