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New Delhi: Motorcycle maker Royal Enfield on Wednesday said its total wholesales grew 11 per cent year-on-year to 86,978 units in September.The company had dispatched 78,580 units in September 2023.Sales in the domestic market grew 7 per cent to 79,326 units from 74,261 units in the same period last year, Royal Enfield said in a statement.Exports rose from 4,319 units in September last year to 7,652 units last month.B Govindarajan, CEO, Royal Enfield said, “We have registered consistent growth in the month of September owing to our recent launches. The 2024 Classic 350 continues to solidify its iconic status and popularity among riders and is performing well.”He added that the company's momentum will only increase as it continues to innovate and deliver pure motorcycling experience.

Mumbai Adani Airport Holdings is raising Rs 1,950 crore through non-convertible debentures (NCDs) with the primary objective of providing inter-company loans to various airports, including Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Mangalore, Jaipur, Guwahati and Thiruvananthapuram.The NCDs with a coupon rate of 9.35% per annum will primarily cover payments made to the Airports Authority of India relating to prior period regulatory assets approved by the Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA).The NCDs have received A+/Stable rating from both India Ratings and Crisil Ratings. Axis Bank and Trust Investment Advisors Pvt are the organisers of the issue which will open on September 30, 2024 with a tenure of 3 years, 11 months and 7 days.

Shares of Ola Electric Mobility declined over 4 per cent on September 30, pushing the stock below the Rs 100 mark for the first time since its listing on the bourses. Moreover, the stock has been in the red in 12 of the last 14 sessions.According to this, it has fallen by more than 16 percent in the last one month. At 12.22 pm, Ola Electric Mobility shares were trading at Rs 98.80 on NSE.The company recently launched its 'Network Partner Program' to expand EV penetration in tier-2 and tier-3 cities. Ola Electric has already onboarded 625 partners to expand its sales presence across India, and plans to reach 1,000 partners before the upcoming festive season.Brokerage firm HSBC pointed out in a recent note that it visited several Ola service stations and found many were overwhelmed with ser...

New Delhi: Public sector Punjab National Bank (PNB) has raised Rs 5,000 crore by issuing equity shares to qualified institutional investors.PNB said in a statement that, The bank allotted around 48.19 crore equity shares at an issue price of Rs 103.75 per share, which was at a discount of 4.96 percent to the floor price of Rs 109.16 per share.The bank said its QIP issue is open for subscription from September 23 to 26, 2024.The bank said that "The Bank received bids of Rs 41,734 crore for the QIP issue from qualified institutional buyers (QIBs), including mutual funds, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), insurance companies, etc., which is 16.7 times the base issue size of Rs 2,500 crore and 8.3 times the total issue size of Rs 5,000 crore".He said the capital raised through the QIP issue...

Shares of Tata Motors Ltd rose more than 2 per cent to Rs 986.4 in the afternoon on September 26 after its British arm, Jaguar Land Rover, announced plans to spend 500 million pounds ($669 million) on rebuilding one of its factories in England, which is set to start building electric SUVs.Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), maker of Range Rover and Land Rover vehicles, has announced plans to double its investment at its Halewood plant near Liverpool, taking total spending to £500 million over the coming years. The company has invested £250 million in the facility over the past 12 months, aiming to make it JLR's first fully electric plant.Despite its increased investment, JLR warned that the cost of its transition to electric vehicles (EVs) will be higher than initially estimated, because of waning c...

Shares of private lender Bandhan Bank Ltd fell on September 25 after its chief audit executive resigned to "explore alternative opportunities".In a stock exchange filing on September 24, Bandhan Bank said chief audit executive Ravi Lahoti has resigned and his last working day at the bank will be December 21, 2024."Ravi Lahoti, Chief Audit Executive of the Bank, has decided to explore alternative opportunities and has accordingly tendered his resignation from the services of the Bank vide a letter dated September 23, 2024," Bandhan Bank said in a stock exchange filing.At 10:55 am on September 25, Bandhan Bank shares were trading lower by 1.3 per cent at Rs 205.06 per share.Lahoti said in his resignation letter, "I have worked in the internal audit and AML domain for over 20 years, includin...

Moody's Analytics on Tuesday said that normalising growth in India will impact the performance of the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in 2025, as the Indian economy is projected to grow at 6.5 per cent in 2025 from an estimated 7.1 percent in 2024."Inflation in developing Asia will slow to 5.1 percent in 2024 and 4.9 percent in 2025, with sluggish economic inflation in China a key factor. Weak domestic demand will push Chinese domestic growth to 4.7 percent in 2024, well behind the official 5 percent target. Growth will slow to 4.6 percent in 2025," Moody's Ratings subsidiary said."Normalising growth in India will also impact the sector's performance. After a strong post-pandemic recovery to 7.8 percent in 2023, Indian gross domestic product (GDP) growth will slow to 7.1 percent in 2024 and 6....

Public sector National Buildings Construction Company (NBCC) Ltd said its wholly-owned subsidiary HSCC (India) Ltd has received an order.HSCC India has received an order worth Rs 1,260 crore from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India for setting up All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at Darbhanga, Bihar.The further scope of the order and execution timeline have not been specified by the company.Earlier this month, NBCC had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with cash-strapped MTNL Ltd to develop MTNL’s positive land block of around 13.88 acres in New Delhi. The project is said to be worth ₹1,600 crore.NBCC has approved the issue of bonus shares in the ratio of 1:2, which means shareholders will get one free share for every two shares held by them as ...

India's coal imports rose 40.56 percent to 25.23 million tonnes (MT) in July, according to data compiled by B2B e-commerce platform mjunction Services.The country's coal imports stood at 17.95 MT in the same month last fiscal.Coal imports also increased to 100.48 MT in the April-July period of the current fiscal year from 89.11 MT a year ago.Mjunction Managing Director and CEO Vinay Verma said that import demand is expected to pick up in the coming weeks ahead of the festive season next month."Non-coking coal imports witnessed a increase due to softening of prices in the seaborne market. However, coking coal volumes declined due to weak demand from steel mills," Mjunction Services said.The share of non-coking coal in total imports in July was 16.52 MT, as against 10.16 MT imported in the ...

The decline in employee headcount is not just limited to the IT sector. Public sector undertakings (PSUs) have also seen a decline in headcount in the last few years. All but four of the top 16 government-owned companies by market capitalisation have seen a decline in their headcount during FY24.A CNBC-TV18 analysis shows that 12 PSUs, including Coal India, State Bank of India (SBI) and Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), have cut their workforce by 23,306 in FY24 after cutting at the same level in FY23.The biggest decline in the number of employees was seen in Coal India, where 4% to 5% of its workers retire every year. The country's largest coal producer recorded a net reduction of 10,349 in the number of employees during the year.Its employee strength had declined by 9,340 in FY23. Th...