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| Renault hopes its new model will push up its laggardly India sales Posted: 26 Sep 2017 01:19 AM PDT MUMBAI: Renault has lined up its premium SUV Captur for launch this festival season, hoping to push up the French automaker's India sales that have faltered this year with falling volume of the Kwid compact crossover. Renault, which developed strong SUV credentials in India with the Duster, is expecting the Captur to bring in incremental volume of 20,000-25,000 units in 2018, people with knowledge of the company's plans said. Renault India managing director Sumit Sawhney declined to forecast any numbers for the Captur, but said the company would likely match last year's sales of a little over 1 lakh units this year, and post strong doubledigit growth in 2018. "We are a young company in the midst of product portfolio development. We are in the process of setting up a runway for faster growth in the future. With a three-car portfolio (excluding the Captur) and the volumes we do with our network, it is a good showing," he said. Built on the Duster platform, the Captur is engineered significantly at the company's R&D centre in Chennai. The model is likely to be priced between Rs 11lakh and Rs 15 lakh and will be positioned a little above the Duster, putting it in direct competition with the Hyundai Creta, Tata Hexa and Mahindra XUV 500. On Monday, the company started taking bookings. Renault India is likely to bring in one new model every year from now on its common module family platform. The next in line is the RBC — a compact seven seater cross over planned for 2018 — followed by an SUV in the following year-.Sawhney said the future portfolio would target Renault owners to upgrade to the next level of vehicles. |
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| NHRC issues notice to TN govt; piercing cheeks of children for recovery of Jaya Posted: 26 Sep 2017 01:09 AM PDT The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday issued a notice to Tamil Nadu government to file a case against those who forced about 20 children to pierce their cheeks with two-meter steel rods as part of a ritual for the speedy recovery of the then ailing chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The Commission also asked north Chennai additional commissioner of police, Law and Order to register a case under sections 326/341/34/120B IPC and 23 of Juvenile Justice Act against the people involved in piercing childrens cheeks using steel rods. The officer has also been asked to inform within four weeks about the disciplinary action taken against the erring police officials, who were, admittedly, present at the site and did nothing to stop the criminal act. Further, the Commission asked the Home Secretary of Tamil Nadu government to submit a report, within four weeks, on the steps taken to stop such rituals. The Commissions directions have come after the Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai, confirmed that such an incident had happened on the 3rd October 2016. As part of a ceremony, the children were made to walk from Murgan Temple, R.K. Nagar, to Seniamman Temple, Manikondu, Tondiarpet by the supporters of AIADMK. The Commission, acting on a complaint into the allegations, had called for a report from the concerned authorities on the 7th November 2016. The Commission has observed that from the material available on record, including the photographs, it is apparent that the children were very small and innocent and their cheeks were forcibly pierced. A photograph reveals that the children were made to wear a cap with a photograph of Jayalalithaa and with the slogan written on it – “long live Amma”. One girl is seen caught by some persons for the purpose of piercing her cheeks. The incident makes it a clear case of violation of human rights of children. The Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai, in his report, confirming the incident, had said that the children participated in the event with the approval of their parents and were not forced to do so. However, he had accepted that the incident was a gross violation of Child Rights and that the police personnel, who attended the security duty on the 3rd October 2016 in connection with the event, had been severely warned. He assured that if any such incident is reported in future, action will be taken under the relevant provisions of the law against the guilty. The Commission has observed that it fails to understand how the consent of the parents, or that of the children for the ritual, can justify the criminal act of piercing childrens cheeks with two-meter steel rods. Admittedly, the police officials, present at the site of the incident did nothing to stop it. Therefore, a simple warning to the erring police personnel is abysmal considering the gravity of the incident, the Commission said. Source: DH |
