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Kellton Tech zooms 16%, hits 52-week high on inking pack with LIC

The engagement will impact over 150,000 LIC employees, empowering them with advanced HR solutions

LIC to play key role in achieving 'Insurance For All by 2047': Chairman

In a bid to achieve 'Insurance For All by 2047', LIC will play a significant role and to meet that objective it is planning to launch a product especially designed for rural areas. "The focus would be how to cover maximum rural masses who actually need insurance. In coming days, rural share will also go up to our total business kitty," LIC Chairman Siddhartha Mohanty told PTI. He said to achieve the objective of 'Insurance For All by 2047', LIC will play a very significant role and in that direction the insurer has already started working. "I must thank the regulator. The regulator IRDAI has already proposed 'Bima Vistar', a composite product. The product will consist of life, health and property insurance," he said. To sell those products Bima Vahak would be engaged, he said, adding, it will be a women-centric distribution channel model. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a clarion call to make India a developed nation by 2047, when the country achieves 100 years of independe

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LIC extends rally, surges 23% in two weeks; hits highest level in CY 2023

The stock rallied 5% to Rs 750.55 on the BSE in the intraday trade, quoting close to its 52-week high level of Rs 754.40 touched on December 20, 2022

LIC fourth largest insurer in the world based on reserves: S&P Global study

The state-owned insurer is ranked after Allianz SE, China Life Insurance Company and Nippon Life Insurance Company

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LIC amends norms for inclusion of shareholders' directors on its board

State-owned insurer LIC on Saturday said it has amended a framework to allow the induction of shareholders' directors on its board. LIC was listed on bourses following the largest initial public offering in the Indian capital market last year. The government raised Rs 20,557 crore by diluting its 3.5 per cent stake in the insurer. Life Insurance Corporation of India (shareholders' director) Regulations, 2023, was notified in the Gazette of India on December 1, 2023, LIC said in a regulatory filing. The corporation would, upon notice of not less than one thousand shareholders or one-tenth of the total number of shareholders, whichever is lower, elect a shareholders' director through a general meeting of such shareholders, the regulation said. The person elected as a shareholders' director would be appointed by the board for a term of 4 years and eligible for re-election and re-appointment for another term of 4 years, it added. At present, LIC has five executive directors, including

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LIC keen to keep part of its stake in IDBI Bank for bancassurance gains

State-owned LIC, promoter of IDBI Bank, has said it plans to retain a part of its stake in the lender to harness the benefits of the bancassurance. Along with the government, Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) will also divest its stake in IDBI Bank but may not exit completely, LIC Chairman Siddhartha Mohanty told PTI in an interview. "We have made it clear that IDBI Bank is our number one partner in bancassurance. We will retain the some stake in IDBI Bank so that the bancassurance partnership continues," he said. The government, which owns over 45 per cent stake in IDBI Bank, and life insurance behemoth LIC, with a 49.24 per cent shareholding in the lender, have jointly decided to sell a 60.7 per cent stake. IDBI Bank became a subsidiary of LIC with effect from January 21, 2019, after the acquisition of an additional 82,75,90,885 equity shares. On December 19, 2020, IDBI Bank was reclassified as an associate company due to the reduction of LIC shareholding to 49.24 per cent, follo

PSU insurers' stocks surge on attractive valuation, RBI's risk weight norms

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Cheap valuation likely to lend support to LIC amid weak performance

Policies that provide policyholders a share of the insurance company's profits as an annual dividend payout are also called par or with-profit policies

LIC reports Q2 net profit at Rs 7,925 crore; net premium income down 18.7%

Insurer says numbers not comparable due to change in accounting norms

LIC Q2 results: Net profit falls 50% to Rs 7,925 crore on lower income

State-owned insurer LIC on Friday reported a 50 per cent fall in net profit at Rs 7,925 crore for the quarter ended September 30, on lower income. The country's biggest insurer had a net profit of Rs 15,952 crore in the year-ago period, LIC said in a regulatory filing. Its net premium income eased to Rs 1,07,397 crore in the second quarter of the current fiscal, from Rs 1,32,631.72 crore in the same period a year ago. LIC's total income declined to Rs 2,01,587 crore in the latest September quarter, compared to Rs 2,22,215 crore in the year-ago period, it said.

Centre may moderate FY25 disinvestment target amid limited asset sales

The FY24 Budget Estimate of Rs 51,000 cr expected to be halved

Higher free float to stoke passive flows in Zomato, DLF and Jio Financial

The move follows an increase in free float in these stocks due to selling by promoters and large institutions such as Life Insurance Corporation and Softbank Vision Fund

I-T moves HC against tribunal for favouring LIC in Rs 5K cr tax cases

The litigation has been filed by the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Mumbai, for two claims: Rs 1,838.87 crore and Rs 3,153.97 crore from AY 2014

LIC says it has got GST notice of Rs 37,000 for paying taxes at lower rate

State-owned firm says taxes officer's action will not affect its finances

LIC's sops for agents could price out smaller life insurance companies

The new benefits incentivise 1.35 million agents to continue with LIC, India's largest life insurer, but raise the heat on smaller firms in an expanding but difficult business

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LIC gets income tax penalty notice of Rs 84 cr; insurer to file appeal

Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) on Tuesday said that the Income Tax Department has demanded Rs 84 crore penalty pertaining to three assessment years and the Corporation has decided to file an appeal against the order. For assessment year 2012-13, the tax authority has imposed a penalty of Rs 12.61 crore, for 2018-19 Rs 33.82 crore, while Rs 37.58 crore for assessment year 2019-20, LIC said in a regulatory filing. Penalty has been imposed on state-owned insurer for violation of sections 271(1)(c) and 270A of the Income Tax Act, 1961, it said. The notice was issued by the Tax Department on September 29, 2023, it said. Incorporated in 1956 with an initial capital of Rs 5 crore, LIC has an asset base of Rs 45.50 lakh crore with a life fund of Rs 40.81 lakh crore as of March 31, 2023.