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3 in 4 brands cut marketing budgets post Covid in India: Report(12:22)
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Over three in four brand marketers (76 per cent) in India have reduced the marketing budgets post Covid-19, shifting advertising budgets towards social media (76 per cent) and paid search (64 per cent) in the post-pandemic environment, a new survey said on Tuesday.

Canara Bank wrote off Rs 47,310Cr in 8 years, but recovered just 19%(12:20)
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Canara Bank has written off bad loans worth thousands of crore of rupees and recovered paltry amounts from big defaulters.

L&T shares rise on hopes of contract for bullet train project(12:12)
Mumbai, Oct 20 (IANS) Shares of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) rose over three per cent on the hopes of bagging the contract for constructing the 237 km length of the bullet train project under the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor.

Railways approve JSPL produced rails for high-speed corridors(11:20)
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Indian Railways will get almost its entire requirement of speciality grade rails for the proposed high speed corridors from the domestic market.

SEBI forms panels to suggest policy for securities market data(19:46)
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has constituted a Standing Committee -- Market Data Advisory Committee (MDAC) -- to recommend appropriate policy for access to securities market data.

Every second farmer opposed to the 3 agri laws: Gaon Connection(13:32)
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Gaon Connections survey on 'The Indian Farmers Perception of the New Agri Laws found every second respondent farmer opposed to the three laws, while 35 per cent farmers supported these acts.

Sustainable mining of bauxite needed for India to be global aluminium hub (Ld)(13:22)
New Delhi, Oct 19 (IANS) Import of bauxite, one of Indias most abundant ores, has caused an estimated forex loss of over $400 million in the last 5 years alone and caused missed opportunities of generating mass scale employment.

Kapil Wadhawan offers family assets to repay DHFL lenders(12:36)
By Rituraj Baruah
Mumbai, Oct 19 (IANS) Kapil Wadhawan, promoter of the bankrupt Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL), has offered the monetisation of his family's properties which he says are worth around Rs 43,000 crore for repayment towards the lenders.

Markets to have wilder swings intra-day (Market Watch)(14:12)
By Arun Kejriwal
Markets gained on four of the five trading sessions, yet closed with losses in the week gone by. The BSESENSEX lost 526.51 points or 1.30 per cent to close at 39,982.98 points. NIFTY lost 151.75 points or 1.27 per cent to close at 11,762.45 points. The broader market saw BSE100, BSE200 and BSE500 lose 1.43 per cent, 1.37 per cent and 1.35 per cent, respectively. BSEMIDCAP was down 0.98 per cent while BSESMALLCAP lost 1.40 per cent.

RBI's loan recast framework to support Covid-hit realty projects(13:44)
New Delhi, Oct 18 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India's framework for loan recast or stress resolution for the Covid-19 related stress which allows banks to restructure loans of real estate companies at the project level comes as a major relief for developers who have been hit amid the pandemic and their specific projects have come to a halt due to liquidity crunch.

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VIP chief booked for violation of model code of conduct, Covid norms(01:38)
Patna, Oct 18 (IANS) VIP chief Mukesh Sahani has been booked under Disaster Management Act and for breaching Model Code of Conduct (MCC) in Saharsa's Simri Bakhtiyarpur town on Saturday.

TTD made no investments in govt securities, weighed options(00:58)
Tirupati, Oct 18 (IANS) The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) did not make investments in government securities but examined such an investment option amid the falling interest rates in the wake of Covid pandemic.