Investment

Railways need innovative financing Rai: Railways needs - an innovative forms of financing. The Indian Railways (IR) needs to adopt an innovative forms of financing and more positive collaboration with the private sector to improve its infrastructure, says Vinod Rai,...

ETNs subject to regulations   Barclays Bank PLC said the iPath® MSCI India IndexSM Exchange-Traded Notes (ETNs) have been determined to be subject to certain regulations and recent circulars issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) relating...

4th SED Some 16 agreements of cooperation were be exchanged between industry players representing India and China at the fourth India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED). Announcing this in New Delhi on Oct 7, Xu Shaoshi, Chairman of China’s National Development...

Open for more trade     Singapore PM Lee calls on the President, Pranab Mukherjee, in New Delhi on October 5, 2016. India must make a "strategic decision" to encourage interdependence, more openness and a more trade-based economy for its trade to...

Arkema expands France’s Arkema plans to construct a new leading class polyester powder resin manufacturing facility, the first of its kind in India, on its existing resin platform in Navi Mumbai. The US$15 million project, targeted for completion in 2018,...

Telecom demand Sinha at Telecom Equipment & Services Export Council meet, in New Delhi on October 3, 2016. India’s demand for telecom equipment including mobile phones is estimated at US$30 billion by 2020, up from about US$20 billion in 2015-16, said Union...

Green investor ACP invests in ColdEX. Asia Climate Partner (ACP), a green private equity, is putting together US$150-US$200 million with another co-investor in a renewable project in India. “We are (now) looking to invest in a sizeable renewable energy company...

Lightbox for start-ups Talwar says Lightbox to invest in two sta.rt-ups this year. India-focused venture capitalist Lightbox will invest in another two or two companies this year, said its partner Sid Talwar. “We will be putting money in another one...

Tapping Kirana network Investors are making in-depth studies of the Indian market’s expansion from metros, cities, urban regions to rural towns and villages, led by the mobile broadband access for placing every dollar in start-ups to small corner shop “Kirana”,...

VC raises USD100m Mumbai-based Indian Quotient is in the midst of launching a USD100 million fund raising exercise in India and South East Asia for the Indian market. The fund will be for Indian Quotient’s investments in start-ups in India,...