Dish TV vs Yes Bank: A fight of principles
Dish TV India, a company set up by Essel Group, and its largest shareholder, Yes Bank, are
set for a face-off in the shareholders’ meeting to be held next week. Yes Bank has already made it clear that it wants to remove all the directors of the company and appoint its own nominees to the board.
Omicron puts spanner in back-to-office work
The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has made Indian
companies persist with their policy of banning overseas trips and allowing only essential travel within India. The IT services firms, which had planned to ask their employees to return to the workplace, are watching the Covid-19 situation.
FMCG not safe-haven bets for investors
The NSE FMCG (fast moving consumer goods) index
has declined 9 per cent since the end of September against a 4 per cent fall in the benchmark Nifty50. On Monday, too, the FMCG index marginally underperformed, declining 1.8 per cent against 1.65 per cent in the Nifty50.
NHRC notice on Nagaland killings
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday
issued notices to the central and Nagaland governments, seeking a detailed report in the killings of civilians in an army operation, within six weeks.
Biden, Putin to hold talks today
Russia's military buildup on the border with Ukraine will be the
top focus of talks between President Joe Biden and Russia's Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, but there are plenty of other thorny issues on the table as well, including cyberattacks, human rights, and US-Russian relations that a Kremlin spokesman says are overall in a rather dire state.
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