According to bulk deal data available with the National Stock Exchange (NSE), Kayak Investments, an affiliate of private equity major KKR, offloaded 8.44 crore shares of Max Healthcare.

The company has declared an interim dividend of Rs 1,372.19 crore which works out to 31.07 per cent of profit after tax (PAT) for the financial year 2020-21.

There are many things which associates are looking for; career growth. Are they able to up skill themselves? Are they able to migrate between technology or functional areas? Are they able to get deeper expertise or not?​

Standard Life, which held a 21.23 per cent stake in HDFC AMC, sold 5 per cent of total equity at Rs 2873.79 per share on BSE to raise Rs 3,061 crore.

It will act as a signatory to PRI’s “ESG in Credit Risk and Ratings Statement”. Fitch, Moody’s, S&P Global, Kroll Bond are among others, which are existing signatories in the gauge.

NTPC had proposed to raise up to Rs 18,000 crore through the issue of bonds/debentures on a private placement basis.

We head not only into weekly options expiry, but also monthly derivative expiry on Thursday. Given the current technical setup and looking at the options data for September expiry, it is unlikely that Nifty may see any serious drawdown.

In another transaction, T Rowe Price Emerging Markets Stock Fund bought 1.5 million shares of the asset management company at Rs. 2,871 per share through a bulk deal on the BSE.

There are about 1,552 such funds - known as exempted provident funds - with an estimated Rs7-8 lakh crore corpus which can invest as much as 15 percent of corpus in equities. Many funds nearly exhausted the limits through the bull run.

The Unit Approval Committee of GIFT SEZ Wednesday met to consider those proposals as the special economic zone is set to launch a bullion exchange in the next few weeks amid growing investor interest.