Workers of the Tata Motors’ Sanand plant, who refused to take the company transport back home on Wednesday as a mark of protest, have approached the state labour department to help them negotiate their demands with the management.

A tripartite meeting between the workers, labour department officials and company representatives took place on Thursday afternoon to discuss the workers’ demands related to wage hikes.

Reliance Industries (RIL) was up 4.4% to Rs 1,288 on the BSE in early morning trade extending its rally on the bourses. The stock was trading at its highest level since May 23, 2008, when it touched 1,318.50 during intra-day trade.

RIL on Thursday after market hours informed the stock exchanges that entities forming part of the promoter group of the company intend to acquire from other promoter group entities by way of ‘inter-se’ transfer aggregating up to 1,190 million shares of RIL.

New Delhi: Bajaj Auto on Thursday reported a marginal increase in total sales in February at 2,73,513 units as against 2,72,719 units during the same month a year ago.

Domestic sales were at 1,59,109 units as compared to 1,73,760 units in the same month last year, down 8.43%, the company said in a statement.

Mumbai, March 1: Ajay Tyagi today began his innings as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) amid a clutch of challenges, ranging from developing the commodity markets to ensuring better corporate governance and handling alleged violations in access of servers at the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

Tyagi is the ninth chairman of Sebi and takes over charge from U.K. Sinha, who demited office after a six-year tenure.

News reports are abuzz with speculation that Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC) may acquire the government’s 51.1% stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL). While there is no official confirmation of this news yet, who will benefit the most if it plays out according to the reports?

Prima facie, it looks like the government will walk away with the booty in this case. The government will earn about $4-4.5 billion as a result of this acquisition. That should assist it in meeting its divestment target. Based on Tuesday’s market price, the deal works out to Rs27,786 crore (or $4.17 billion).

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS), which is planning a Rs16,000 crore share buyback, said on Wednesday that founder group of the company intended to participate in the proposed buyback.

TCS, is part of the salt-to-software Tata conglomerate, whose holding company is Tata Sons Ltd.

Sensex, on Thursday, opened at 29132.58, higher than yesterday's close at 28,984.49. It was up by over 148.09 points a few minutes into trading.

The Nifty, which had closed at 8,945.80 points climbed 41.90 points 8,987.70.

Tata Motors gained 4% to Rs 467 on the BSE after the company reported 2% increase in total passenger and commercial vehicle sales in February at 47,573 units compared to 46,674 in the same month last year. The company had recorded 1% year on year decline in total sales in the month January.

Domestic sales of Tata Motors' commercial and passenger vehicles were at 42,679 units in February as against 41,532 units in the same month last year, up 2.76 per cent, the company said in a BSE filing.

Banks including HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank today began charging a minimum amount of Rs 150 per transaction for cash deposits and withdrawals beyond four free transactions in a month.

The charges would apply to savings as well as salary accounts effective from today, leading private sector player HDFC Bank said in a circular.

State Bank of India will relocate 1,500-1,600 branches after April as part of a consolidation exercise.

Five associate banks — State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur, State Bank of Hyderabad, State Bank of Mysore, State Bank of Patiala and State Bank of Travancore — will merge with parent State Bank of India on April 1.

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