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Sun Pharma: Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd on Wednesday said that the company won an approval from the U.S. drug regulator for its specialty drug ILUMYA for plaque psoriasis.

Shares of Sun Pharma rose as much as 3.45% intraday high to Rs 521.9 in the morning hours, but post lunch hours of deal, the stock was trading 0.61% at Rs. 507.80

Zensar Technologies: Zensar Technologies Limited acquires U.S based insurance-technology company Cynosure for USD 33 million, to increase its foothold in the fast-growing property & casualty insurance space.

Shares of Zensar Technologies rose as much were trading 1.86% to Rs 927 at this point.

ITI Limited: The Cabinet approved a Deptt of Telecom proposal to allow its public sector unit ITI Limited to offer 18 crore fresh equity shares to public through a further public offer in the domestic market.

Shares of ITI Ltd were trading 2.66% at Rs. 119.80 in the afternoon hours.  In the morning hours, the stocks traded intraday higher upto 6.8%.

Dish TV: Dish TV India Limited said that the merger of Videocon D2H Limited into the company has been completed with effect from 22 March 2018. Shares of Dish TV India were trading up 1.74% to Rs. 67.10 at this point.

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Stock Tips: Nifty trend remain positive; RCom rises

NSE Nifty was trading up post lunch hours of trade amid profit booking visible in the banking and certain pharma stocks. At 2:05 PM, the Nifty 50 was at 10,172.15 points, up 47.80.05 points while BSE-Sensex was at 33,194.65 points, up 197.89

Shares of V-Mart Retail Limited was trading up 2.89% at 1907.05 as the company stated promoter will re-align their shareholding in the company.

Shares of Ashok Leyland Limited gains 1.34% at Rs. 147.95 as the company has bagged a 2,100 bus order in Tamil Nadu.

Shares of RCom as trading up by 2.60% as the company said that its bondholders approved its asset selling plan.

Bharti Airtel (+3.91%), Bajaj Finance (+2.36%), NTPC (+2.31%), Cipla (+1.83%) and Ultratech Cement (+1.64%) were top gainers on Nifty50 at this point.
On the other hand, shares of Eicher Motors (-1.73%), Bosch Ltd (-1.66%), Tata Steel (-1.53%), Tata Motors (-1.33%) and Adani Ports (-1.32%) were the top losers during the time.

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BSE, NSE suspend trading in D S Kulkarni Developers

  

National Stock Exchange (NSE) will suspend trading in the shares of DS Kulkarni Developers Limited, effective from tomorrow, 20 March 2018, following a directive from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) in a case with regard to alleged diversion of funds.

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) has already suspended trading in the shares of DS Kulkarni Developers Limited. The BSE in its circular stated on Monday, 19 March 2017, that it was suspending trading in the shares of DS Kulkarni Developers Limited, with immediate effect, for the same reason.

The National Company Law Tribunal, in an order dated March 13, had stated that by having cursory look into balance sheet & profit and loss account of the Company, the figures are shown soaring from year to year, but at the same time those figures are not in support with ground realities.

In a circular today, National Stock Exchange said it would suspend trading in the company's shares from March 21 pursuant to the National Company Law Tribunal order.

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IOC, BPCL look 26 pc stake each in GAIL; Shares fall

Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) may buy 26 percent stake each in gas utility GAIL (India) Limited, paying the govt over Rs.20,000 crore each to become integrated energy companies, as per a report by the PTI.

Reacting to the news, shares of IOC, BPCL and Gail (India) were witnessing considerable fall in the Exchange. As per the report, the IOC and BPCL may split the govt’s 54.89 percent stake in GAIL India, equally among themselves, making it their subsidiary.

Subsequent on FM Arun Jaitley’s February 2017 Budget announcement of creating integrated oil companies, IOC and BPCL had submitted separate proposals to buy the govt’s 54.89% stake in India’s biggest gas marketing and transportation firm, GAIL India.

At 1.00 pm, shares of Indian Oil Corp were trading lower by 3.65% at Rs 178.00, whereas BPCL was down 3.60% at Rs 431.45. At the same time, shares of GAIL (India) Limited were trading 0.11% lower at Rs 440.50 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).

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HDFC: HDFC Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of HDFC has filed the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the SEBI.  

Yes Bank, Fortis Healthcare; Yes Bank has sold 1.12 crore equity shares of Rs 10 each, constituting 2.17% of the paid up share capital of Fortis Healthcare, resulting into changes in holding of the bank by more than 2 percent of the total shareholding of Fortis Healthcare, from the last disclosure made by the bank on 13 March 2018.

Wipro: Wipro limited has announced that the company invested USD 2.02 million to acquire 20% stake in Avamo Inc., on a fully diluted basis.

Bharat Financial Inclusion: The non-banking finance company, Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited, completed its third securitization transaction in FY 2018 of Rs 450.82 crore. By this,   the company has completed securitization transactions worth Rs 1114.49 crore in FY 2018.

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ICICI Securities IPO OF Rs. 4000 Cr, opens on March 22

ICICI Bank announced that it will sell up to 77,249,508 equity shares of its subsidiary, ICICI Securities, via an IPO (initial public offer). The public offer of ICICI Securities will open for subscription on 22 March 2018 and will close on 26 March 2018. The anchor investor offer period will be open for subscription on March 21, the company said.

At the upper end of the price band, the offer could fetch over Rs 4000 crore. The price band for the offer has been fixed at Rs 519-520 per share. The face value will be Rs. 5 each and the minimum bid lot is fixed at 28 equity shares.

The filing further said that the offer includes a reservation of up to 38.62 lakh equity shares of ICICI Securities for purchase by ICICI Bank Shareholders, that is, the HUFs and individuals who are the public equity shareholders of ICICI Bank.

The objectives of the Initial Public Offering are to accomplish the benefit of listing the equity shares on the stock exchanges and for the sale of equity shares by ICICI Bank. The company looks forward to enhanced visibility and brand image through the IPO.

ICICI Securities registered total revenue of Rs. 14,042.3 million in the financial year 2017 and a total revenue of Rs. 8,527.7 million for the six months ended September 30, 2017.

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Market may be ranged, Asia mixed as Clinton and Trump debate

In view of  corporate earnings, Indian market may be range-bound that may be triggered off this week. Over the last week, the Sensex has risen 195.18 points, i.e. 0.70% and Nifty at 86.45 points or 1%. The market may also act in response to second debate of the US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton & Donald Trump.


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