Shares and bonds of the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) continued to tumble on Monday, amid concern around mounting debt and ability to service the loans, given the competitive pressure in telecom.

Shares of RCom dropped as much as 24 per cent to hit an intra-day low of Rs 19.7. It recovered marginally to end at Rs 20.5, down Rs 5.3 or 20.5 per cent on the BSE.

Mumbai: The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has raised concerns about Multi Commodity Exchange Ltd’s (MCX) disaster recovery (DR) site being located in the same seismic zone, Mumbai, where trading on the bourse takes place, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

The DR site is the Gujarat International Finance Technical Tec-City (GIFT), which falls in the same seismic zone.

New Delhi: The World Bank on Monday said the government’s November decision to withdraw high-value currency notes may have a disproportionately high impact on the poor and vulnerable while its decision to implement the goods and services tax (GST) will be equitable without any negative impact on the poor.

“Demonetization affected poor and vulnerable households, in all likelihood having an impact on construction and informal retail, where many poor and vulnerable individuals work.

Snapping its record-setting spree, the benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 41 points in early trade today as participants locked-in gains at current levels amid disappointing quarterly earnings.

Besides, absence of cues too negatively impacted trading sentiments as most of other Asian markets are shut.

Engineering giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) today said its construction arm has won orders worth Rs 5,146 crore across business segments. “The construction arm of L&T has won orders worth Rs 5,146 crore various business segments,” the infrastructure major said in a BSE filing.

L&T said its power transmission and distribution business bagged orders worth Rs 2,780 crore in the domestic and international market.

NEW DELHI: The CBI has initiated investigations into key decisions made on Air India when the United Progressive Alliance was in power, including the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines, purchase of 111aircraft by the national carrier and giving away of profitable routes to rival airlines.

The agency filed two cases on the aircraft purchase deal, another on giving away the routes and started a preliminary inquiry into the merger of the airlines. In a statement, the CBI said it started the probe following orders from the Supreme Court. Air India had put an order for 111aircraft — 68 from Boeing and the balance from Airbus.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC's) onshore crude oil domestic production witnessed an increase of 2.4% during last fiscal, after falling for three consecutive years.

Onshore production rose to 5.97 million metric tonne (mmt) during FY17 from 5.82 mmt a year ago. The reversal has happened on account of early monetization of discoveries at Ankleshwar, Cauvery (Madnam) and Rajahmundry (Keshnapalli West), among others, shows the latest data available with the oil and gas major.

Coal India fell as much as 2.8% to Rs 260, its lowest since March 21, 2014 after the company missed analyst estimates and posted a 38% fall in its consolidated net profit to Rs 2,716 crore for the March-quarter. The company had reported profit of Rs 4,398 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.

Even though the revenue from operations in the quarter increased by 8.6%, to Rs 24,780 cr, the miner was hurt by tepid power demand, falling realisations from e-auctions and rise in prices which resulted in the fall.

Over 800,000 chemists across the country have decided to shut shop on Tuesday to protest against the government's e-platform plan to regulate the sale of drugs.

The platform is being set up to ensure supply of quality drugs and curb anti-microbial resistance, but chemists are opposing the move. Under the plan chemists will have to upload details of all medicines purchased and sold on the e-platform and will have to pay a transaction fee to support cost of running the system.

India’s largest power generation company, NTPC, has reported a 25.5 per cent decline in net profit to Rs 2,079 crore for the quarter ended on March 31, 2017, with the utility attributing the slump to “impairment of investment in the Ratnagiri Power plant, known as Dabhol project”. In a statement issued to the BSE, the firm said the impairment loss was of Rs 783 crore in Ratnagiri Gas And Power Pvt Ltd, a joint venture of the company.

The company’s standalone net profit in 2016-17 was down to Rs 9,385.3 crore from Rs 10,770 crore in the previous financial year.

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