As per SOPA estimates, the actual area in Maharashtra is 36.390 lakh hectare, which is 10% less than the government estimates of 40.433 lakh hectare. Soyabean output in Maharashtra is estimated to rise by 32% to 38.4 lakh tonne for this year.

Caracas, which buys medicines and other products from India, is looking for alternative payment methods after the United States imposed stringent sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA in a bid to push out President Nicolas Maduro.

Management continues to focus on liquidating Rs 12,300-crore inventory and scaling up the rental portfolio (DCCDL). We maintain earnings estimates for the erstwhile merged entity (despite demerger of DCCDL) awaiting greater clarity on adjustments/reconciliation between DLF and DCCDL numbers (post-demerger).

The production is based on orders received from the customers and hence management is confident that sales despatches would pick up over the next 2-3 quarters, driving an uptick in sales and normalised inventories.

Sugarcane arrears in Maharashtra have now mounted to Rs 5,000 crore and industry sources claim the position is likely to worsen.

Overseas subsidiary performance is expected to turn around which coupled with gradual improvement in domestic margins will enable improvement in the overall margins.

As APHS concludes its capex cycle and loss-making ventures breakeven, the stage is set for APHS to double Ebitda and reduce capex to one-third over FY19–21.

Fino Payments Bank aims to break even in the next 18-24 months, executive vice president and head-products & alliances Ashish Ahuja tells Mitali Salian.

The board had been holding regular workshops with both farmers and buyers to encourage exports, he said, adding that the board had taken huge efforts to ensure that more mango growers register their orchards with MangoNet.

he bank said it has purchased loans aggregating Rs 19.24 billion through the direct assignment route under the home loan arrangement with Housing Development Finance Corporation, during the quarter ended March this year.

VEDL’s H2FY19 operating numbers were mixed. Key highlights, O&G production fell 2% due to natural decline at Mangla field, though gas volumes were better; production at Zn-India was lower due to geo-technical problems at RA mine and FY19 silver volumes missed 650-700t guidance.

The bank, which witnessed a spike in NPAs in its home loan portfolio post the merger of the associate banks, expects the NPA levels to dip with improvements in underwriting and recoveries.

Established in February 2009, Star Union Dai-ichi Life’s (SUD Life) premium income stood at Rs 1,211 crore, while its profit after tax stood at Rs 55 crore during April-December 2018-19.

The Indiabulls board has constituted a reorganisation committee headed by SS Mundra, independent director on the board of Indiabulls and former RBI deputy governor, to undertake necessary decisions in relation to the proposed merger.

The concept of modern malls in India has been slow in catching up with the trend of stocking flowers. The trade has been traditionally reserved for road-side vendors.  

India produces 6-7 million tonne raw cashew per annum, and was till recently the leading supplier of kernels to the global markets.

CAI’s current estimates for the North Zone, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are lower by 1 lakh bales each compared to its previous month estimate.

To make matters worse, a sizeable number of labourers from Odisha are employed in the Surat textile industry, said Ashish Gujarati, president of Pandesara Weavers' Association.

Outstanding promoters’ pledged shares were Rs 1.95 lakh crore, which is about 1.38% of the total BSE-500 Index’s market capitalisation in March 2019.

In the next three decades the deregulation of the steel market (abolition of freight equalisation) and imports having been put under open general license led to a paradigm shift to the concepts of supply, capacity creation through differential technologies, SME’s role, demand assessments, competitiveness, pricing and export strategies.

There is nothing further the government can do, Kumar said, adding that there is liquidity, partial credit enhancement and interest rates have moderated. Asked about the progress made in the resolution of stressed NBFC Dewan Housing Finance (DHFL), Kumar said: “That you should ask the company.”

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the FY20 Budget abolished MDR charges for all merchants having a turnover of over Rs 50 crore which would lead the payment companies taking a hit on their margins.

We note the stock price correction of 30% over the past four months offers an attractive entry price and we retain our 'Buy' rating with a DCF-based target price of Rs 400.

While we like the company’s diversified segmental presence, we moderate our order inflow and execution assumptions due to the ongoing economic slowdown and slower traction in railway EPC projects.

A Nielson study has highlighted that OOH enjoys significant advantages over conventional forms of offline advertising

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Traditionally, our response to laws failing to arrest healthcare violence has been to simply increase the quantum and severity of punishment the next time.

The impression was reinforced when Rajnath Singh, and not Shah, was appointed last month to head the 15- member high-power ministerial committee coordinating with states on ensuring movement of essential supplies during the lockdown.

When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts

Parliamentary panel’s recommendations aren’t bold enough, and in some areas, they are even regressive.

As more governments integrate the service—Himachal Pradesh was latest to do so, on April 21—one can expect traffic to increase.

Idealist notions of the State overtaking the Market as the one in charge are unfounded.

“The export without permission would have violated the law, thus, enforcement of such award would be violative of the public policy of India”, the SC said.

To bounce back from the pandemic quickly, India needs a stimulus package of at least 5% of GDP that focuses on broad-based development in laggard eastern states.

Leaders should take a decision when they have 40-70% of the information required for taking that decision.

Not only has the registration of migrant workers by states been unsatisfactory, but state welfare boards’ capacities to offer assistance also varies, hampering daily wage labourers’ access to social and food security during the crisis

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This trend continues even for local governments, which come to rely more on state transfers to run the administration.

WHO’s Solidarity and Oxford’s RECOVERY trials can give a clearer picture on some drugs that showed early promise.

Covid-19 could benefit the dairy industry as consumers could shift from meat-based to dairy-based protein. The govt may consider reducing GST on ghee and milk fat from 12% to 5% .

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However, the High Court rejected this invocation of Rule 165, ruling that the it specified only the payability conditions of fees, and not the chargeability of it.

An RT-PCR test takes several hours for the result to be available. We cannot make a patient who comes with a non-Covid-19 problem wait till that result is available.