GAIL India, which is one of the promoter shareholder of Petronet, refuses to concede its right of first refusal on the 5.2 percent stake of Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Petronet. The multilateral lending agency plans to sell its 5.2 per cent stake in Petronet, which has been formed as a joint venture by the Government with non-public sector cha
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Indian Railways cut Rs 47 bn metro transport funding
Indian Railways cancelled the Rs 4,733 crore fund allocated under the metropolitan transport project (MTP) during the Railway Budget 2012-13. The railways cancelled the allocation primarily because allocation exceeded the absorption capacity of metropolitan transport projects located in Hyderabad, Che
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Indian Railways cut Rs 47 bn metro transport funding
Indian Railways cancelled the Rs 4,733 crore fund allocated under the metropolitan transport project (MTP) during the Railway Budget 2012-13. The railways cancelled the allocation primarily because allocation exceeded the absorption capacity of metropolitan transport projects located in Hyderabad, Che
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Dewan Housing mulls Rs 40 bn fund raising
In a communication to the stock exchange, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation informed that it plans to mop up Rs 4,000 crore through debentures. Of the Rs 4,000 crore, a maximum of Rs 3,000 crore would be raised through private placement of secured debentures in one or
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India on course to meet $1 trillion infra investment target
G Padmanabhan, Executive Director of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) remarked that the country is on course to meet its infrastructure investment target of $1 trillion during the ongoing 12th five-year plan (2012-17). Speaking at a conference in London, he said the funding process was working in a seamless manner and thing
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RBI introduces new provisioning norms
In an official statement, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said banks must make 3.75 percent provisioning, from March 31, 2014, for loans already restructured. The provisioning would rise further to 5 percent with effect from March 31, 2015, the statement said. The central bank also said that with effect from April 1, 2015, restructured accounts would be immediately classified as sub-standard. Non-performing asse
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ADB holds parleys with banks on IDF
Hun Kim, Country Director of Asian Development Bank (ADB) informed that the multilateral lending institution is discussing with several banks on participating in the infrastructure debt fund (IDF) floated by them. It is learnt that ADB plans to participate in the IDF floated by domestic banks through the NBFC route. The current regulatory framework allows IDFs to be floated eith
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Infra sector may attract PE fund if govt takes steps
According to a report by consulting firm Ernst & Young, infrastructure sector may attract private equity (PE) funds if the government takes steps, both policy and administrative, to boost investment activity in the sector. In its recently released private equity annual report titled ‘Second Innings – An industry in transition’, the firm said
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IDBI Bank reduces interest rates by 25 bps
Effective February 1, IDBI Bank reduced its deposit and lending rates by 25 basis points after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cut policy repo rate and banks' cash reserve ratio (CRR). In its third quarter review of monetary policy, RBI cut repo rate by 0.25 per cent and slashed CRR by the same margin to inject Rs 18,000 crore of liquidity into the syst
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Firms raise more capital through NCDs
Reports indicate that companies raised more than Rs 35,000 crore through issue of non-convertible debentures (NCDs) in 2012, which is higher than the Rs 12,753 crore garnered in the preceding year. Recently, HDFC issued Rs 250 crore NCDs with a green shoe option to raise another Rs 250 crore.The mortgage lender raised the amount to meet general corp