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State-owned telecom firms BSNL and MTNL have earned a total of Rs 12,984.86 crore from monetisation of land, buildings, tower and fibre since 2019, Parliament was informed on Wednesday. According to data shared by Minister of State for Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar in Lok Sabha, BSNL has earned Rs 2,387.82 crore and MTNL Rs 2,134.61 crore up to January 2025 from monetisation of lands and buildings. "BSNL and MTNL are monetising only those land and building assets which are not required for their own use in the foreseeable future and for which it has the rights to transfer the ownership," Sekhar said in a written reply. BSNL has earned Rs 8,204.18 crore and MTNL Rs 258.25 crore from monetisation of close assets comprising tower and fibre up to January 2025, as per the reply. "Monetisation of assets are being done as per approved policy of the Government and its impact on the PSUs are being monitored closely," Sekhar said.
The United States announced Friday that it would be returning USD 52.88 million in seized assets to Nigeria as part of a yearslong corruption probe against former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke and associates, according to a joint statement by Nigeria's minister of justice and the United States government. It marks the first repatriation of assets linked to Alison-Madueke, who served as Nigeria's oil minister from 2010 to 2015. She rose to prominence as a powerful figure under former President Goodluck Jonathan, and became the first female president of the oil alliance OPEC. The seized assets, including a superyacht and prime real estate in New York and California, were confiscated in 2023 by US authorities during Alison-Madueke's trial. Of the repatriated funds, USD 50 million will be allocated to rural electrification programmes in Nigeria, while the remaining USD 2.88 million will be disbursed as a grant by the African country to the International Institute for Justice to ..
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has mandated the exclusive use of the eBKray auction platform to sell assets under the liquidation process from April 1. The eBKray (now known as Bank Asset Auction Network) is a property listing and e-auction platform designed for banks and lending institutions, addressing recovery of non-performing asset (NPA) loans through efficient property auctions. "The IPs were directed that they shall exclusively list the details of all the unsold assets in respect of the ongoing liquidation processes on the eBKray platform and that they may utilise the eBKray auction platform for the sale of assets in respect of ongoing cases for auctions," the regulator said in a circular on Friday. IBBI directed the IPs (insolvency professionals) to list unsold assets from ongoing liquidation cases for auction on the eBKray platform by March 31. Further, the board emphasised that all auctions for such assets would be conducted exclusively through the ..
Honasa Consumer Ltd, which owns Mamaearth, brand, on Saturday said there will be no attachment of its assets in the UAE as it has no assets there, although a court in Dubai has ordered such an action in its ongoing litigation with RSM General Trading LLC over termination of distributorship. The company, which also owns The Derma Co and Aqualogica brands, had on Friday said a court in Dubai has ordered attachment of its assets in the UAE but refused to cancel the trading licence of Honasa Consumer General Trading LLC. In a filing on Saturday, the company said,"... there shall be no attachment of the company assets, as the company has no assets located in the UAE." Honasa Consumer General Trading LLC, a subsidiary of Honasa Consumer Ltd has been exempted from this order, it added. RSM General Trading LLC (RSM) and Honasa Consumer Ltd (Honasa) had filed grievance statements against the precautionary attachment order passed by Court of Merits at Dubai, the UAE on June 6, 2024. The Dub
Land assets worth more than Rs 678 crore of the Avantha Group have been attached under the anti-money laundering law as part of an alleged bank loan fraud linked probe, the Enforcement Directorate said Thursday. A provisional order under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) has been issued to attach the properties located in Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand. The assets belong to various group companies of Avantha Group, "owned and controlled" by businessman Gautam Thapar. "On 19.08.2019, CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd had made disclosure under Regulation 30 of the SEBI (listing obligations and disclosure requirements) Regulations, 2015 to Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange regarding findings which had potential implications on the financial position of the company. "The disclosure made by CG Power and Industrial Solutions Ltd. revealed that assets and liabilities of the company have been understated considerably," the ED said in a statement. It w
The government monetised assets worth Rs 1.56 lakh crore under the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) in 2023-24, lower than the target of Rs 1.8 lakh crore, an official statement said on Wednesday. Under the NMP, the aggregate monetisation potential of the central government's brownfield infrastructure assets has been estimated at Rs 6 lakh crore over a four-year period, from FY22 to FY25. According to the statement, the total target for the first two years -- 2021-22 and 2022-23 -- under NMP was around Rs 2.5 lakh crore, against which around Rs 2.30 lakh crore was achieved. "During the financial year 2023-24, against the target of Rs 1.8 lakh crore, which is the highest among all the four years, the achievement has been around Rs 1.56 lakh crore," it said. Further, this achievement in 2023-24 is around 159 per cent of 2021-22, the statement added. The ministries of road transport and highways monetised assets worth Rs 40,314 crore in FY24, while the amounts for coal ministry w