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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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
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Former minister calls for pvt investments in infra sector
Former Minister of State for Urban Development Sougata Roy remarked that land acquisition is not the only problem in infrastructure projects. He said this while pointing out the need for private sector participation for financing the projects. Addressing a seminar on infrastructure development in the eastern and north-eastern states organised by the Beng
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RBI mulls launch of inflation-indexed bonds
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) considers to launch inflation-indexed bonds (IIBs) in order to attract investors who buy gold for protection against inflation. RBI Governor D Subbarao informed reporters that the central bank tries to redesign IIBs after its introduction some years ago failed to attract
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Govt set to award Maharatna status to BHEL, GAIL
The high-level secretaries' panel headed by Cabinet Secretary Ajit Kumar Seth approved the proposal to award BHEL and GAIL the coveted Maharatna status. The status would give these public sector units greater financial autonomy. Agency reports indicate that the central government would issue formal orders to this e
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Tata Power suggests steps to boost power sector
Tata Power Managing Director Anil Sardana urges government to take policy measures to enable the power sector grow at 12 per cent every year. He said the power sector must grow at 12 per cent every fiscal in order to support a GDP growth of 7-8 per cent
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RIL drills 54 new wells in US shale gas projects
Weekly Insight learns from media reports that Reliance Industries (RIL) has drilled 54 new wells in three shale gas projects in America. During the first nine months of 2012-13, the company witnessed 16 per cent sequential growth in prod