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Cash-rich companies may step up payouts to shareholders: Analysts

Bajaj Auto will distribute up to 90 per cent of its annual profit as dividend

Profit or loss, independent directors of companies must get paid: MCA

Till now, there was no provision in the Companies Act that allowed a remuneration for the non-executive director if the company was in loss or had inadequate profits

Sebi bars 3 companies, 10 individuals for illegal fund raising activities

Regulator Sebi on Friday barred three companies and ten individuals from the securities market for illegally raising money from investors in the name of investments for teak trees.

Why our brain resists diversity

Although the brain resists variation, in contrast, variation is at the core of evolution and life forms

Second wave of Covid? From Tanishq to Panasonic, India Inc says we're ready

Firms say lessons have been learnt, ops reconfigured and supply chains adapted

Stick to spirit of law instead of finding loopholes: Goyal to investors

Goyal said that some investors have been trying to circumvent and misuse the provisions of the law, which leads to the government trying to plug the loophole

Govt invites EoIs by April 30 to set up display fabrication units in India

According to experts, the technology is held by a select few companies in China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan

SC right to protect IBC

Back door for promoters to retain control closed

'Paper'ing over the cracks

Independent directors - cats on a hot tin roof

Workplace visits close to pre-pandemic levels; Uttar Pradesh leads the pack

Workplace visits are between 80% and 95% of pre-pandemic levels, shows an analysis of Google mobility data.

Rotation to hot-desking, India Inc taking no chances with employee safety

Encouraged by the arrival of vaccines, companies are taking a technology-backed calibrated approach to speed up employees' return to the workplace while maintaining social distancing

Icertis valuation trebles to $2.8 billion after a fundraise of $80-million

Icertis has now raised over $280 million, and the current financing nearly triples the valuation of its Series E round in July 2019

Godrej Properties shares trim early gains; close mixed on bourses

The stock of Godrej Properties trimmed most of its early gains and closed on a mixed note on Wednesday.

Special insolvency relief framework for Covid-hit MSMEs in the works

Such firms may be allowed to opt for pre-packaged deal

10,113 firms voluntarily shut operations during Apr 2020-Feb 2021: Govt

Over 10,000 companies shut down voluntarily from April 2020 till February this year, also a period when the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns had significantly disrupted economic activities

Fortifying independent directors: Sebi's proposal may fail in practice

Sebi has thrown open for public discussion proposals for fortifying the position of independent directors (IDs)

Domestic capital goods companies likely to report flat margins in Q4

Volumes expected to rise as demand picks up in select sectors, say experts

Big bets on PLI schemes to find pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

The govt is going all out to push its ambitious production-linked investment scheme to help Indian manufacturing scale up and make India an export hub

Share of women in boardrooms up for eighth year in a row, shows data

However, women still account for less than a fifth of directorships among Nifty500 companies

Haryana's myopic law

The impact of jobs for locals will not be limited to the state