| ASCI rejects HUL’s objection to Emami fairness ad campaign Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:49 AM PDT KOLKATA: Advertisement Standards Council of India (ASCI), the apex body to regulate advertisements to promote fair competition, has rejected Hindustan Unilever’s (HUL) objection to the Emami campaign for its Fair & Handsome mens fairness brand variants. The complaints, filed by HUL against two fairness brand variants of Emami, had been rejected by the Independent Review Committee (IRC) of ASCI, an Emami spokesman told . Campaigns for the two fairness variants — Fair & Handsome Instant Fairness Facewash and Fair & Handsome 100 per cent Oil Clear Instant Fairness Facewash — were contested by HUL on grounds of use of language and misleading the consumer among others, the spokesman said. When contacted, an HUL spokesman said, “Regret. We have no comments to offer.” All aspects relating to the objections were personally reviewed by chairman of the IRC at a meeting attended by teams from Emami and HUL, the company said. Emami claimed that both the brand variants had been subjected to rigorous clinical studies to deliver the required results. The company said that according to A C Nielsen, the Fair & Handsome fairness brand had reached the number three spot among the cluttered men’s facewash market in a span of three years. |
| Whoa! This Nifty top of 10,180 was written way back in 2007 Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:49 AM PDT The benchmark Nifty50 has lost nearly 300 points in the market correction over the past two sessions. One was curious as to why the index failed to breach the previous high after it formed a fresh lifetime high of 10,178 on September 19. Of late, there have been many discussions about the Nifty quoting at all-time high PE multiples above the 10,000 mark, the not-so-good macro-economic factors and growth slowdown. However, there is a serious technical angle to it as well, and that gives a clear picture in a more quantitative way. From a technical angle, there is no disputing the fact that at the current PE multiple, if earnings do not improve a whole lot, we would be sitting on expensive valuations. Let us examine Nifty's long- term monthly chart for last 21 years, i.e. from 1997 to 2017. The market saw the beginning of a bullish formation, an Ascending Triangle, on the monthly chart at the beginning 2007. This formation took seven years to complete. In 2014, the Nifty50 achieved a positive breakout. This Ascending Triangle formation was between 3,818 on the lower side and 6,350 on the higher side. If we put the measuring implication to this formation, we should have forecast Nifty50 to test the 10k level. Because, the measuring implication of this formation is at 10,175. Currently, we have seen the market take a pause and encounter severe resistance twice in the 10,150-10,180 zone. The conclusion is that these are serious resistance levels derived from the monthly charts and Nifty is simply respected them. A correction was always imminent from these levels. But that correction can be of two types: either the market sees downright decline or in most likelihood, it will keep itself in a broad range, say 500-600 points, and oscillates in that range for a reasonably good time. We see more possibility for this. In a way, the 10,180 level can be taken as intermediate top. However, at present, there are no sign of a distinct reversal of the primary trend. All we can say is the primary trend is getting disrupted temporarily and we expect the market to remain more stock-specific with the 10,180 level acting as the intermediate top. (Milan Vaishnav, CMT, MSTA is Consultant Technical Analyst at Gemstone Equity Research & Advisory Services, Vadodara. He can be reached at milan.vaishnav@equityresearch.asia) |
| India’s Aadhaar rivals growth of Windows, Android, Facebook: Satya Nadella Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:49 AM PDT ORLANDO: India’s Aadhaar identity system rivals the growth of other platform innovations like Windows, Android or Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said. Nadella, in his book ‘Hit Refresh’, which was released during the ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference, has praised India’s leap forward in the digital and technological arena. “Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people, rivaling the growth of other platform innovations such as Windows, Android or Facebook,” the 50-year-old wrote in his book that hit the book stores today. He praised the creation of the new digital ecosystem IndiaStack. IndiaStack is a set of APIs (application programming interface) that allows governments, businesses, startups and developers to utilise an unique digital Infrastructure to solve India’s hard problems towards presence-less, paperless, and cashless service delivery. “China strategically used the global supply chain and their own domestic market to amplify their comparative