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Private equity investments witnessed a robust yearly growth in October with 72 PE deals garnering around USD 3.7 billion, even as merger and acquisition activity saw a downtrend, a report said on Thursday. According to Grant Thornton's monthly PE Dealtracker, private equity/venture capital transactions reported 22 per cent and 25 per cent increase in deal volumes and values, respectively as compared to October 2018. The rise in PE deal values was largely driven by the corporate tax rate cut, which has improved both investor sentiment and confidence. Last month, the average deal size stood at USD 52 million, up from USD 28 million recorded in September 2019. "There were 72 deals aggregating to USD 3.7 billion reported in October 2019. Upbeat PE/VC activity during the month offsets the shortfall in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity," Pankaj Chopda, Director, Grant Thornton India LLP said. "The key investments were primarily to pare debt, expand markets and capitalise on ...

After a record-setting 2019, PE/VC investments in 2020 are off to a good start, said Vivek Soni

Uncertainty over the impact of Covid-19 is expected to act as a significant headwind to Indian PE/VC investments

The latest quarter witnessed 14 PE-VC investments worth $100 million or more, down from the 20 such transactions in the same period last year

This comes as seed investments in India during the January-March quarter, which was hit by the lowest level in five quarters

At $2.2 billion, large deals declined by over 70 per cent on a year-on-year basis in the same period

Medical inbound tourism, already on the rise, will get a boost with addition of Tier-II and -III hospitals

The government's decision of upholding power purchase agreements as well as the opening up of railways, city gas distribution, and electricity supply to the private sector, are welcome steps

The Union Budget had proposed on Saturday that NRIs have to pay up taxes on global earnings, if they're not paying in any other jurisdiction or country, generating much debate

'The disappointment is on the lack of bold, out of the box measures to tackle the current economic slowdown'

Slowdown in economic growth has taken a clear toll on revenue growth

It has restored confidence of businesses as well as provided on-ground support that MSMEs need and farmers deserve, Co-founder of Udaan said

Abolishing DDT will attract investments, said Ajit Menon, CEO of PGIM India Mutual Fund

The FM disagreed with experts who termed the new tax regime complex and unavailing saying it would benefit some taxpayers, if not all

Kumar said the idea behind the listing of LIC was to "bring in more transparency and allow the company to share gains with its stakeholders"

On Saturday, the benchmark indices closed near their day's lows, indicating further selling pressure on the following trading day

The tax proposals are aimed at stimulating growth, simplifying tax structure, bringing ease of compliance and reducing litigation

Economists and industry leaders said the budget proposals would provide some support to growth over the longer term but were insufficient to give it an immediate boost

Finance minister clarified that only Indian income of NRIs is proposed to be taxed under the new provision

Real estate developers' apex bodies CREDAI and Naredco have also expressed disappointment over the Budget as their demand of one-time restructuring of builders' loan was not met

Has Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman delivered a fiscally prudent and growth-oriented Budget 2020? Business Standard Chairman T N Ninan and Editorial Director A K Bhattacharya discuss

He said the Budget gives an option to individuals to migrate to a new regime by foregoing their existing exemptions and deductions for a lower tax rate

He further said if the government will be able to achieve disinvestment target of 2020-21 then the Budget will be very successful

She further said that many people have been speculating that the fiscal deficit would cross 4%

An evaluation of 13,000 MSMEs using the CRISIL Quantix database shows that working capital comprises over half of their need for debt

Power ministry has been planning it for two years, but with limited success

15 entities owe the government about Rs 1.47 trillion in past dues -- Rs 92,642 crore in unpaid licence fee and another Rs 55,054 crore in outstanding spectrum usage charges

But receipts from firms stand at a whopping Rs 1.33 trillion for FY21

The retail inflation that for several months remained in the comfort zone of the central bank has started inching up and crossed the 7 per cent mark during December 2019

Tourism bodies say Indians spending Rs 9,000 cr abroad abroad due to poor domestic infra, which cannot be improved with this allocation

There are 13 unions in LIC, and employees and officers affiliated to 11 unions were on protest

In July presenting her maiden Budget, Sitharaman had spoken for 2 hours 17 minutes

National powermen body to stage protests against 'anti-people' proposals

FM says country's macroeconomic parameters are sound

Price increase brought on by spike in National Calamity Contingency Duty announced in Budget

The size of the UP Annual Budget 2020-21 is expected to breach the historic mark of Rs 5 trillion

Finance ministry to come out with detailed rules on Vivad Se Vishwas Bill in a couple of days

"All these expenditures are unlikely to be imparting any fresh growth stimulus to the Indian economy," he argued

India's GDP growth is expected to slip to a decadal low of 5 per cent this fiscal, pressured by domestic factors like drop in consumption, as well as global issues

"We have not made up our minds as yet (on the removal of all exemptions)... We are trying step by step, move forward and no particular timeline given," she said

Budget estimates fiscal deficit to be at 3.4%, within permissible limit of FRBM target

Industry estimates peg advertising dues owed by BOC to the media industry at ₹1,800 crore. According to the sources cited above, the ministries and departments owe ₹350-450 crore to BOC. Sources say the health and family welfare ministry owes over ₹60 crore to BOC, the finance ministry hasn’t paid over ₹35 crore and the rural development ministry still has to clear advertising bills of over ₹25 crore.

While media organisations invest money, time and effort to create content, the digital platforms display the content without paying for it. Digital cos and their advocates argue that the inclusion of the content on their site or engine has directed traffic to news cos. But this traffic comes stripped of revenue, which is collected by Google and Facebook.

Facebook and Google cornered nearly 70 per cent (Rs 11,500 crore) of online ad revenues from India in 2018-19, a market pegged at Rs 28,000 crore by 2022. The Government of India must resist a digital colonisation, where the sweat and toil of Indians is drained out of the country while local communities and businesses are destroyed.

While ‘Ramayan’ has clocked highest viewership for any show on a Hindi GEC in recent times, due to ‘Mahabharat’ DD Bharati entered in the top five channels’ list for the first time ever.