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Direct-to-Home operator Dish TV will convening an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on March 3 to seek shareholders' approval for the appointment of four new independent directors. The EGM would be held virtually through video conferencing and other audio-visual means, said a notice by Dish TV. Dish TV's largest shareholder Yes Bank Ltd (YBL) and the promoter family led by its former chairman Jawahar Lal Goel are engaged in a legal battle over board representation in the company. The four independent directors sought to be appointed are Sunil Kumar Gupta, Madan Mohanlal Verma, Gaurav Gupta and Lalit Behari Singhal. The company's board had announced their appointments in December last year, which was the first major appointment after the departure of its former chairman Jawahar Lal Goel. Earlier on December 30, shareholders of Dish TV had rejected a proposal for adoption of audited standalone and consolidated financial statements for FY21 and FY22 in the AGM. YBL, having over 24
Sebi on Friday tweaked its operational circular on credit rating agencies (CRAs), asking them to have a detailed policy by March-end in respect of non-submission of crucial information, including quarterly financial numbers, by the issuers. Also, the detailed policy should contain methodology in respect of assessing the risk of non-availability of information from the issuers, including non-cooperative issuers and the steps to be taken under various scenarios in order to ascertain the status of non-cooperation by the issuer company. Further, CRAs will have to follow a uniform practice of three consecutive months of non-submission of no-default statement (NDS) as a ground for considering migrating the ratings to INC (issuers not cooperating) and need to tag such ratings within 7 days of three consecutive months of non-submission of NDS. The CRA in its judgement may migrate a rating to the INC category before the expiry of three consecutive months of non-receipt of NDS. In its fresh
Regulator Sebi on Monday barred 14 entities from the securities market for four years and imposed a penalty totalling Rs 70 lakh on them in a case pertaining to front-running by some former dealers of Reliance Securities Ltd and their connected entities. They have been directed to pay the fine within 45 days, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said in its order. In addition, they have been asked to disgorge Rs 4.23 crore of unlawful gains made by them, along with an interest of 12 per cent. In its order, Sebi found that entities with the help and cooperation of each other/ by being in nexus with each other, in a pre-determined manner were successful in front-running the impending orders of Tata Absolute Return Fund, a scheme of Tata AIF (Big Client). Tata AIF is a Sebi-registered alternative investment fund. Pursuant to the nexus, they have front-run the orders of the Big Client on multiple occasions during the investigation period and have made considerable wrongful
Staffing firm FirstMeridian Business Services Ltd has refiled preliminary papers with capital markets regulator Sebi and reduced its Initial Public Offering (IPO) size to Rs 740 crore from Rs 800 crore planned earlier. The initial share-sale comprises fresh issuance of equity shares worth Rs 500 crore and an Offer For Sale (OFS) of Rs 690 crore, according to the Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) filed with Sebi on Friday. As a part of the OFS, promoter Manpower Solutions Limited will sell shares worth Rs 615 crore while existing shareholders New Lane Trading LLP and Seedthree Trading LLP would sell shares worth Rs 42.5 crore and Rs 32.5 crore, respectively. The company, which counts Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone, Dell International Services India, PhonePe, Usha International, Exide Industries and Eureka Forbes as some of its key clients, has proposed to utilise the net proceeds from the fresh issue towards the payment of debt and general corporate purposes. JM Financial,