Leading public sector lenders State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) have put their 15 non-performing assets worth Rs 10.63 billion for sale.

Both the banks said they will conduct the e-auction on 20th of this month.

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has revised the National Electricity Plan (NEP) after getting feedback from more than 30 state-owned and private institutions, mostly questioning the redundancy of coal. From retiring coal-based power completely, the CEA has said India would need 6,440 Mw thermal power during 2017-22.

In the earlier version of the NEP, which was out in 2017, the CEA had said the country did not need coal-based capacity addition till 2022.

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Friday completed the hearing on multiple applications filed by ArcelorMittal and Numetal, challenging the decision of Essar Steel's resolution professional (RP) to hold their bids ineligible.

The bench, comprising judges Harihar Prakash Chaturvedi and Manorama Kumari, is likely to pronounce its verdict on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Actor Salman Khan was on Saturday granted bail by a Jodhpur court in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case in which he has been sentenced to five years in jail.

The actor was granted bail on a personal bond of Rs 50,000 and two sureties of Rs 25,000 each. He is likely to be released this evening once the papers are ready and sent to jail authorities.

Indian stock markets have fared quite well in the last one year except the period beginning from February which has steered the benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty to drop by 8% from the respective all-time highs. In the last one year, there were many blue-chip stocks that have out done the returns of the key indices such as Titan Company, Avenue Supermarts and Maruti Suzuki.

Reliance Jio’s disruptive entry in September 2016 led to USD 10 billion in annual savings for consumers and will expand India’s per capita GDP by about 5.65 per cent, says a report.

Jio has made data accessible and affordable, with average prices per GB dropping to Rs 10 from Rs 152, bringing the internet within the reach of a larger proportion of the Indian population.

Telecom regulator Trai on Friday initiated the process to overhaul the mobile number portability (MNP) to remove the inconveniences faced by subscribers under the current port-out system.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued a discussion paper on reviewing the MNP process, which allows users to port out to network of other operators without changing the mobile number.

New Delhi: The hike in natural gas prices to a two-year high of $3.06 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) from April is likely to result in an additional revenue of Rs 1,500 crore for the state-owned explorer ONGC during the first half of this fiscal.

"Assuming natural gas sales volume of around 10 billion cubic meters for the first six months of 2018-19 for ONGC and its joint venture partners, ONGC's natural gas revenue will increase 23 per cent to Rs 8,000 crore for the six months between April 1 and September 30, 2018, from a reported Rs 6,500 crore the year before," Moody's said in its credit outlook.

Yes Bank offers an excellent opportunity to play the theme of structural improvement in profitability vs peers. Not only is the growth opportunity fairly abundant given Yes Bank’s smaller but growing balance sheet, even the retail opportunity on both sides of the balance sheet is likely to drive a 20bps improvement in RoA to 1.9% and 500bps increase in RoE to 23% over the next two years. In contrast, its stock valuations remain muted at 2.4x P/ABV and 13x P/E – this despite a solid stock return of 24% CAGR over the longer term (11 years) and even in the shorter term – 23% CAGR over three years – similar to HDFC Bank’s performance.

KOLKATA: India has largely been an ‘importer’ of global best practices. It is now set to ‘export’ a couple of cool business tricks that Amazon has perfected locally. Both India-first successful initiatives the Seattle behemoth is shipping overseas are in the logistics domain.

They involve roping in local entrepreneurs and tapping neighbourhood grocers, drugstores or other street-corner shops to ensure last-mile delivery of Amazon consignments to customers.

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