India's Metro Man E Sreedharan suggested Gujarat government to rethink its approach to the Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar metro rail project. Speaking at MS University's 61st annual convocation in Vadodara, Sreedharan said Gujarat has lost the chance to get funding from Japanese government for the project. Sreedharan, who was the former managing director of Delhi
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C’garh to get $300 mn ADB loan to repair its roads
To repair over 900 kilometres of roads in Chhattisgarh state, the Asian Development Bank would provide $300 million loan to the State government, the Bank said in statement on December 11. The project would include works such as expanding roads for two-laning, building new sections, construction and strengthening of culverts and brigdes.
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Sadbhav’s arm achieves COD for Hyd-Yadgiri tollway
Hyderabad-Yadgiri Tollway (HYTPL), an SPV and a subsidiary of Sadbhav Engineering, has stated that it has achieved Commercial Operational Date (COD) for entire project length on December 10.
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Sebi registers 12 more alternative investment funds
In the last two months, twelve companies received approval from the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) for setting up Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). Since October 10, the market regulator registered 12 AIFs that include India Realty Fund, Dar Mentorcap Film
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NBFCs prefer raising funds via NCDs
Reports suggest that more and more companies are raising funds through non-convertible debentures (NCDs) in order to fund their expansion plan.
NCDs seem to be emerging as a preferred fund-raising option for companies, especially those from NBFC space, reports
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Housing finance arm may be merged with Indian Bank
Media reports suggest that Ind Bank Housing, the housing finance subsidiary of Indian Bank, may be merged with the parent company by the end of 2012-13, if all regulatory approvals fall into place. Indian Bank wants to merge its housing finance arm because it would help bolster the bankÂ’s retail book, bringing specialist home finance employees, and also as it wo
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IFC may participate in Religare’s banking foray
Financial services firm Religare, which plans to apply for a new banking licence, may receive equity contribution from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank. Reports suggest that IFC is willing to invest in ReligareÂ’s proposed banking entity. IFC
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NHB, ministry devise plan to protect bank loans to housing projects
Reports suggest that National Housing Bank (NHB) and finance ministry are devising a plan to prevent loans given by banks for projects which are stalled from turning worthless assets. According to the plan, the ministry wants public sector banks (PSBs) to transfer such projects to ARCs against securitisation (against future cash flows of the projects) and l
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MFIs asked to charge rates in sync with borrower ability
Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council Chairman C Rangarajan suggested micro finance institutions (MFIs) to charge interest rates according to the repayment ability of borrowers. He remarked that fixing the interest rate independent of the repaying capacity of the borrower is asking for disas
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Emerging mkt funds deploy huge amount in Indian mkt
Reports suggested that emerging market funds deployed a sizable amount of funds into Indian equity markets in 2012.These funds, that are a section of foreign institutional investors (FIIs), invest in markets such as India, China, South Korea and Taiwan, among others. On the other hand, India-focused funds witnessed sharp redemptions from their abroad clients during the year, quas