Apollo Tyre to invest Rs. 1,800 cr for Greenfield plant in A.P

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Leading tyre manufacturer Apollo Tyres Limited announced that it plans to invest Rs. 1800 crore for setting up a Greenfield plant at Andhra Pradesh. The announcement was made during the foundation-stone-laying ceremony of Apollo Tyres’ global scale mfg facility on Tuesday, 9 January.

Apollo Tyres has bought 200 acres land from the Andhra Pradesh govt for this development. The construction will commence within the next 6 months, and the tyres are likely to start rolling out from this facility in the following 2 years.

Presently, Apollo Tyre has four production plants, of these two are in Kerala and one in Gujarat and another one in Tamil Nadu. This novel planned facility of Apollo Tyres Limited is located in Chinnapanduru village, Chittoor district, in Andhra Pradesh.

The stock of Apollo Tyre Limited open on Tuesday’s trade at Rs. 283 and touched day's high of Rs. 288.7, up 1.7% from the previous close of Rs. 283.80. The stock closed at Rs. 284.95, up by Rs. 1.25 or 0.44 per cent at NSE.

L&T commissions 360 MW Bheramara Cycle Power Plant in Bangladesh

Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) said that it has successfully commissioned and handed over the 360 MW state-of-the-art Bheramara Combined Cycle Power Plant Project to North West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL), the wholly  owned subsidiary of Bangladesh Power Development Board, on Jan 5, 2018.

Larsen & Toubro Limited is India's largest engineering & Construction Company generating 48 percent revenue from infrastructure in FY17.  The company generated 34 percent revenue from international markets in the fiscal 2017.  The company’s order book was Rs. 2.57 lakh crore as of the second quarter FY2018.

Shares of Larsen & Toubro Limited is currently trading at Rs. 1,332.40, down by Rs. 5.85 or 0.44% on the NSE, at 15:00 hours of trade.

RBI keeps key policy rate unchanged at 6%

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) monetary policy committee (MPC) on Wednesday kept the repo rate unchanged at its 5th bimonthly MPC meeting, given the warning over rising inflation.

The result was along the lines of the majority of market expectation, which anticipated the RBI to keep the key repo rate (the rate at which it infuses liquidity in the banking system) unchanged at 6 percent.

In the preceding meeting in October, the RBI had maintained status quo on rates. Since then, inflation based on the consumer price index (CPI) has grown to 3.58 percent, the fastest pace in 7 months, owing rising food and fuel prices.

Reliance Power Limited inks accord for USD1 billion power projects in Bangladesh

Reliance Power Limited, the part of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has announced that it has signed an agreement to execute first phase of a USD 1 billion power project, which consists of 750 MW combined cycle gas-based power plant, in Bangladesh.   The company also announced that the project entails an investment outlay of over USD 1 billion, which is also the largest foreign direct investment in Bangladesh. 

On Friday, shares of Reliance Power Ltd closed at Rs 37.45, down Rs 0.55, or 1.45% on the NSE. The scrip opened at Rs 38.80 and touched a high of Rs 38.80 and a low 37.30. The stock attracted a traded volume of 29,78,171 shares on National Stock Exchange.

Reliance Power Limited is India's leading private sector power generation and coal resources Company. The company has the biggest portfolio of power projects in the private sector, based on coal, gas, hydro & renewable energy, with an operating capacity of 5,945 megawatts.