Go Airlines India Ltd.’s plans to raise 36 billion rupees ($485 million) via an initial public offering have been put on hold by India’s market regulator, dealing another blow to the debt-laden carrier whose business has been decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg News reported. Go Airlines’ share sale documents will be “kept in abeyance,” the Securities and Exchange Board of India said in a filing late Monday, without specifying the reason why.
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The Mumbai chapter of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) ordered the liquidation of Nakshatra World, a subsidiary of Gitanjali Gems, one of the group companies promoted by fugitive businessman Mehul Choksi, the Economic Times of India reported. The ruling came on an insolvency petition ICICI Bank filed around two years ago against the company, which was also allegedly involved in a money laundering case reported at the Punjab National Bank. The court appointed Santanu Ray, a partner from Delhi-based AAA Insolvency Professionals LLP as the liquidator.
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A bad bank in India that’s expected to launch this month may help reduce one of the world’s worst bad-loan piles but market participants say it’s a long path ahead, Bloomberg News reported. The new institution, which is set to start operations by the end of June, is likely to handle stressed debt worth 2 trillion rupees ($27 billion) over time, according to a BloombergQuint report. That would be about a quarter of the nation’s non-performing debt load.

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Almost four years after Jaypee Infratech was referred for insolvency resolution, Mumbai-based Suraksha group on Wednesday emerged as the preferred bidder in the fourth attempt, beating state-run NBCC by the narrowest of margins, the Times of India reported. Sudhir Valia-controlled Suraksha polled 98.66% of the votes, while NBCC received 98.54%. Valia is a relative of Sun Pharma promoter and managing director Dilip Sanghvi and is also on the board of the country’s largest drug company.
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An Indian bankruptcy court ruled Jet Airways India Ltd. can resume operations under a new owner more than two years after it collapsed, according to Ashish Chhawchharia, the court-appointed professional running the carrier’s insolvency, Bloomberg News reported. Jet Airways, once India’s biggest private carrier, fell into bankruptcy in 2019 under mounting debts. Dubai-based businessman Murari Lal Jalan and Kalrock Capital Management Ltd.
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Around 200 applications for resolution of stressed assets have been filed under the insolvency law since the suspension of fresh proceedings ended on March 24, according to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI), the Economic Times of India reported. Amid the coronavirus pandemic that had significantly impacted economic activities, certain provisions under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) were suspended with effect from March 25, 2020. The suspension was in place for one year till March 24, 2021.
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The plastic raw material traders and product manufacturers of the city are passing through the worst phase of their lives with about 70% of them close to shutting shops and factories and facing bankruptcy, the Times of India reported. Huge rise in the rates of raw materials during the past one year and a fall in demand are to be blamed for the situation. This was revealed by the Plastic Manufacturers’ and Traders’ Association (PMTA), which claimed that rates of raw materials have gone up by four times in some cases and sales reduced to 25%.
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India’s bankruptcy court has allowed billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Twin Star Technologies to takeover Videocon Industries Ltd., Bloomberg News reported. Videocon’s shares will be delisted as part of the plan submitted in December, the company told the stock exchange late Tuesday. Twin Star, a part of Agarwal’s Vedanta Group, will pay about 30 billion rupees ($410 million) to Videocon’s lenders, people familiar with the matter had said earlier. The company will put up 5 billion rupees within 90 days and the rest as non-convertible debentures over a period of time.
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India’s bankruptcy court has allowed billionaire Anil Agarwal’s Twin Star Technologies to takeover Videocon Industries Ltd., Bloomberg News reported. Twin Star, a part of Agarwal’s Vedanta Group, will pay about 30 billion rupees ($410 million) to Videocon’s lenders. The company will put up 5 billion rupees within 90 days and the rest as non-convertible debentures over a period of time. Lenders had sought the bankruptcy court’s approval in December for the resolution plan submitted by Twin Star. The court approved the plan in a verdict on Tuesday.
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