Daily News Roundup - Sep 6 2013

The Steel Authority of India (SAIL) has requested the Government to set up a dedicated institution to finance capacity expansion in the sector. (BL)

The embattled Financial Technologies Ltd, has sought shareholder approval to raise Rs10bn to fund its future growth opportunities. (BL)

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has returned the recommendations submitted by a high-level panel headed by Deepak Parekh that proposed increasing tariff for imported coal-based thermal stations of Tata Power and Adani Power. (BL)

Tata Consultancy Services has pipped Infosys and Wipro to bag a Rs1.93bn contract for setting up and managing a new software platform for the Income Tax Department, it is reliably learned. (BL)

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had decided earlier to raise the price of domestic gas but the row on the issue still looks far from settled. In what could prove a setback for Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), there is a proposal to deny it a higher price for gas produced from its D1 and D3 discoveries, if it is established the company artificially suppressed output in these fields. (BS)

Central Bank of India (CBOI) said it has raised interest rates on high value deposits by 50 basis points to 9.50 %. (ET)

Power Finance Corp has kick started the process of bidding two ultra mega Power projects by signing an agreement with states authorizing company to issue bid documents as approved by the government last week. (ET)

The consortium of Rashtriya Chemicals Fertilisers (RCF), GAIL, CIL and FCIL will invest Rs80bn for the revival of urea plant at Talcher in Orissa with production capacity of 1.2 mn tonnes per annum. (ET)

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) plans to increase its steel exports to around 25 % of overall sales in coming years and has already created a separate division to focus on the same. (ET)

Bharti group Chairman Sunil Mittal said he has no intention of buying back around 4 % stake that UK-based Vodafone, which also operates in India, holds in his Bharti Airtel. (ET)

Hatsun Agro Product Ltd, the Rs20bn private dairy company, will focus on Hatsun branded curd and Ibaco chain of exclusive ice-cream parlours during the current year. (BL)

Economy Snippets
The Government is considering measures to clamp down on imports of sub-standard automobile components, primarily from China. The move could bring some relief to the domestic industry, which is struggling to cope with competition from cheap imports. (BL)

In a bid to attract foreign investments, the banking regulator has allowed banks to stand guarantee on behalf of non-residents acquiring shares or convertible debentures of an Indian company through open offers/delisting/exit offers without its prior approval.(BL)

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) nations on agreed to set up a US$100-bn foreign currency reserve pool to counter the impact of a pull-out by foreign investors when the US Federal Reserve started tapering its quantitative easing programme.(BS)