advantage and bootstrap their economic growth,” the India-born CEO noted. “The combination of industrial policy, public sector investment, and entrepreneurial energy is what many other countries will also look to replicate from China’s success. I see the beginnings of this in India with the creation of the new digital ecosystem known as IndiaStack,” Nadella said. “India is leapfrogging from once being an infrastructure-poor country to now leading in digital technology. IndiaStack ushers in a presence-less, cashless, paperless economy for all its citizens,” said the Indian American CEO from Microsoft. In his book, Nadella wrote that on a trip to Bengaluru he engaged in a conversation with Nandan Nilekani about IndiaStack and its future road map. “Nandan is the legendary founder of Infosys, who went on to create a new startup working with the Indian Government- Aadhaar-the identity system that is at the center of IndiaStack,” he said. Nadella has also mentioned about Enlightiks, a startup that was acquired by Practo, a leading e-health company in India. “I met the founder of Enlightiks on the same trip to Bengaluru. They are using the latest cloud technology and AI from Microsoft to create a state-of-the-art health care diagnostics service that can, for example, detect an Atrial fibrillation event before it happens because of the rich data going from the personal device of the patient directly to the cloud,” he said. “In turn, this cloud service can be made available to hospitals in Smaller towns or rural areas in India. Enlightiks also has plans to take advantage of IndiaStack to authenticate the user, accept payment, create portal medical records, and much more. This Indian innovation is now looking to expand in the US, Africa and everywhere else,” he wrote. According to Nadella, this dynamic is not unique to China or India. “I saw this across Chile, Indonesia, and Poland, and also in France, Germany, and Japan. Reflecting on my earlier visit to Egypt, it’s clear they are investing in human capital,” he said. |
| Meet Paulomi Tripathi, the young diplomat who just sent Pakistan running for cover Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT After Pakistan described India as the “mother of terrorism in south Asia”, India came up with a stunning rebuttal on Monday, with a young Indian diplomat accusing Islamabad of using fakes to embellish its false narrative on Kashmir, and waving the photo of a slain Kashmiri Indian Army officer to drive home New Delhi’s point on cross-border terrorism perpetrated by Pakistan.Paulomi Tripathi, a first secretary with India’s permanent mission to the United Nations, held up two photographs together -one showing the Army officer, and the other of Pakistan’s permanent representative to the UN Maleeha Lodhi brandishing the picture of a Palestinian woman she described as a Kashmiri woman bearing pellet gun injuries -and declared, “The true face of Pakistan is not hidden from anyone.”The Army officer shown in the picture was Lieutenant Umar Faiyaz, who was abducted from a wedding and killed by terrorists in J&K’s Shopian this May .A 2007-batch Indian Foreign Service officer, Tripathi, who took on Pakistan’s most experienced diplomat at the UN, is the most junior diplomat at India’s permanent mission to the UN in New York, which is headed by Syed Akbaruddin. The geography graduate, who was pursuing a PhD at JNU, joined the mission two months ago. Her children and husband are still in Delhi.The choice of Tripathi was deliberate to show India as a storehouse of young talent, a point foreign minister Sushma Swaraj too had sought to make as she ripped Pakistan apart over crossborder terrorism in her UN General Assembly address.Tripathi handles human rights at the Indian permanent mission. In view of Lodhi’s cynical attempt to mislead the UN, a confident Tripathi said India had been constrained to show the assembly a photograph (of Faiyaz) that reflected the real picture of pain inflicted by the nefarious designs of Pakistan on India.”This is a real and not a fake picture of Lt Umar Faiyaz. A young officer from the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Umar Faiyaz was kidnapped at a wedding celebration. He was brutally tortured and killed by Pakistan-supported terrorists in May 2017,” said Tripathi.”This is a true picture. It portrays a harsh and tragic reality . A picture of terrorism emanating from across our borders that the people of India, especially in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, have to struggle with every day . This is the reality which the permanent representative of Pakistan sought to obfuscate,” she added.Tripathi accused Lodhi of yet again seeking to divert attention from Pakistan’s role as the hub of global terrorism. “She did so by callously holding up a picture of an injured girl,” said Tripathi.While exercising Pakistan’s right of reply , Lodhi had sought to counter Swaraj’s strong indictment of Pakistan’s conduct on terrorism by displaying a picture of a woman she thought was a Kashmiri pellet gun victim. As Tripathi said in her speech, it was actually a photograph of Rawya abu Jom’a of Palestine.The picture was taken on July 22, 2014, by American photographer Heidi Levine.This photograph was published by `New York Times’ on March 24, 2015, under the caption `Conflict, Courage and Healing in Gaza’.”The permanent representative of Pakistan misled this Assembly by displaying this picture to spread falsehoods about India,” said Tripathi. |
