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The Indian company was the only one to bid on chartering a production storage and offloading vessel, known as an FPSO, for Petrobras' Barracuda and Caratinga fields

Realty major DLF has acquired a nearly 50 per cent stake in its arm DLF Urban Private Limited for Rs 497 crore from Singapore's Reco Greens.
With this deal, DLF will have a 100 per cent stake in DLF Urban, which has developed a luxury housing project in the national capital.
Reco Greens is an affiliated company of Singapore's sovereign wealth firm GIC.
In a regulatory filing on Tuesday, DLF informed that its subsidiary DLF Home Developers had "acquired 49.997 per cent of the total paid-up equity share capital and compulsorily convertible debentures held by Reco Greens Pte Limited in DLF Urban Private Limited, a subsidiary of DHDL (DLF Home Developers)".
A securities purchase agreement was executed on March 25 among DLF Home Developers, Reco Greens and DLF Urban.
Post this acquisition, the holding of DLF Home Developers in share capital of DLF Urban has increased from 50.003 per cent to 100 per cent.
Consequently, DLF Urban has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of DLF Home Develope

With this deal, DLF will have a 100 per cent stake in DLF Urban, which has developed a luxury housing project in the national capital

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Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to file a detailed reply by March 28, asking it to explain the delay in the registration of an FIR in the army colonel assault case.
The high court asked the government to name the officer who was informed by the petitioner about the incident and the reasons for the officer's refusal to take action and register an FIR.
"An explanation for the delay in registering the FIR, despite the  availability of medico-legal reports on record, along with detailed statement of the petitioner dated March 14, 2025, as well as comprehensive text message to Nanak Singh, senior superintendent of police, Patiala...," a bench of Justice Sandeep Moudgil said and directed the Punjab government to file a detailed reply by Friday, the next date of hearing.
Colonel Bath, who has accused 12 Punjab Police personnel of assaulting him and his son over a parking dispute, on Monday filed a plea in the high court, seeking transfer of the probe

The high court asked the government to name the officer who was informed by the petitioner about the incident and the reasons for the officer's refusal to take action and register an FIR

Over 2.6 lakh construction workers in Bihar did not receive funds amounting to Rs 52.02 crore under the COVID Special Grant Scheme due to technical issues, a Comptroller and Auditor General of India report said.
The CAG's performance and compliance audit report of the Bihar government for the year that ended on March 31, 2022 was tabled in the state assembly on Tuesday.
It also stated that 3,02,476 construction workers were deprived of annual medical assistance amounting to Rs 90.75 crore, while budget provision of Rs 4,134.21 crore had not been utilised by the state universities, and that Bihar was deprived of World Bank assistance amounting to Rs 476.90 crore under the Neer Nirmal Pariyojna.
"The state government framed the Bihar Building and Other Construction Workers Rules (BBOCW Rules) after a delay of nine years. The Bihar Building and Other Construction Workers Welfare Board (BBOCWB) had been constituted after a delay of 28 months," it said.
Further, the Board and the State 

CAG's performance and compliance audit report of the Bihar government for the year that ended on March 31, 2022 was tabled in the state assembly on Tuesday

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday announced an allocation of more than Rs 900 crore for providing basic amenities in slum clusters as she accused the previous AAP government of building a "Sheesh Mahal" and neglecting the needs of slumdwellers.
She also took a jibe at the opposition AAP MLAs, saying in a lighter vein that the "Sheesh Mahal" would be included in Delhi's tourism circuit.
The BJP -- which returned to power in Delhi after more than 26 years -- built its poll campaign narrative around corruption to corner AAP and party supremo Arvind Kejriwal, dubbing the former chief minister's official residence a "Sheesh Mahal" for its "lavishness".
The BJP has already announced that its chief minister would not reside in the bungalow and that it would be put to some other public use.
Gupta, who also holds the finance portfolio, on Tuesday presented the city government's 2025-26 budget with an outlay of Rs 1 lakh crore, marking a 31.5 per cent increase from the previous ...

She also took a jibe at the opposition AAP MLAs, saying in a lighter vein that the "Sheesh Mahal" would be included in Delhi's tourism circuit

Gupta, who also holds the finance portfolio, highlighted that she has doubled capital expenditure to Rs 28,000 crore

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