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Moneylife Digital Team 09 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has directed Sungold Capital Ltd (SCL)’s chairman and managing director (CMD) Rajiv R Kotia to sell shares of that exceed the 15% ownership threshold a total of 1.54% of the company’s shares and deposit the entire sale proceeds into...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2025
A jury from Los Angeles has ordered healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to pay nearly US$1bn (billion) to the family of an elderly California woman who died from mesothelioma, ruling that the company’s iconic talc-based baby powder contained asbestos and caused her fatal cancer.   The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2025
Swaraj Green Power and Fuel Ltd has paid Rs6.20 lakh to settle enforcement proceedings with the market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) related to the company’s issuance of non-convertible redeemable preference shares (NCRPS).    The settlement resolves alleged...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2025
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the certificate of registration (CoR) of Jijamata Mahila Sahakari Bank Ltd, based in Satara (Maharashtra), due to inadequate capital and the lender's poor earnings prospects. RBI has asked Jijamata Mahila Sahakari Bank to stop its banking business...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs5 lakh on Oneview Corporate Advisors Pvt Ltd for lapses in its role as a registered merchant banker (MB). The penalty follows SEBI’s inspection of the firm conducted on 8 November and 12 November 2024...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has issued a post-enquiry show-cause notice (SCN) against Stockholding Services Ltd, formerly known as SHCIL Services Ltd, a SEBI-registered stockbroker. The notice highlights multiple regulatory lapses identified during a joint...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 October 2025
Manish Chaturvedi, Ashish Chaturvedi, Rajni Chaturvedi and Indus Strategy Financial Advisors Pvt Ltd have paid Rs1.76 crore to Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to settle a case related with alleged violations under the SEBI Act, 1992 and the SEBI Prohibition of Fraudulent and...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs6 lakh on Scient Capital Pvt Ltd, a registered portfolio manager, for multiple violations under the SEBI Portfolio Managers (PM) Regulations, 2020 and related guidelines.    The company has also been...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a joint and several penalties of Rs35 lakh on Sunny Bhatia (noticee 1), Surbhi Chopra Bhatia (noticee 2), Mamta Rani (noticee 3) and Ashok Kumar (noticee 4) for front-running trades of the Eastman group (big client)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 07 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has imposed a total penalty of Rs35 lakh on two former non-executive, independent directors of Brightcom Group Ltd (BGL) for irregularities in the company’s financial statements. Allam Raghunath has been fined Rs30 lakh, while...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2025
Fino Payments Bank Ltd has paid Rs5.88 lakh to settle adjudication proceedings initiated by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over alleged regulatory violations.   The proceedings were initiated for alleged violations of SEBI Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements (LODR)...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has settled the high-profile front-running case involving trades of the Marcellus group, with 14 individuals and entities agreeing to pay a combined settlement amount of Rs6.88 crore along with disgorgement of Rs3.88 crore, while...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed penalties of Rs46.50 lakh on American Express Banking Corp (AEBC), HDB Financial Services Ltd, a non-banking financial company (NBFC) and five cooperative banks for non-compliance with the directions issued by the banking regulator. The highest penalty of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has rejected an application filed by Vijay Lakshmi Praturi, promoter of TeleCanor Global Ltd, seeking exemption from making a mandatory open offer under the SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has levied a penalty of Rs3 lakh on DGS Capital Management Pvt Ltd (DGS), a registered portfolio manager, for failing to comply with key provisions of the SEBI (Portfolio Managers) Regulations, 2020. The action follows an...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 October 2025
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has suspended the registration certificate of First Overseas Capital Ltd (FOCL) for two months, citing violations of the net worth requirements mandated for merchant bankers.   FOCL, which has been registered as a merchant banker...

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It began with a footnote. A line item in the accounts of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL), a listed subsidiary of Vedanta Ltd (VEDL), revealed payments of nearly Rs1,060 crore in the first quarter (Q1) of FY25–26 for a so-called ‘brand fee’. At first glance, investors missed it. The bigger problem...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 October 2025
The Indian government has released draft rules under the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, setting out a detailed framework to govern India’s rapidly expanding online gaming industry. The rules, published by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY), are...

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Moneylife Digital Team 03 October 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued draft directions for the basic savings bank deposit (BSBD) account, proposing a revamp of rules to make such accounts more customer-friendly and aligned with the growing digitalisation of banking. The draft, released for public comments, aims to improve...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 October 2025
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a penalty of Rs31.80 lakh on Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) for failing to comply with certain directions regarding priority sector lending (PSL) targets and classification.   The statutory inspection of Indian Overseas Bank, conducted by RBI with reference...

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