| HC seeks Vikram Bakshi’s reply on McDonald’s plea to enforce arbitral award Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court today sought response of Vikram Bakshi, estranged partner of McDonald India on the company’s plea seeking enforcement of an arbitral award to transfer shares in their joint venture to it. The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) in its September 12, 2017 order had directed Bakshi to sell his stake in the joint venture (JV), Connaught Plaza Restaurants Pvt Ltd (CPRL), to McDonald’s India Pvt Ltd (MIPL). By a 2-1 majority, the LCIA in its partial award had asked Bakshi to transfer his 1,45,600 shares in CPRL to McDonald’s at a fair valuation in accordance with their JV agreement. Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva issued notice to Bakshi and sought his response to the plea by December 7, the next date of hearing. MIPL, represented by senior advocate Rajiv Nagar, in its plea has apart from seeking enforcement of the award also asked for extension of an interim order passed by the high court in 2013 to maintain status quo regarding the shareholding in CPRL. The December 2, 2013 order of the high court had recorded a statement made on behalf of Bakshi that status quo will be maintained with regard to shareholding in CPRL till culmination of arbitral proceedings. Bakshi’s lawyers, including senior advocate N K Kaul, said there was no need to extend the 2013 order as it still continues to operate since the LCIA award was a partial one. In view of the submission by Bakshi’s lawyers, the court did not pass any interim orders. It, however, said that Bakshi, and his company Bakshi Holdings, would be bound by the statement. MIPL had approached the LCIA after Bakshi rejected its offer to buy out his stake in CPRL. He had reportedly rejected MIPL’s offer as he felt that its valuation of the shares was lower than what it actually was. |
| All bets off if Nifty slips below 9,000: Atul Suri, Marathon Trends Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT Talking to ET Now, Atul Suri, Marathon Trends PMS, says going ahead US is not going to be the single major driver of global markets. It is important for us to look and find out which is that space which is going to drive this whole thesis of global bull markets. Edited excerpts: What do we start with? Last few days have been a bit gloomy for the markets and people have been asking the question. There have been concerns over the falling index… 300 points and… Yes it is 3% to 4% and people are nervous. When we look at the 2003 to 2008 bull market, we say it was one big bull market but we forget there were three downside circuits and yet we call it one big bull market. It is important to keep your face towards the sun and look at markets beyond. We may correct further. Yes, we are in an intermediate correction. We are feeling it in our portfolios and stocks, but it is important to see what the bigger trend is, what a multi-year trend is If you look at markets, you will notice that we have been having a big, big global bull market. So what I am going to first show you is the FTSE All World Index. It is a very interesting. It is on the most broad-based indexes in the world. It has about 49 countries – developed, developing, emerging everything. India is a part of it, over 3000 stocks and after the 2008 top, this market corrected like all global markets have and it has just broken out into new highs. What you really have is a massive triangular consolidation pattern and the up move, the projection is about 40% from here in the next four years. So you are talking of a global equity bull market with 8% to 10% kind of compounding for the next four years. Also, this is very important because we are in a globalised environment. There are global flows and you really cannot forget that. So I do make case for being a part of a big, big global equity bull market and that is very visible. If you look at it, we had issues of Brexit. What happened? The market went higher. What happened after Trump? The US has had its beauty. We have had issues with Korea. Japan is up. US is up. Korea is up. Bull markets are built on walls of worries and that is one of the most heartening factors. So essentially in spite of bad news if the markets are going higher, it is telling you that things are positive. We are in a bull market. Before we