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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicLife Insurance Corp

Topic: Life Insurance Corp

Pushing to have LIC IPO done by March 2022, FM Sitharaman says

Sitharaman said any delay won't be due to a lack of political will. The 65-year old insurer's internal valuation hasn't been done & the process will take time, she added.

‘Selling national asset willfully disruptive’: LIC trade union argues against Modi govt IPO plan

All India LIC Employees’ Federation, which represents about 4,000 of LIC’s roughly 114,000 employees, warns of jobs losses & says company may focus on profit-maximising after IPO.

LIC dismisses rumors of financial trouble, assures policyholders’ money is secure

The insurer issued a clarification in response to reports alleging the company was suffering heavy financial losses.

India is considering the outright sale of IL&FS

Other options include splitting businesses according to verticals and disposing them off to several buyers or injecting  liquidity at group level

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.