Bajaj Finance Ltd climbed 7.2%, while Bajaj Finserv Ltd advanced 6.7%.
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"We're going through the pain, we'll see whether it takes one or three quarters," said Sanjiv Bajaj, managing director at Bajaj Finserv, which is a financial services firm part of the larger Bajaj conglomerate.
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Bajaj Finserv is the financial services arm of one of India's largest and oldest conglomerates, Bajaj Holdings and Investment.
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This issue was one of the reasons that Bajaj and Tananbaum were inspired to create Foresite Labs, Bajaj said.
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"There is no demand and no private investment," groused Rahul Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, a motorcycle-maker, at its annual meeting in late July.
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We have some frontline companies declaring numbers in the coming week, including HUL, Zee Entertainment, Ashok Leyland, Ultratech Cement, Bajaj Finance, Kotak Bank, Wipro, Bajaj Auto and HDFC Standard Life.
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That's partly because, for a country with a population of 1.3 billion people, India's credit card penetration rate is comparatively low, Sanjiv Bajaj, managing director of Bajaj Finserv, told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Bajaj Finserv is further broken down into different business segments, one of which is Bajaj Finance, a non-banking financial firm that lends to consumers, farmers, businesses and small- and medium-sized companies.
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Bajaj did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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OpinionNicholas Kristof OpinionRohini Pande and Charity Troyer Moore OpinionVikas Bajaj
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Bajaj and Och have joined Grail's scientific advisory board, Arnold said.
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But two-wheeler sales at Bajaj Auto and Hero MotoCorp declined.
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Bajaj Auto Ltd rose 2.8% after beating expectations for quarterly profit.
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Cofounding the initiative with Bajaj is Foresite Capital CEO Jim Tananbaum.
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Editorial Observer Mr. Bajaj is a member of the editorial board.
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MARK CASTELINO, NEWARK To the Editor: Vikas Bajaj raises important questions.
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SW Rasika's Ashok Bajaj refocuses the Penn Quarter restaurant on the Mediterranean.
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Maruti Suzuki rose 3.2 percent while Bajaj Auto ended 5.3 percent higher.
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Tata Steel and Bajaj Auto numbers were largely in line with expectations.
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Bajaj Finance Ltd declined 4.2%, while Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd dropped 3.7%.
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And that's where its partnership with Bajaj Auto would come in handy.
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The company also has an electric two-wheeler partnership with India's Bajaj .
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Tata Motors and Bajaj Auto were up 2.3 percent and 1.1 percent, respectively.
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The sugar mills include Balrampur Chini Mills, Bajaj Hindusthan, and Shree Renuka Sugars.
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Additional Reporting by Radhika Bajaj; Writing by Swati Bhat; Editing by Gareth Jones
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I am very sorry that Vikas Bajaj is offended by the character Apu.
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Investigators are examining evidence in the case, including the suspect's Bajaj Platina brand motorcycle.
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Bharti Infratel Ltd and Bajaj Auto Ltd surged 4 percent and 3.7 percent respectively.
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Bajaj Auto Ltd and Eicher Motors Ltd dropped 2 percent and 1 percent, respectively.
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First, Vikram Bajaj helped create Google's sprawling life science company, now known as Verily.
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There's another problem in healthcare that drove Bajaj to create Foresite Labs, he said.
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Yet the individuals in each industry continue to operate in siloed environments, Bajaj said.
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Erin spoke to Vik Bajaj, the man who helped create Google's life sciences venture.
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Shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance closed 4% lower, while Bajaj Finance ended down 4.8%.
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"And then everybody, all together, said, 'We will all have the same,'" Bajaj added.
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Bajaj said the company's efforts to diversify its liabilities helped it weather the liquidity crisis.
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Eicher Motors Ltd lost up to 1 percent and Bajaj Auto Ltd slipped 0.86 percent.
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So Bajaj and Tananbaum created a tool that lets entrepreneurs do just that, he added.
