Mumbai: Investigative agencies have turned their lens on bitcoin users after earlier surveying cryptocurrency exchanges. Last month, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the income tax department (IT) jointly raided users of cryptocurrencies in a few locations suspecting money laundering, fraud and tax evasion, said people aware of the development.

The agencies surveyed bitcoin users in Ahmedabad and Surat last month, said an ED official on condition of anonymity.

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday issued notices to telcos Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone India Ltd and Idea Cellular Ltd on a challenge by Competition Commission of India (CCI) to setting aside a probe against them on allegations of cartelisation

A bench headed by justice A.K. Sikri refused to grant an interim stay on the probe order and said that the matter would be heard on merits.

Hardayal Prasad has been appointed as Managing Director and CEO of SBI Card, the credit card issuer said in a statement today. Prasad takes over from Vijay Jasuja who retired on January 31. His appointment is effective February 1, 2018. Prasad joined State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in 1983, gaining experience in many areas of banking. He has served in several locations spread across different circles and abroad, SBI Card said.

Tata Motors Ltd reported about a 13-fold rise in quarterly profit on Monday, driven by higher sales from its Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) business after a particularly weak quarter a year earlier.

Net profit for the quarter ended December 31 came in at Rs 12 billion versus Rs 937.7 million in the same quarter a year earlier.

Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp on Monday announced a 68 percent jump in operating profit in the third quarter due to ongoing growth in automobile and motorcycle sales in India, its biggest market, as well as in Europe and at home.

Operating profit at Japan's No. 4 automaker came in at 86.9 billion yen ($790.36 million) in October-December, jumping from 51.85 billion yen a year earlier and exceeding a median forecast of 77.49 billion yen from nine analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

New Delhi: The government is eyeing Rs 3,000-4000 crore surplus funds lying with market regulator Sebi as part of its exercise to mop up non-tax revenue to bridge the fiscal deficit gap, a senior official has said.

The government has already sought dividend of about Rs 13,000 crore from the Reserve Bank of India for 2016-17.

Greenko Group and Hero Future Energies Pvt. Ltd are separately looking to acquire Subhash Chandra’s Essel Infraprojects’ solar business, according to two people aware of the development.

“The Essel solar deal may rank amongst the largest clean energy deals in India’s renewable energy space,” said one of the two people cited above, requesting anonymity.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s monetary policy committee (MPC) is likely to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday as the risk of inflation breaching the central bank’s 4% target again has heightened, say economists.

Of the 15 economists surveyed by Mint, 14 expect the central bank to keep the repo rate—the rate at which the central bank infuses liquidity in the banking system—unchanged at 6%. Only one expects a rate hike of 25 basis points.

Mumbai: Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd on Saturday won an order to supply 1,000 electric vehicles (EVs) to Bengaluru-based fleet operator Baghirathi Travel Solutions Pvt. Ltd through its subsidiary Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd, Mahesh Babu, CEO of Mahindra Electric said, describing the order as “one of the biggest in Indian corporate mobility”.

Singapore-based telecom operator Singtel will invest Rs 2,649 crore in Bharti Telecom, increasing its stake in the Indian telecom major to 48.9 per cent. “Airtel Limited…announced that Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel)… will invest Rs 2,649 crore in Bharti Telecom Limited (Bharti Telecom), the promoter company of Airtel through preferential allotment of shares,” Bharti Airtel said in a statement.

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