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India’s Adani Group to raise at least $1.5 billion via dollar bonds, says Bloomberg News

BENGALURU (Reuters) -India’s Adani Group is in talks with more than 10 global banks to raise at least $1.5 billion through dollar bond sales, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the plans. The bonds would be issued mainly under Adani Green Energy and Adani Energy Solutions, the group’s renewable energy and power …

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UK-bound Air India plane makes emergency landing in Moscow

MOSCOW (Reuters) – An Air India Boeing 787-800 passenger plane en route from India to Britain made a precautionary landing in Moscow on Wednesday due to “technical problems”, Sheremetyevo Airport said. The plane, en route from New Delhi to Birmingham, landed safely without any injuries to all 258 passengers and 17 crew members. The scheduled …

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India’s Reliance wins bid for govt incentives to make EV batteries

BENGALURU (Reuters) -Reliance Industries has won a bid under an incentives program which supports EV battery production, a statement from the Indian government said on Wednesday. Earlier this year, seven companies submitted bids to set up local manufacturing units for the production of advanced chemistry cells, or ACCs, under the government’s production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme. …

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Netflix will add disclaimers to Indian hijack drama after outrage over Hindu names

MUMBAI (Reuters) -Netflix said on Tuesday it will add new disclaimers to an Indian series about a plane hijack after social media outrage and government anger over what they said was Muslim hijackers being shown as Hindus. The series, called “IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack,” a fictionalised version of the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight …

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Indian PM Modi to start 2-day Singapore visit on Wednesday

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet with Singapore counterpart Lawrence Wong during a two-day visit to the city-state starting on Wednesday, Singapore’s government said. Modi will also meet Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and former Prime Ministers Lee Hsien Loong and Goh Chok Tong during the trip, his fifth to Singapore and …

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India’s AU Small Finance Bank seeks cenbank nod for universal bank license

BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s AU Small Finance Bank has sought approval for a universal bank license from the country’s central bank, the lender said on Tuesday. In April, the Reserve Bank of India released a set of criteria that small lenders needed to meet to become universal banks. The criteria included a five-year track record …

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India defence body approves proposals worth $17 billion to buy military assets

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s defence acquisition council approved on Tuesday 10 proposals worth 1.45 trillion rupees ($17.3 billion) to buy military assets including combat vehicles, aircraft and patrol vessels. The government said in a statement that 99% of the acquisitions will be from domestic sources. ($1 = 83.9370 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Shivam Patel)

SoftBank-backed OfBusiness plans up to $1 billion India IPO, exec says

By Aditya Kalra and Aditi Shah NEW DELHI (Reuters) – SoftBank-backed OfBusiness, an Indian shopping website that offers raw materials to businesses, is planning an Indian stock market offering worth up to $1 billion and is close to appointing bankers, a top executive told Reuters on Tuesday. The company is in active talks with Bank …

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Ex-head of Indian college where doctor was raped arrested for suspected graft

By Subrata Nag Choudhury KOLKATA (Reuters) -India’s federal police said it had arrested the former principal of R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata for alleged graft, after an investigation in the case of the brutal rape and murder of a young female doctor on the premises. Sandip Ghosh, who resigned as principal of the British …

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