The state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) received a notification for a tax refund worth Rs 25,464 crore from the Income Tax Department for 7 Assessment Years (AYs) from 2012-13 to 2019-20 except for 2015-16. This is related to the interim bonus paid to policyholders during the assessment period.

On Thursday, LIC reported to have got a tax demand for Rs 2133.67 crore for the seven years AYs and Rs 1395.08 crore for AY 2015-16.

The Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), perhaps the most anticipated infrastructure project in the city, is set to open for regular traffic this Saturday, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India’s longest sea bridge on Friday.

Named the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewri-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu, the 21.8 km-long, six-lane engineering marvel, of which 16.5 km is in the sea, has been built at a cost of Rs 17,840 crore, and will cut the distance between the Mumbai island city and its satellite city Navi Mumbai shorter.

Amid the growing public anticipation in India around the opening of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, later this month, the Mauritian government announced the grant of two hours of special break for practising Hindu public officers on January 22 to enable them to participate in local events marking the 'Pran Pratishtha' of Shri Ram Lalla in the Indian temple town.

Digital Connexion, a joint venture between Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, Canada's Brookfield and US-based Digital Realty, on Friday launched its first data centre in India, at Ambattur in Chennai.

The centre started with a processing capacity of 20 megawatt (Mw) and will expand it to 100 Mw, making it one of the largest such facilities in the country. Digital Connexion is planning to start a 40 Mw data centre in Mumbai, a top company executive told Business Standard.

Tata Consumer Products, the maker of Tata Tea, has announced its acquisition of Capital Foods, the company behind Ching’s Secret and Smith & Jones brands.

The buy, at an enterprise value of Rs 5,100 crore on a no cash, no debt basis, will be carried out in a phased manner, with Tata Cons­umer acquiring 75 per cent of the shareholding before March 31 and the remaining 25 per cent within three years, the company said in an exchange filing late Friday evening.

All India Trinamool Congress party leader and chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, pressed the central government to change the state's name from West Bengal to "Bangla '' during a press conference on Thursday. The chief minister questioned the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre on why West Bengal was being excluded from states that were able to change their names.

This comes days after the municipal body of Ghaziabad decided to change its name.

Parts of the national capital and its surrounding areas were covered in a thick blanket of fog as temperature dipped to 5.4 degrees Celsius on Friday morning.

Due to the fog cover, the visibility levels in Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport area reduced to zero on Friday morning.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 27th National Youth Festival here on Friday which will see participation of youths from across the country. Union Minister Anurag Thakur said on Thursday that thousands of youths have gathered here to participate in the festival that is organised every year on the birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and other dignitaries will also be present on the occasion where the youth will take a vow to make India a developed nation by 2047.

SpiceJet shareholders on Thursday approved the issue of preferential equity and warrants to 63 major entities which includes Aries Opportunities Fund, the Mahapatra family—Preeti and Harihara Mahapatra— and others.

Preeti and Harihara Mahapatra will own a major stake in the airline; 19.95 per cent and 1.99 per cent respectively. Meanwhile, Aries Opportunities Fund will hold 3.99 per cent share in the low cost carrier.

Russian Deputy Far East and Arctic Development Minister Anatoly Bobrakov on Thursday emphasised that Russia is planning to renew the Chennai-Vladivostok route, stressing that they are also planning to visit Chennai at the end of this month for further discussions.

Russian Minister Bobrakov attended the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit on Thursday, where he emphasised that the summit is pretty effective for their delegation.

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