Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) was up nearly 4% to Rs 606, also its record high on the BSE, after the company said it will invest over Rs 9,800 crore in expanding its Barauni refinery in Bihar and setting up a petrochemical unit at Panipat refinery in Haryana.

The board of directors of IOC in its meeting on Thursday approved expansion of Barauni refinery from 6 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) to 9 MTPA capacity along with downstream Polypropylene unit at an estimated cost of Rs 8,287 crore, the company said in a regulatory filing.

Infrastructure major Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has bagged orders worth Rs 6,024 crore across various business segments.

"The construction arm of L&T has won orders worth Rs 6,024 crore across various business segments," L&T said in a BSE filing today.

Mumbai: State Bank of India chairman Arundhati Bhattacharya, who was due to retire on 6 October, has received a year’s extension, said a SBI official from the chairman’s office on the condition of anonymity .

The move comes at a time when the country’s largest bank is set to merge its associate banks and Bharatiya Mahila Bank with itself.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) will give priority to strengthening risk management systems for commodity markets, its chief UK Sinha said.

Many measures have been taken by Sebi on strengthening the commodity derivatives market in the last one year after the market regulator’s merger with Forward Markets Commission (FMC) on September 28, 2015. Sebi is also looking at allowing players like mutual funds, banks and insurance companies to participate in commodity derivatives market.

Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) on Friday said it has signed a binding share purchase agreement to acquire a 99.49% equity from existing shareholders of BSS Microfinance, a Karnataka-based micro lender, for Rs 139.2 crore.

The announcement comes just a month after another private sector bank, IDFC Bank, acquired Grama Vidiyal Micro Finance. However, unlike IDFC Bank’s acquisition, KMB said BSS Microfinance will not merge with it, but operate as a subsidiary.

The Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation's (IRCTC) ambitious plans to make its packaged drinking water brand Rail Neer as one of the dominant players on Indian Railways seems to have paid off. The 17th annual general report of IRCTC, presented at the company's general meeting held on Tuesday highlighted a 46% rise income from Rail Neer for IRCTC.

The fight over advertisement between Air India and IndiGo has reached the civil aviation ministry, with top ministry officials asking both the airlines to not indulge in mudslinging and remove the hoardings targeted at each other. However, the 'ceasefire' did not last long with IndiGo putting an advertisement display on Friday at city's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA).

Maruti Suzuki, the country’s biggest car maker, has reported its best ever monthly sales in September, growing over 29 per cent in the domestic market as dealers stock vehicles for deliveries in the festive season beginning on Saturday. Maruti’s growth will drive the industry to a strong double digit growth in September.

The company, which enjoys a 47 per cent share in the Indian market, sold 137,277 vehicles last month against 106,083 units in the same month last year. All segments of the company have grown by double digits, though the bulk of the growth has come from its utility vehicle segment which includes its latest product, Brezza.

A promoter of telecom operator Reliance Communications has pledged 7 crore shares valued at around Rs 300 crore with L&T Finance Limited on September 28.

Reliance Wind Turbine Installators Industries Private Limited, which holds 12.05 per cent in RCom, has pledged 7 crore shares to L&T Finance Limited, as per a BSE Filing.

Bajaj Auto workers at Chakan and Akurdi will go on a one-day hunger strike on Sunday, October 2, to to demand faster settlement of the wage issue and reinstatement of eight dismissed workers after the previous round of wage negotiations.

Vishwa Kalayan Kamgar Sanghatana, the union of workers in Bajaj Auto Limited’s Chakan and Akurdi plants, said in a press release that wage agreement talks for April 2016 to March 2019 period have been going on for the last six months and negotiations for the new agreement have not been successful.

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