look at your second graph which is the S&P 500 graph, the continuation of this famous line is that bull markets climb the wall of worry but they always come down on ray of hope. There is a lot of hope in this market, is not it? There is a lot of participation in this market. Maybe in the Indian context … we will get to that but I think in the whole global context, there is a lot of concern. People are so bothered about everything and anything but the price action beyond that is telling you something else. The market is telling you something, the screen is telling you something else and this is happening globally. Even if you look at emerging markets, remember we are part of a global equity bull market. So far it is essentially being driven by the US. If you look at the S&P 500 chart, you will find after the 2008 top, we kind of made a double bottom formation and we are at around 2500. The kind of move that we have had has been phenomenal. I was just going to come to that, the fact that in your all world index, S&P 500 has been the leader. India has done well but that is within the emerging market pack. What happens if we see India like days within the US markets which we have had a flavour of once you hear escalated tensions between North Korea and the Trump administration? Is there a chance that we will see those kind of dip downs and very sharp ones within the S&P 500 index as well because that is bound to have correlation to India as well? I think it has to happen. We are having a dream. We are having a slumber bull market. People are in a dream mode, sleep mode. It is great. It is great for everybody. But it cannot last for ever but even if there are corrections that do not mean that it is not a bull market. You will have 3%, 5% even have a 10% correction. If you look at the bigger picture and we have been very fortunate that we are in this slumber mode but volatility has to kick in. Winter is here, spring is not far behind and if spring is here, then winter is not far behind. I guess, we have to be prepared for it. My only thesis is that the US has been the major driver. It has 50% weightage in this FTSE world index but going ahead I feel that US has run and kind of met its targets. Generally when markets meet their targets, they tend to go into sideways… I do not think going ahead US is going to be the single major driver of global markets. It is important for us to look and find out which is that space which is going to drive this whole thesis of global bull markets and that is where the opportunity is for us as investors. This is my trickle down approach. |
| Prataap Snacks IPO subscribed over three times on Day 3 Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT The initial public offering (IPO) of Prataap Snacks got subscribed 3.03 times on the last day of bidding till 11.45 am (IST). The public offer received bids for 1,09,77,435 shares against 36,27,518 shares offered by the company. The company had already garnered a little over Rs 143 crore from anchor investors. The company’s Rs 482-crore issue size includes Rs 200 crore through fresh equity issue and the rest from sale of 30,05,770 shares. Prataap Snacks has fixed a price band of Rs 930-938 per share. The company, which makes products under the 'Yellow Diamond' brand, aims to use the proceeds to expand capacity, marketing and brand building activities and retire the debt on its books. Geojit Financial Services has given 'Subscribe' rating to the issue with long-term perspective. Being a pan-India player, Prataap Snacks saw phenomenal growth over the last few years with revenue CAGR of 27.34 per cent over FY13-17. During the same time, it successfully garnered market share from large players like PepsiCo and ITC. In the Rings segment (part of extruded snacks), Prataap is the market leader and its share in the overall organised snacks market has grown from 1 per cent to 4 per cent during 2010 to 2016. "With current utilisation rates, Prataap has the capability to grow organically. Current Indian organised snacks market is estimated at Rs 22,000 crore and is estimated to grow at around 14.6 per cent CAGR, over 2016-21E. Prataap’s story should be considered on its new product launch plans, strong, sustained revenue growth and strengthening market position in the last few years. The company intends to foray into relatively untapped high margin chocolate-based confectionary, the market for which is estimated to grow at 15-18 per cent annually over the next four to five years," Geojit Financial Services said. However, Angel Broking believes that at 202x of its FY17 earnings, the issue is richly valued at upper end of its price band of Rs 938. Ignoring its lower profitability in FY17 and valuaing the issue on FY16 EPS still yields a high P/E of 73.0x. FMCG companies commanding such high P/Es have a very strong profitability and returns profile such as Britannia (which is not an exact peer due to size and product portfolio). "Its peer in exactly same industry ie DFM Foods, also has good margins (10 per cent in FY17) and handsome return profile (around 20 per cent). For Prataap to justify this high valuation, remarkable improvement in profitability is required which may come at the cost of lower growth. Considering this, we rate Prataap Snacks as Neutral," Angel Broking said. |
