The mandate of the group includes analysing current tax structure of all forms of tobacco, including smokeless tobacco, and suggesting various tax rate models for consideration in the preparation of FY23 and future Union budgets. Key points to note – The idea is to have a road map for reducing tobacco demand as per World … Read more
Key points to note – Solution has been developed by Airtel’s in-house engineering team – though doesn’t seem like a big deal for a giant like Airtel. It encompasses features ranging from app development, content hosting, curation and lifecycle management to search and discovery, analytics and monetisation models (advertising, subscriptions, transactions). Raj TV and Eros … Read more
Godrej Group flagship firm Godrej & Boyce on Tuesday said it aims to generate over one-third of its overall revenues from environment-friendly products by this fiscal end. The company aims to achieve the target as part of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals along with the investment targets for the next 10 years. The … Read more
Earlier on January 17, 2021, Metropolis Healthcare had approved the acquisition of Hitech Diagnostic Centre and its arm Centralab Healthcare Services in a combination of cash and equity shares deal. At that time, it was cash consideration of Rs 511 crore and equity consideration of up to 4,95,000 fully paid-up equity shares of Rs 2 each. Now the … Read more
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio to inform the government by October 29 whether they would opt for the four-year moratorium on adjusted gross revenue- (AGR-) related dues, which is part of the relief package approved last month. Further, three months have been given to service providers … Read more
Reliance’s solar unit Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd (RNESL) will buy preferred shares of German firm NexWafe worth 25 million euros ($28.82 million). NexWafe is developing and producing monocrystalline silicon wafers grown directly from inexpensive raw materials, going directly from the gas phase to finished wafers. This is expected to give solar manufacturers a significant … Read more
On October 15, 2021, L&T announced the launch of L&T Edutech (LTE) – it’s entry into the rapidly growing virtual education sector. It has now appointed Sabyasachi Das as the CEO of this Company. Key points to note – Sabyasachi is a Cognizant veteran having spent more than 22 years at the Company across various … Read more