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"Our intention is to publish it and release it as open-source code," Bajaj said.
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They didn't carry mint chutney either, but Bajaj found the next best thing: mango chutney.
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Bajaj Finance ltd ended 1.9 percent lower, while Indusind Bank Ltd closed 1.6 percent weaker.
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Ajeet Bajaj is considered a pioneer of river rafting, kayaking and expedition skiing in India.
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Two-wheeler stocks were in focus after Bajaj Auto announced its quarterly results, which missed estimates.
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Bajaj said India's oil demand grew by an annual 10 percent in 2016 by 400,000 bpd.
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In The Times, Vikas Bajaj had a piece this weekend with some suggestions for saving lives.
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Nissan also said Arun Bajaj, who served as alliance human resources chief, will exit the company.
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"The urgency is to tell them this is a golden opportunity to meet," Mr. Bajaj said.
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"An entrepreneur joining the platform will find there's no need to reinvent the wheel," Bajaj said.
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Then Bajaj decided to check across the street at another of his restaurants: the Bombay Club.
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"Who's going to set the tone in the city is not President Trump," Mr. Bajaj said.
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Rahul Bajaj, an industrialist, has said that business people are afraid of criticising the government openly.
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Sahil (Raj Bajaj) is set on implementing his avant garde vision for the wedding with military precision.
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Vikas Bajaj, an editorial writer who covers business and economics, answers a selection of reader questions below.
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On the other hand, Maruti Suzuki, ICICI Bank, Hero Motocorp, Bajaj Auto, and Hindustan Zinc numbers missed estimates.
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Airbnb already has operations in India and last year it made Amanpreet Bajaj, who founded Flipkart-owned LetsBuy.
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Looking ahead: Bajaj will help identify companies that personalize medicine and treatment based on people's individual genetic code.
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All of them, Bajaj said, will be on-hand to provide guidance and mentorship to people who join.
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It aims to create laboratories that combine experts from both universes under one unique company culture, Bajaj said.
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While some companies are raising yields to attract buyers, others are selling shorter duration debt, according to Bajaj.
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Bajaj, Hero and Niti Aayog did not respond to a request for comment, while TVS declined to comment.
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"The order is most disappointing," said Shivendra Bajaj, executive director of the alliance for Agri Innovation, an advocacy group.
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Instead, Bajaj just started emailing people he thought might be interested in a course on landing a book deal.
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The MSCI Emerging Markets Index will add three stocks, LG Household and Healthcare-Preferred, Bajaj Finance, and Phosagro GDR.
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Jim Tananbaum, Foresite's CEO, told Axios that hiring Bajaj and others is about expanding the scope of investable companies.
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Bajaj Finance Ltd's stock was the top percentage gainer on the NSE index, up as much as 9.1 percent.
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The Mediterranean concept spot from chef Ashok Bajaj — where specialties include chickpea ravioli and octopus carpaccio — opened last month.
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Yes Bank led losses among the blue-chip stocks, falling 5.22%, while Bajaj Auto, the top gainer, rose 1.74%.
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"We get smart enough about a trend to find out who is smarter than us and pursue it," Bajaj explained.
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Volkswagen, Audi, Harley-Davidson, KKR and Bain Capital declined to comment while Bajaj, Investindustrial and Permira were not immediately available.
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Some NBFCs continued their downtrend, with Dewan Housing Finance down 2.4 percent but Bajaj Finance Ltd gained over two percent.
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Bajaj Finance has obtained international ratings of BBB− from S&P, which should help attract Japanese banks to its borrowing.
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Co-founder and managing director Avnish Bajaj previously ran eBay's business in India before starting Matrix's India fund in 2006.
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Yes Bank was the biggest loser among Nifty stocks, shedding 10.4%, while Bajaj Finance was the top gainer, advancing 1.26%.
