Shares of South Indian Bank garnered strong investor interest as it soared 12.5 per cent to Rs 18 per share, after the private sector lender registered a 23 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in net profit to Rs 334 crore in the January-March quarter of FY23 (Q4FY23).

In the past one month, shares of South Indian Bank soared 20 per cent, as against a 2 per cent rise in the S&P BSE Sensex. Earlier, the stock had hit a 52-week high of Rs 21 per share on December 15, 2022.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd and Bharti Airtel Ltd are equally splitting the telecom subscribers that are exiting Vodafone Idea (Vi), the latest data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) showed.

Over 2 million wireless subscribers exited Vodafone Idea in February. Reliance Jio gained 1 million, and Airtel added 982,554 subscribers. The data showed that the total number of wireless subscribers fell by over a million during the month.

With the approval of its board, Zee Media Corporation Limited (ZMCL) is set to go ahead with its bid for Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL), a report published in The Economic Times (ET) said. It should be noted that RBNL has been put under the corporate insolvency process by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT).

In its company filing, Zee Media said that a resolution had been passed on May 5, 2023, that granted approval to the company to submit its expression of interest (EOI) with the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) of RBNL.

Global index provider MSCI has dropped Adani Transmission and Adani Total Gas from its India index—a move that will result in selling worth Rs 3,200 crore ($390 million) in these two counters by passive sellers. The change will become effective from May 31.

MSCI has said if these two Adani group stocks get locked in their lower trading limit for a cumulative 5 minutes on May 31, the deletion will take place at zero value. If not, the index provider will use the official closing price.

Abhishek Ganguly will step down from his role as the managing director of Puma India and its global director of retail and e-commerce Karthik Balagopalan will take on the post from August 1, the company announced on Thursday.

Ganguly had been the MD of the company since 2014. "Abhishek leaves Puma to pursue a career as an entrepreneur in his own venture," the company said.

Delhi Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has lodged a first information report (FIR) against Ashneer Grover, former managing director of BharatPe, his wife Madhuri Jain Grover, and other members of the family on BharatPe’s complaint. The New Delhi-based fintech giant has accused Grover and his family of defrauding it to the tune of Rs 81.28 crore. EOW now has the power to arrest all the accused.

If found guilty, Grover and his family can face up to 10 years of imprisonment.

A five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court (SC) comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud and Justices MR Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha refered the Maharashtra politics crisis case to a larger bench on Thursday.

The SC said that the 2016 Nabam Rebia case, which held that the Speaker cannot initiate disqualification proceedings when a resolution seeking his removal is pending, requires reference to a larger bench.

As part of its push to develop into a travel 'super app', Uber has launched flight bookings to its UK app, enabling users to plan a full journey that includes multiple modes of transportation, a report by Financial Times (FT) said.

The San Francisco-based company has begun rolling out the new booking tool for domestic and international flights to UK customers, with plans to expand it to users across the nation in the upcoming weeks, it added.

In a unanimous judgement, a five-judge constitution bench headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud said that the real administrative power in the national capital must rest with the elected government and the Lieutenant Governor (L-G) shall exercise powers under the administrative role as entrusted by the President.

The Delhi government has legislative and executive powers over services, the court said.

Gold price rose Rs 280 in Thursday's early trade with 10 grams of the yellow metal (24-carat) trading at Rs 62,130, according to the GoodReturns website. Silver price fell Rs 100 with 1 kg of the precious metal selling at Rs 78,000.

The price of ten grams of 22-carat gold rose Rs 250 to Rs 56,950.

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