By Administrator_India Capital Sands Facebook India head Ajit Mohan was on Wednesday (Sep 2) questioned for about two two hours by Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology amid controversy over Facebook’s alleged bias in favour of the BJP. According to sources, Mohan admitted before the Parliamentary Committee that people at key positions in India office […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands New Delhi: The National High-Speed Rail Corporation Limited on Tuesday invited its first set of tenders for the 886 km long Delhi-Jaipur-Udaipur-Ahmedabad high-speed corridor to kick start preparations for formulating its detailed project report. This corridor is among the eight high-speed networks that the Railways is planning across the country, one of […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands New Delhi: Markets ended deep in the red on Monday ahead of the release the country’s GDP figures for the April-June period. India’s Annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for April-June 2020 slowed down to 23.9 percent, government data showed on Monday. The BSE Sensex fell 839.02 points or 2.13 percent to […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands New Delhi: Markets opened in the green on Monday with the BSE Sensex rising nearly 500 points in early trade led by gains in banking and financials. Major gainers in the Sensex pack were IndusInd Bank, Axis Bank, ONGC, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, HFDC, Bajaj Finance, RIL, ITC, LT and HCL […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands The Securities and Exchange Board of India has directed portfolio management service providers to disclose to clients the commission payouts they made to distributors. Experts say this will bring in more transparency. “From the perspective of clients, it will give them clarity whether the product being sold to them by an […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Pulling up the Centre for “hiding behind the Reserve Bank of India” (RBI), the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked it to clarify its stand within a week on the waiver of interest on loan repayments during the moratorium period. A Bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan said the government had failed to clear […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Yields fell on Tuesday after the Reserve Bank of India said it would buy and simultaneously sell Rs 20,000 crore of bonds from the market in two equal tranches. Such buy-sell transactions are commonly called Operation Twist. Under this mechanism, the central bank buys long term bonds and sell short-term bonds. […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands After several rounds of hearings and a year later, the Supreme Court has reserved its judgment on the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) case. On the last day of hearing on Monday, the court observed that if telecom companies are unwilling to pay their dues, it would direct the Union government to cancel their spectrum […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands South Korean diplomat Chang Song-min — former aide of South Korean ex-President Kim Dae-Jung – has told the media that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is comatose. He claimed that the North Korean leader’s health is fast deteriorating and his sister Kim Yo-jong has already been declared the de facto […]
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Asian stocks were up on Friday morning, ending the week on a high on the back of a strong session overall for U.S. markets on Thursday and despite investor concerns over the U.S. economic recovery. Stocks fell during the previous session after data released by the U.S. on Thursday showed that […]
