Dish TV India, one of the largest direct-to-home satellite broadcasters in the world, said a shareholder resolution calling for the removal of its chairman and certain directors as proposed by YES Bank cannot be implemented without the approval of the government and lenders, and therefore, the DTH company has sought permission to postpone the annual […]
The Securities Appellate Tribunal has stayed an order by the stock markets regulator imposing strict restrictions on stock broker Way2Wealth in the ‘NSE leased line’ case. The Securities and Exchange Board of India had, two weeks ago, imposed penalties and restrictions on several parties, including the National Stock Exchange, for facilitating or indulging in unfair […]
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries today announced a list of concrete steps to address investor concerns about certain relationships that it has with a couple of entities and loans allegedly extended to another firm. Sun Pharma stock rose 4.3% on the clarification. ADITYA MEDISALES First, Sun Pharma will move the distribution activities of its India domestic formulations […]
Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare said it has set up a special committee to evaluate the bids submitted by various parties to invest money into the company. It said the company has received binding offers from the Manipal – TPG consortium and the Munjal & Burman family offices, while non-binding expressions of interest has been received […]
The Supreme Court has directed the government of India to set up a committee to suggest reforms in rules and regulations governing accounting and auditing services companies in India. The three-member committee has been asked to suggest a revamped regulatory mechanism for big auditing firms within two months. The order came in a public interest […]
Nandan Nilekani, the stand-in chairman of Infosys Ltd today gave his stamp of approval to the investigations conducted in the context of corruption allegations around the IT company, and suggested that the company and its founder Narayana Murthy will be able to develop a ‘trusting relationship’ going forward. “I am fully persuaded, as is the […]
Indian promoters are unwilling to give total management control to professional boards and managers, a survey by Assocham has revealed. A majority of the corporate firms have promoters’ holding well over 50 per cent and even those with much lower stake are not willing to bet fully on professionals, found the survey that was based […]
Infosys founder and former chairman N R Narayana Murthy is all set to lay his cards on the table on his recent allegations about possible corruption at Infosys at a conference call with investors today at 6:30 PM. UPDATE: Murthy’s call has been reportedly postponed to next week. The call comes five days after Infosys […]
Infosys Ltd director board today came out strongly in support of ex-CEO Vishal Sikka and issued a strong rebuttal to a letter released by Infosys founder Narayana Murthy. Earlier in the day, Murthy was scathing in his review of the actions taken by the company and its board in addressing concerns of poor accountability and […]
Shareholders of Raymond Ltd rejected the sale of apartments in the company’s headquarters JK House to certain promoters. Chairman of the company Gautam Singhania had urged shareholders to vote against the resolution as the sale of the apartments would cause losses to the company as a whole. Four duplex flats were let to four members […]
Industry association ASSOCHAM, which has members from most of the big industrial groups in India, today said the opaque nature of decision making in India should be done away with to prevent incidents like the latest ‘corporate espionage’ involving top industrial houses in India. In a statement, the association said: “One fails to understand what […]
Jignesh Shah’s Financial Technologies India Ltd asked Bombay Stock Exchange to specify the exact basis on which the exchange, which held unsuccessful negotiations to buy a stake in MCX, was questioning the company’s decision to sell most of its stake in MCX to the Kotak group at a discount to market price. “We reiterate that […]
