Equity benchmarks ended higher on Friday helped by buying in index major Reliance Industries along with fresh foreign fund inflows. Extending its previous day’s rally, the 30-share BSE benchmark climbed 203.01 points or 0.34 per cent to settle at 59,959.85. During the day, it jumped 376.33 points or 0.62 per cent to 60,133.17.
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Byju’s takes Rs 300 crore unsecured loan from Aakash (28-10-2022)
Educational technology giant Byju’s has taken a loan of Rs 300 crore from its subsidiary Aakash Educational Services (AESL), which it acquired for nearly $1 billion last year. AESL, in its filing with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, said that Think and Learn – the parent firm of Byju’s – is in need of funds for its ‘principal business activities’. It said the board of directors of the company at its meeting on October 3, subject to the approval of the members at the general meeting, has given its approval for granting the unsecured loan to Think and Learn for an amount not exceeding Rs 300 crore.
Record sales drive Maruti Suzuki Q2 net over 4-fold (28-10-2022)
Maruti Suzuki India on Friday reported an over four-fold increase in consolidated net profit to Rs 2,112.5 crore in the second quarter ended on September 30, 2022, riding on record sales. The company had posted a consolidated net profit of Rs 486.9 crore in the same period last fiscal, Maruti Suzuki India said in a regulatory filing. Total revenue from operations was at Rs 29,942.5 crore as against Rs 20,550.9 crore in the year-ago period.
Don’t Miss Signs Of Economic Slowdown! (28-10-2022)
Don’t be surprised if growth in the second half of the financial year drops below 4%, which is where it was in the year before the pandemic, warns T N Ninan.
Kerala govt keen on solution to Byju’s ‘resignatons’ (28-10-2022)
The Kerala government on Thursday called for a meeting with executives from Byju’s on November 2 to find an ‘amicable solution’ regarding forced resignations of nearly 170 Kerala-based employees of the edtech firm. Though a meeting was called by the officials of the labour department on October 25, the company did not participate in it, citing short notice. “We are trying to solve this issue in an amicable and re-conciliating fashion.
Indians divided over Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition (28-10-2022)
With billionaire Elon Musk closing the deal to buy Twitter and firing the social media firm’s four top executives, twitterati in India on Friday seemed divided with many who were vocal against content moderation on the platform hailing the development while others sounding a note of caution. Musk has completed his $44 billion (one billion=100 crore) takeover of Twitter and fired the social media company’s four top executives, including CEO Parag Agrawal and legal executive Vijaya Gadde, according to the New York Times. Musk singled out Gadde, 48, criticising her for her role in content moderation decisions at the company, the report said.
Parag Agrawal’s 11-month tenure as Twitter CEO ends (28-10-2022)
When Parag Agrawal was appointed CEO of Twitter in November 2021, the IIT graduate joined a steadily growing club of executives from India rising to the top of global corporations, but the 38-year-old executive’s brief tenure at the helm of the social media giant was challenging and chaotic.
Start-ups brace for long funding winter (28-10-2022)
On a cloudy Monday this month, Mohammed Irshad flew from Kochi to Gurugram to attend an exclusive investor networking event. Among a handful of founders selected for the event, Irshad was to pitch his peer-to-peer learning start-up Notespaedia for funding in front of top venture capital investors such as AngelBay, Elevation Capital, and Inflection Point Ventures. He failed to woo them, but the feisty entrepreneur was determined to continue his hunt.
Sports, New OTT Game In Town (28-10-2022)
Why will JioCinema live-stream the FIFA World Cup 2022 games for free?
Start-up entrepreneurs double their donation in FY22 (28-10-2022)
Start-up entrepreneurs nearly doubled their contribution to philanthropy in 2022 but their numbers shrank. They decreased to only three (from five) in the top 100 of the Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List of 2022 which was released on Thursday. Over the year, no new start-up whizz kid joined the list either. The three start-up entrepreneurs who made it to the list contributed collectively Rs 166 crore in FY22, nearly double that of Rs 83 crore in FY21.