Bharat Dynamics Ltd, the prime production agency under India’s Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), said it received top-up orders worth Rs 499 cr for the supply of Akash missiles to the Indian Army. Bharat Dynamics Ltd had got a mega contract worth for Rs 14,000 cr for Aakash missiles in March 2018. In September […]
Matrimony.com, one of India’s top matchmaking service providers, has agreed to buy ShaadiSaga.com, a Delhi-based online wedding services marketplace, for Rs 11 cr in cash. Shaadisaga.com had revenue of Rs 2.11 cr for the year-ended March, down by about 45% from the previous year due to COVID-19. Shaadisaga.com works by helping couples getting married to […]
Mumbai-based up-and-coming IT hardware manufacturer Panache Digilife said it intends to manufacture laptops and all-in-one PCs to target the consumer market, under the government of India’s production-linked incentive scheme. The company had qualified for receiving benefits under the PLI scheme last week, along with 13 others including Foxconn, Wistron, Dell, ICT, Dixon Technologies and Lava […]
Vodafone Idea CEO Ravinder Takkar has urged competitors Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio to gradually move away from daily data plans, and said such plans made ‘no sense’ as consumers don’t use data uniformly. Daily data or unlimited plans were introduced by Reliance Jio as part of its Welcome Offer when it launched its services […]
Wonderla Holidays said it has decided to reopen its hotel, Wonderla Resort, near the Wonderla amusement park in Bangalore, from Monday. It said lock-down rules still do not allow it to open the amusement park yet. Wonderla Resort, which is a kind of weekend getaway on the Bangalore-Mysore road, will be opened with a 50% […]
Indian Pharmaceutical major Zydus Cadila has become the world’s first to seek approval for a DNA-based vaccine against COVID-19, with trials indicating 100% efficacy in adolescents against moderate disease after three doses. The vaccine, which is likely to be approved by Indian authorities, also promises relief for those afraid of needles, as it can be […]
V2 Retail, the North India-focused general goods and garments retail chain, reported one of its best quarterly performances ever in the form of the Jan-Mar quarter, but said the subsequent three months have been ‘lost’ due to the second wave of COVID-19. “We were witnessing continuous improvement in demand till the lockdowns were announced due […]
Dr Reddy’s Laboratories, one of India’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, commercially launched 2DG COVID-19 treatment today, starting with the bigger cities. The drug, formulated by DRDO’s Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences in collaboration with Dr Reddy’s, is supposed to reduce the viral load in patients suffering from COVID-19. The drug, 2-deoxy-D-glucose, is supposed to […]
Jubilant Foodworks, which operates the country’s largest pizza and restaurant chain, said it expects safety concerns to drive consumers more and more towards bigger brands as it prepares for a major expansion over the next two years. The company said it will plans to open at least as many stores in the current financial year […]
Hinduja Global Solutions, one of India’s top pure-play business process outsourcing companies, has been able to turn the massive challenge posed by COVID lock-down restrictions into an opportunity, posting record profits for the year. Like many organizations that depend on thousands of staff working inside a single building, Hinduja Global Solutions found its working model […]
The confusion over the alleged freezing of the demat accounts of three big Mauritius-based investors in Adani group companies edged closer to being resolved, with National Securities Depository Ltd clarifying that the three accounts were frozen five years ago by a SEBI order. Adani Group divulged a clarification it received from NSDL, the agency which […]
Sobha Ltd, one of India’s largest real estate developers, said it will build a ‘Manhattan-like’ mini city at Yadavanahalli, which lies between Electronics City and Hosur towards the south east of Bangalore. Despite its somewhat removed location, the project is targeted at the well-to-do, with the three-bedroom flats costing upwards of Rs 90 lakh. Chairman […]
Adani Transmission, a part of the diversified Adani Group, disputed a report by financial newspaper Economic Times that said that NDSL had frozen the share accounts of three foreign investors who held nearly Rs 43,500 cr worth of stock in various Adani group companies. Economic Times had carried the news quoting an update published by […]
Lupin Ltd, one of the world’s largest generic drug makers, today said it received a warning letter from the US Food and Drug Administration relating to its US-based manufacturing plant located in Somerset, New Jersey. “We wish to inform you that the Company has received a warning letter from the US FDA for the company’s […]
Close on the heels of Titan Co, jeweler DP Abhushan too reported unprecedented growth during the COVID-19 impacted financial year, particularly the last three months. Against Titan Co’s 61% revenue growth, DP Abhushan Ltd reported an even higher growth of 152% in its top line for the three months ended March 2021. The company’s revenue […]
Wonderla, one of India’s top amusement park operators, reported that it had managed to recover about 77% of its revenue during the fourth and final quarter of FY21 that ended in March. The company, which operates water parks and amusement parks in South Indian states such as Kerala, Karnataka and Telangana, was able to maintain […]
Talbros, one of India’s largest automobile components makers, reported a 16% increase in its full-year revenue for the year ended March, making it one of the few companies in India to report full-year growth. Full-year growth was made possible by a whopping 73% jump in revenues for the fourth and final quarter than ended in […]
Finally, here is a piece of good news if you are in an investor in the real estate sector: Arihant Superstructures, one of the most prominent residential developers in the Mumbai region, sold a whopping 250 residential flats during the month of April and May — which coincided with the peak of the second wave […]
Baba Kalyani, chairman and managing director of India’s largest forging and metal components manufacturer Bharat Forge, today expressed the opinion that the current economic setback on account of the second wave of COVID-19 is of a temporary nature. “The lock down in India to curtail the spread of Covid has clearly had an impact on […]
SpiceJet, India’s fastest-growing airline, said it will offer a discount of up to 30% on its base fares to registered healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses and paramedics. Base fare excludes items like airport usage charges, taxes and so on. The offer is applicable for bookings and travel until 30 September, 2021. “To avail the benefits […]
