Sandeep Singh

The capital infusion will make Carlyle the largest shareholder in PNB Housing. This despite the fact that both the government and PNBHF publicly committed to ensuring that PNB maintains a 26% stake.

According to the data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday, currency with public rose by Rs 23,145 crore in the fortnight ended May 21.

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Hyundai Motor India, alongside group company Kia Motors, accounted for one in every three vehicles sold in April in the highly-competitive UV market.

The absence of a stringent nationwide lockdown has been a silver lining, it has ensured that industrial economic activity continued even if at a reduced level.

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Kotak, MD of Kotak Mahindra Bank, also emphasised the “need to be very cautious” about opening up the economy even after June, calling it a “very difficult dilemma” for states, and saying a lot depends on the progress made on the vaccination front.

He said if we can vaccinate a larger percentage of people and move our vaccination to around 15 crore a month by August — that rate would start providing the comfort on gradual opening up thereafter.

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Stating that the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on lower income people and has pushed people back into poverty, he said that we will have to take coordinated steps to ensure that our economy has the foundational strength to move forward.

While the currency with the public has been rising over the last 14-month period, since the pandemic broke out, its pace slowed after July 2020, in one with decline of cases. It however gathered momentum in February 2021 as the cases started rising.

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Markets buoyed by decline in Covid-19 cases and business moving from informal sector to better placed listed universe.

According to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), while the direct investment to India in FY21 stood at $54.665 billion, FDI by India amounted to $11.299 billion, thereby resulting into a net FDI of $43.336 billion.

Unlike a year ago, the workers have stayed put thus far — however, this may change if the Covid situation does not improve and the shutdown extends for another 2-3 weeks, company officials and union leaders watching the labour dynamics in this industrial ecosystem said.

The VRS scheme brought for MDFVPL’s Patparganj, New Delhi unit, is available for eligible employees till May 31. It has been brought in by the new management that has recently taken charge of the company.

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Steel, the most commonly used input in construction sector and industries, is at all-time highs, as most metals including base and precious metals prices have gone through the roof over the last one year.

According to the data released by the Reserve Bank of India, the currency with public rose by Rs 15,919 crore in the fortnight ended April 23 to cross the Rs 28 lakh crore mark for the first time.

The RBI’s decision to buy Rs 35,000 crore worth of bonds in May would help the market in absorbing a portion of the Rs 1.16 lakh crore of market borrowings by government during the month.

Market participants seem to be taking solace from the government decision not to go for a full-scale lockdown, the impending extension of vaccination to all adults, and hopes of things normalising in a couple of months.

The benchmark Sensex — which gained 790 points, or 1.6 per cent, on Wednesday — has risen by1,855 points or 3.87 per cent in the last three trading sessions. The Sensex closed at 49,733, while the Nifty rose 212 points to 14,864.55 on Wednesday.

Between March and June 2020, people withdrew cash heavily from bank branches and ATMs in the wake of the lockdown, and as dependence on cash transactions rose.

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