| Faster Internet speed spurring OTT growth in India Posted: 26 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT HYDERABAD/NEW DELHI: The improvement in average Internet speed in India over the last few months is spurring growth in the Over-The-Top (OTT) sphere and may bring about a behavioural shift among Indian consumers, industry players have emphasised.OTT, or the delivery of video content via Internet, is looking up as Cloud delivery platform Akamai’s latest “State of the Internet Report” indicates that the average speed has dramatically improved in the last 18 months from a 3-odd Mbps to a 6.5 Mbps.”The massive upsurge in 4G connections across new telcos and incumbents has powered this surge, which is reflected in a massive 6X leap in data consumption at 1.3 billion GB per month,” Vamshi Reddy, CEO and founder, Apalya Technologies, a pioneer in mobile video solutions, told IANS.Though the Internet speed in India is still at just a third of the global average, Reddy feels the optimal data speed, coupled with friendlier data costs, will lead to higher OTT growth.According to Abhesh Verma, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of key OTT player nexGTV, a connection speed of more than 2 Mbps is well-suited to support online viewing and live-streaming.”However, instead of the bandwidth, it is important to have consistence in Internet coverage. Besides, with the advent of 4K video streaming services, it would be good to ensure that a user’s Wi-Fi supports 4K viewing,” Verma told IANS.The outlook for the Indian OTT video content industry looks extremely positive. According to a recent report from market research firm Media Partners Asia (MPA), the OTT market in the country is expected to cross 100 million unique monthly users by 2020.Verma has strong faith in the future of OTT technology in India. “The future belongs to tech-driven, digital products and the OTT concept fits perfectly into the futuristic vision of India,” he said.According to the experts, content creators now focusing on developing smartphone-enabled content will bring a behavioural shift in nearly half-a-billion data consumers in the country.From a base standpoint, India has already overtaken US estimates and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) suggest that the number of Internet users was 462 million in mid-2016. Of this, over 300 million access the Internet only through mobile devices. The US has 290 million internet users, but in a population of 323 million.”India today has transformed into a mobile-first economy; affordable smartphones and internet are making inroads into the very hinterlands of India and hence provide colossal opportunities for OTT players. Users of today demand content that is personalised and remotely accessible,” Verma told IANS.”We also believe that at the upper end, smart TVs will be adding to the changing consumption and behaviour patterns as they start replicating the more user-friendly mobile interfaces,” Reddy added.Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR) are seen as game changers in the OTT space. VR devices are catching up and can completely alter the viewing experience of the consumer.”Everybody is quite overwhelmed with so much content available online, but only five per cent of this is viewed. AI will help determine what content is selling, what is not, and invest in that kind of content,” Reddy said.For Verma, apart from AI and machine learning, broadcasters, media companies and service providers would adopt the all-IP workflows to introduce unprecedented functionalities and enhance opportunities for monetisation.”Technologies like HDR, UHD and VR will become an integral part of the OTT domain across the globe and in India,” Verma noted.Keeping the recent data breaches — especially involving the latest “Game of Thrones” (GoT) series — in mind, OTT players would definitely invest more in cybersecurity, chase off hackers and uphold the sanctity of data.On what chances do Indian OTT firms have when pitted against giants like Netflix and Amazon, Verma said he perceives the big OTT players as motivators.”Foreign giants like Netflix and Amazon are spread across continents and have an enviable collection of both content and subscribers. Indian users looking for high-quality entertainment content in English are going to turn to any of these players,” Verma said.”Indian players, on the other hand, have carved a niche for themselves and are banking heavily on their hold of regional content,” he added. |
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