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Bajaj Auto Ltd was down as much as 1.3 percent after reporting a 6.7 percent fall in total sales for July.
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But getting access to Foresite Labs' new data platform won't be its biggest draw for many entrepreneurs, Bajaj told Business Insider.
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Compared with last year, high yield issuers have been paying additional yields of up to 1 percent or more, Bajaj said.
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Bajaj Auto announced shortly after the announcement that it will expand its three-wheeler and quadricycle capacity to one million units.
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Two-wheeler makers Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Bajaj Auto Ltd, and TVS Motor Co Ltd rose between 1.70 percent and 2.50 percent.
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The drivers say apps have severely reduced their wages, and have been joined on strike by bus and bajaj motorbike drivers.
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No extensions are planned for round three, Avnish Bajaj — the firm's founder and managing director in India — told TechCrunch in an interview.
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Bajaj Auto fell 0.4 percent after the two-wheeler maker posted a 2 percent fall in its monthly auto sales for April.
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The passenger vehicle segment remained stable, with two-wheeler volume growth healthy, reflecting continuing rural strength and aggressive discounting by Bajaj Auto.
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"We believe that volumes are going to grow in this market from the commodities side," said Raoul Bajaj, Trafigura's Indian chief executive officer.
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Two-wheeler makers Bajaj Auto and Hero MotoCorp were the top losers on the NSE index by percentage, falling more than 2% each.
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Hero MotoCorp Ltd rose 2.20 percent, while Bajaj Auto Ltd and TVS Motor Co Ltd were up 1.74 percent and 3.05 percent, respectively.
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Cofounding the new venture is Jim Tananbaum, the CEO of Foresite Capital, the Silicon Valley venture firm where Bajaj serves as managing director.
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The team designed the platform to address one of healthcare's biggest problems, Bajaj said, which is that we lack high-quality, representative data.
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Bajaj Finance's loan pays top-level all-in pricing of 85.1bp for yen commitments based on a margin of 65bp over yen Libor.
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"Despite the spare record she has to work with, Lal paints richly detailed scenes from Nur's life," Vikas Bajaj writes in his review.
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"We package up and have built our technology infrastructure on top of AWS," said Girish Bajaj, VP of Software Engineering for Amazon Prime Video.
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"It's likely to be more of a public relations battle against Apple rather than a legal one," said Kunal Bajaj, a former TRAI consultant.
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Shares in energy and financial sectors also advanced, with Reliance Industries Ltd ending up 2.2 percent, while Bajaj Finance Ltd finished 8 percent higher.
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Titan, Bajaj Finserve, Grasim Industries will be included in the benchmark Nifty 50 index at the expense of Aurobindo Pharma, Bosch, and Ambuja Cement.
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An adventurer and mountaineer from a young age, Bajaj founded Snow Leopard Adventures in 1990 to offer trekking and rafting trips in the Himalayas.
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Automobile companies Bajaj Auto Ltd, Hero MotoCorp Ltd, TVS Motor Co Ltd and Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd rose as much as 0.93 percent to 1.54 percent.
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"How significant the unravelling of the sanctions are [in Sudan] we will look at," Bajaj, Standard Chartered's global head of banks, transaction banking, told Reuters.
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"The lab of the future will be one where scientists are as much behind a computer screen as a lab bench," Bajaj told Business Insider.
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But Bajaj Auto, which has decades of experience building two-wheelers in the nation, will be taking care of the manufacturing from here, he said.
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Bajaj Auto announced last month that it was reviving a decades old, sleeper hit scooter model Chetak, only this time it would run on electric.
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Indian motorcycle maker Bajaj Auto and several buyout funds are also preparing bids for Ducati, which is being put up for sale by German carmaker Volkswagen.
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The country's distributor of tuk-tuks and motorbikes made by India's Bajaj Auto has been affected by a currency crisis that has made importing more difficult.
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Bajaj Finance, which is targeting US$200m-equivalent as part of a US$575m three-year financing, could provide another test of appetite among Japanese banks.
