Sensex slides on weak Rupee, FPI flight

MUMBAI: The weakening rupee and unabated selling by foreign funds weighed on investor sentiment on Dalal Street on Monday, pulling down sensex by 610 points to 85,103 points. A rate cut decision by RBI and strong GDP growth numbers for the Sept quarter failed to arrest the slide in stock prices, market players said.Nifty lost…

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Virat Kohli invests 40 crore in Agilitas Sports

BENGALURU: Ex-India captain Virat Kohli has invested Rs 40 crore in sports platform Agilitas Sports, co-founded by former Puma India MD Abhishek Ganguly. Agilitas is also acquiring One8, the sportswear brand co-created by Kohli, to fast-track its ambition of crafting India’s high-performance sportswear label.In April, Kohli ended his endorsement deal with Puma and has instead…

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Trai, DoT at loggerheads over charges for satcom spectrum

NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Trai and the department of telecom (DoT) are at loggerheads over fixation of satcom spectrum charges for the companies and other critical matters at a time when satcom players, such as Elon Musk’s Starlink and Sunil Mittal’s Bharti group-backed Eutelsat OneWeb wait for regulatory clarity before beginning commercial services in India,…

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India pricing not yet announced: Starlink

New Delhi: After putting up consumer prices for its India satcom services on its website, Starlink withdrew them and blamed a “glitch” that briefly made “dummy test data” visible. “The Starlink India website is not live, service pricing for customers in India has not yet been announced, and we are not taking orders from customers…

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Now verify returns that look too good to be true

MUMBAI: Monday marked a global first for Indian financial markets as NSE along with Care Ratings launched the country’s first Past Risk and Return Verification Agency (PaRRVA), an independent entity that will validate performance claims in the securities markets. This agency will make it harder for unregistered finfluencers to hoodwink investors into falling for their…

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India-US trade talks: US deputy ambassador for trade to visit India; discussions resume this week

The US Deputy Ambassador for Trade, Rick Switzer, will visit India on December 10 and 11 as New Delhi and Washington continue discussions aimed at concluding a fair and mutually beneficial bilateral trade agreement, ANI reported.Confirming the visit at a media briefing on Monday, Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said the trip would…

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