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1 month ago | 
business-standard.com | Amritha Pillay
Reliance Industries gas dispute: Also receives liquidated damages levy notice over battery PLI milestone delay
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
rediff.com | Sharleen D'Souza |Amritha Pillay
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies are expected to witness pressure on volumes in the October-December quarter. However, price hikes will help push up revenues, said brokerages. The volumes may be impacted as persistent weak urban demand may play out in the performance of consumer companies in the third quarter (Q3) of 2024-25 (FY25).
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
rediff.com | Dev Chatterjee |Amritha Pillay |Ishita Ayan Dutt
After subdued earnings in the first half amid global headwinds, India Inc is taking a cautious approach on their capital expenditure (capex) for the second half of the financial year ending March 2025, according to management commentary. Minutes from the October monetary policy meeting show the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) optimism about private investments picking up.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
business-standard.com | Amritha Pillay
NTPC arm NTPC Green Energy, with the launch of its initial public offering (IPO), looks to utilise the proceeds for its capital expenditure (capex). Gurdeep Singh, chairman and managing director of NTPC and NTPC Green, spoke with Amritha Pillay in an interaction in Mumbai. He discussed capacity expansion plans and how the company would balance presence between fossil and green sources of power. Edited excerpts:
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Amritha Pillay
But can this approach succeed in the diamond industry, where exclusivity is often the main attraction? Over the past three years, Trent has achieved …
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
rediff.com | Amritha Pillay
Reliance Industries’ (RIL’s) oil-to-chemicals (O2C) business is likely to remain under pressure for the remaining of the current financial year, according to analysts and company executives. IMAGE: A guard walks past the Reliance Industries logo near the entrance of Dhirubhai Ambani Knowledge City in Navi Mumbai. “Management guides for softness for the next couple of quarters in both retail and O2C businesses,” analysts at BOB Capital Markets noted in an after-results report on RIL.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
business-standard.com | Amritha Pillay
Experts at BCG see India showing signs of having the appropriate supply chain to become an exporter in the goods space. Marc Gilbert, managing director (MD) and senior partner, BCG Canada and global lead, BCG center for geopolitics, and Nishant Gupta, MD and senior partner, BCG India, spoke in an interview with Amritha Pillay in Mumbai to discuss decarbonisation, impact from West Asia tensions and geo-political concerns. Edited excerpts:
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
rediff.com | Ishita Ayan Dutt |Sohini Das |Amritha Pillay |Shine Jacob
Truck movements across the India-Bangladesh border are on the rise, with increasing rentals signalling a trade recovery between the two South Asian nations. Yet, geopolitical tension looms large, with Bangladesh now under an interim government for nearly two months. Indian businesses are seeing improvements in their operations on a month-on-month basis, with the flow of goods to and from Bangladesh slowly normalising.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
rediff.com | Amritha Pillay
For Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the September 2024 quarter (Q2FY25) may turn out to be yet another weak one as refining margins drag, say analysts. Two brokerage firms — ICICI Securities and Nuvama — expect a 1-13 per cent dip in reported profits in Q2FY25 from a year ago. Kotak Institutional expects a modest 2.2 per cent rise. Revenue, at best based on available analyst estimates, could rise up to 4 per cent.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
rediff.com | Amritha Pillay
UK-based Vedanta Resources is looking to start copper production at its Konkola copper mines (KCM) in Zambia and is eyeing to serve global and Indian markets, according to company executives. Promoted by billionaire Anil Agarwal, the miner in November 2023 regained control of the copper mines and smelter, which the Zambian administration had seized in 2019, but needed to pay creditors of the mines to revive operations.
