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Moneylife Digital Team 16 June 2025
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has withdrawn a summons issued to senior advocate Arvind Datar in connection with its ongoing investigation into an employee stock option plan (ESOP) granted to Dr Rashmi Saluja by Care Health Insurance Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Religare Enterprises...

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KBS Sidhu 16 June 2025
Dequity and the Ghost of Convertible Debentures Past: When Finance Repeats Itself   In a recent piece titled Exit Equity; Enter 'Dequity' on the Global Stage, we examined the rise of Dequity, a hybrid financial instrument that blends elements of debt and equity, which is helping private...

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Dr Gopal Krishna 16 June 2025
“Fundamental rights are human rights and are, therefore, natural rights which are not conferred by the Constitution of India to take away. Sarv Mittra Sikri, the 13th chief justice of India has been proven right in subsequent judgments of the Supreme Court. Most notably, decisions in IR Coelho...

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India has just overtaken Japan to become the world’s fourth-largest economy, with nominal gross domestic product (GDP) clocking in at US$4.19trn (trillion). Yet, behind this headline triumph lies a serious contradiction. Nearly 65% of India’s population still relies on agriculture and allied...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
Just when vehicle owners thought they were done with compliance fatigue—having paid for smart number plates and e-registrations—they now find themselves staring at yet another bureaucratic hurdle: know-your-vehicle (KYV) verification. Rolled out quietly but enforced stringently since August...

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Ambareesh Baliga, a veteran investment adviser with nearly four decades of experience in India’s stock markets, finds himself in a frustrating battle, not with market volatility, but with cyber fraud and bureaucratic indifference.   Mr Baliga recently revealed through a post on the social...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
Israel launched a series of coordinated airstrikes across multiple Iranian cities in the early hours of Friday, dramatically escalating long-simmering hostilities into a full-blown military conflict. The attack, aimed primarily at Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, claimed the lives of several...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
In what is being called one of the gravest aviation tragedies in recent Indian history, an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crashed minutes after taking off from Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing at least 265 people including Gujarat's former chief minister (CM) Vijay Rupani and the family of and...

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In 2017, addressing the chartered accountants (CAs), the prime minister (PM) set out his wish for a doubling of the roster of the Big Four accounting firms with names that are desi. He had set out a time frame of five years.     It has been almost eight years and the noticeable change is...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued fresh guidelines aimed at easing the process of know-your-customer (KYC) updates, especially for accounts linked to government benefit transfers such as Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) and direct benefit transfer (DBT). However, RBI circular,...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
US-based proprietary trading firm Jane Street is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) over its derivatives trading activity spanning the past three years, according to a report by Reuters. The market regulator is probing whether the firm attempted to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
Indian benchmark indices concluded Friday on a soft note, with the NIFTY closing below 24,750. The Sensex dipped by 573.38 points (0.70%) to 81,118.60, and the NIFTY fell by 169.60 points (0.68%) to 24,718.60. This subdued market performance comes amid a week of varied, yet interconnected,...

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Over 20 years ago, I had written an article in AmarUjala, the popular newspaper in North India and I remembered this when I was reading the headlines in the Times of India (ToI) on 22 March 2025.    What do these headlines say? The same things—a Supreme Court judge has been caught with nearly...

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Ritwik Choudhury (Bar  and   Bench) 13 June 2025
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to journalist Kommineni Srinivasa Rao, who was arrested on June 9 over a panelist's allegedly derogatory remarks during a talk show on Sakshi TV.    The Bench of Justices PK Mishra and Manmohan noted that Rao himself had not made the statement and his...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 13 June 2025
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) at Ahmedabad on Friday admitted an insolvency plea filed by Indian Renewable Development Agency (IREDA) against Gensol Engineering Limited, owner of BluSmart.   A coram of Judicial Member Shammi Khan and Technical Member Sanjeev Kumar said, "The...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
Supriya Lifescience Limited (Supriya) is into manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in certain therapeutic segments, including anti-histamines, anti-allergic, vitamins, anti-asthmatics and anaesthetics. It claims to be the foremost exporter of products in these therapies. It...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
More than Rs5 crore in advisory and research fees have been routed through the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (SEBI) centralised fee collection mechanism (CeFCoM) as of 10 June 2025, signalling growing investor trust in the platform and a clear preference for dealing with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
INDIAN MARKET TRENDS From 6th June to 12 June 2025, ML Mid-cap Index, ML Small-cap Index, ML Micro-cap Index and ML Large-cap Index rose 1% each. The NIFTY ended flat. ML Mega-cap Index and the Sensex fell 1% each.                                                   FUND FLOWS Foreigners:...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 June 2025
India’s Cabinet approved two rail track doubling projects worth Rs6,405 crore, aimed at bolstering freight capacity by 49MT (million tonnes) annually across Jharkhand, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The 133km (kilometre) Koderma-Barkakana route, vital for coal transport and linking Patna to...

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Perplexity is your personal artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Swiss army knife for information discovery and curiosity. It's not just about answering questions; it's about empowering you to do more—whether you're looking to summarise content, explore new topics, dive deep into them or even...

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