New Delhi: Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Monday barred First Financial Services and 28 others from the markets for three years for orchestrating a fraudulent scheme involving preferential allotment route, which ultimately benefited a few allottees.

The move follows Securities Appellate Tribunal’s (SAT) directive to Sebi for passing the final orders in the matter by March this year.

New Delhi: Vedanta, ArcleorMittal and Numetal along with JSW on Monday submitted resolution plans for the debt-laden Essar Steel in the second round of bidding, people close to the development said.

JSW has joined hands with the Mauritius-based investment vehicle Numetal for placing its bid.

With petrol and diesel prices touching multi-year highs, Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said the government is keeping a close eye on international prices but said there is no going back on free market pricing. He said consumers will benefit if petrol and diesel are brought under Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime at the earliest.

Leading stock exchange BSE will auction investment limits for foreign investors to purchase government bonds worth over Rs 11,000 crore tomorrow.

The auction for investment limits for such securities has been receiving a good response from foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in recent past.

At least five people - four from Madhya Pradesh and one from Rajasthan - were killed after protests turned violent between Dalit groups and cops in Madhya Pradesh.

Earlier, Dalit organisations called for a nationwide bandh to protest the alleged dilution of SCST Act.

Ford India on Monday reported a 11.06 per cent increase in total sales at 27,580 units in March against 24,832 units in the same month last year.

The company said its domestic sales stood at 9,016 units in March as against 8,700 units in the year-ago month, up 3.63 per cent.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) on Monday reported a 8.8 per cent increase in total sales at 60,507 units in March 2018.

The company had sold 55,614 units in March last year, HMIL said in a statement.

MUMBAI: RBI is understood to have raised some queries regarding the Axis Bank board's proposal to reappoint Shikha Sharma as MD & CEO for a fresh term beginning June 2018. The queries come more than eight months after the board approved Sharma's reappointment, following a board approval.

New Delhi: India's space agency said on Sunday it had lost contact with a telecommunications satellite successfully launched on Thursday, the trouble emerging while engineers were nudging the spacecraft in steps towards its assigned parking slot high above the equator.

The Indian Space Research Organisation said communication from the GSAT-6A satellite "was lost" between the second orbit-raising operation on Saturday and a scheduled third orbit-raising operation on Sunday.

Mahindra & Mahindra, the maker of Scorpio and Bolero SUV has registered 10% growth in March of 2018 with dispatches of 62,077 units, driving the company past 5 lakh mark for the entire financial year FY-18, a first in five years.

Mahindra & Mahindra sold 26555 units of passenger vehicle in March 2018 registering a growth of 4%, whereas commercial vehicle sales grew by 11% to 25496 units.

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