AHMEDABAD: Gujarat High Court has directed Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to pay dues worth Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 6,000 crore to the state government towards differences in royalty of crude the PSU has extracted since 2008. A division bench headed by Chief Justice Bhaskar Bhattacharya and Justice JB Pardiwala yesterday directed ONGC to pay differences in royalty of crude within two months and also pay royalty, henceforth, to state government at market rate .. Source: Economic Times
Cigarettes major ITC reported a better-than-expected 21 percent year-on-year rise in third quarter net profit at Rs 2,052 crore, helped by strong growth in FMCG and agri businesses.Its net sales growth of 23 percent at Rs 7,627 crore also topped street estimates.Analysts on average had expected ITC to report a net profit of Rs 2,007 crore on revenue of Rs 7,220 crore, according to a CNBC-TV18 poll. "Overall ITC's results were good...Excellent performance of the non-cigarette FMCG business, good growth in the agri-business is driving growth," said Kaustubh Pawaskar of brokerage Sharekhan. The company saw its cigarette revenue rise 13 percent to Rs 3,657 crore, helped by the price hikes that it took. The analyst expects ITCs cigarette volumes would have grown around 1 percent in the quarter. The 64 mm cigarette that the company is test marketing currently should start contributing to its volumes couple of years down the line, he feels. Its other FMCG sales, whic...

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