Angry with reform delays, India calls U.N. system ‘anachronistic’

Indian ambassador Ruchira Kamboj was speaking at a session convened by Russia that called for a discussion on how to make multilateralism effective “by defending the UN Charter”. File With another year of meetings on reforming the United Nations — and particularly the question of the expansion of the Security Council — coming to a … Read more

IPCA acquires significant stake in Unichem

IPCA Laboratories is acquiring 33.38% from the promoters of Unichem Laboratories (UL). Promoters before this transaction owned 50.94% of UL. Out of the balance, 9.85% was held by the institutions and 39.21% by the retail investors.  Transaction is announced @ Rs 440/ share aggregating to Rs 1,034.06 cr. This implies a premium of about 17% … Read more

Blinkit’s revised delivery executive pay structure faces protest

Earlier this month, Zomato owned Blinkit announced a revised pay structure for it’s delivery executives. Previously, they were being paid a fixed Rs 25 per delivery and peak-hour incentive of Rs 7 per trip It has now been revised to a minimum of Rs 15 per trip with a distance-based component This led to the … Read more

India races to get rich before it gets old as population passes China

A fleeting moment in western India on the evening of March 8 will remain etched in Nikita Punjabi’s memory forever: The first glimpse of her newborn daughter as the doctor held her up after delivery. Aniket Rai, nervously waiting during the birth, cried tears of joy when the nurse told him he had a baby … Read more

Equities, other risk assets face hit as $800 bn stimulus to fade, says Citi

Equities and other risk assets will take a hit when central banks withdraw as much as $800 billion of stimulus deployed to prop up the global economy, according to Citigroup Inc. The risk rally has been fueled by the injection of over $1 trillion of central bank liquidity, and high-frequency liquidity indicators suggest this is … Read more

Promoter partners investor for majority in Camlin Fine

Camlin Fine Sciences (CFS) currently has a promoter group shareholding of only 17.55%. Balance 38.73% is owned by institutions and remaining 43.72% by public. Of 17.55% promoter, 8.66% is owned by Ashish Dandekar Of 38.73% institutional, 21.1% is owned by Mauritius based long term investor Infinity Group. Both of them have decided to join together … Read more