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Major corporates expected to declare their results next week include Colgate, Bata, Tata Steel, PNB, HUL, JSW Steel, Bajaj Auto, BoB, Grasim, SBI and Tata Power.
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The result season has picked up steam and the frontline companies set to announce their numbers this week include ACC, Axis Bank, Bajaj Auto, Wipro and UltraTech.
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" Bajaj adds that the company is trying to create micro-entrepreneurs in India, "everyday people, mums and dads, who are using their homes to support their families.
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Vikram Bajaj, a VC and the cofounder of Google Life Sciences, now called Verily, is launching an incubator for healthcare and life science startups called Foresite Labs.
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"If you look at each of these strategies, at the core of it, it's no different from what others have done," said Kunal Bajaj, a telecoms consultant.
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Automaker Bajaj Auto Ltd was among the two losers on the blue-chip Nifty index, falling as much as 3.7% in its eighth straight session of declines.
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The two-year-old startup said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Bajaj Auto, which has also funded Yulu's $2450 million Series A financing round.
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Shares of Bajaj Finance rose 4.9% and clocked their best session in four months after the non-bank lender reported a higher quarterly profit and interest income.
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"These borrowers will be able to access liquidity beyond the dollar market," said a Singapore-based loans banker referring to Bajaj Finance and Tata Capital Financial Services.
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This week, at the Matrix Partner office in a tree-lined Bangalore street, managing director Avnish Bajaj and Practo founder Shashank ND chatted about startup challenges and hiring.
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And as Axios reported Monday, Vikram Bajaj, Grail's head of precision medicine and translational science — and the former cofounder of Verily — recently left for a private equity firm.
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Initial indications suggest Bajaj Finance could mirror the result of Fullerton India Credit, another Indian NBFC that closed a US$250m-equivalent three-year term loan in October.
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The drivers, who are part of the Land Transportation Drivers Association (PPAD), include drivers of three-wheeled Bajaj vehicles, motorcycle-taxis called ojek, and small private buses and taxis.
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The selloff was widespread with 46 of the 13 stocks in the Nifty 50 index in the red, with Eicher Motors Ltd and Bajaj Finserv Ltd dropping the most.
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Vikram Bajaj, the former co-founder of Google life sciences startup Verily and chief scientific officer of cancer biotech company Grail, has joined Foresite Capital as a managing director.
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Until the final seats sharing agreements and candidate lists are announced – which may not be until April – current polls are little more than guesswork, said Today's Chanakya chief Bajaj.
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"With more than 73% of the Himalayas in India, a coastline of over 7,500 kilometers and innumerable rivers, there is an immense amount of wilderness in India," said Bajaj.
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Matrix Partners India managing directors [left to right] Vikram Vaidyanathan, Avnish Bajaj (also founder) and Tarun Davda Matrix Partners India managing directors [left to right] Vikram Vaidyanathan, Avnish Bajaj (also founder) and Tarun Davda Looking at the market now, the firm's three managing partners see cause for optimism following 2018, a year in which Indian startup founding rebounded and the country saw a range of exits, chiefly Walmart's massive takeover of Flipkart.
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Japan's Suzuki Motor is working on plans to launch an electric scooter in India by 2020, while Indian motorcycle makers Bajaj Motor and TVS Motor are also eyeing electric models.
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Those moves could place a further strain on liquidity, making these ETFs more difficult to trade, said Mohit Bajaj, director of ETF trading solutions at WallachBeth Capital, in emailed comments.
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As part of the partnership, Bajaj will co-design and manufacture future generation of Yulu two-wheelers, Amit Gupta, cofounder and chief executive of Yulu, told TechCrunch in an interview.
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Two-wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Auto Ltd's stock fell as much as 2 percent to become the top loser in the NSE's Auto index after the company reported weak May sales.
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The week will also see prominent companies like L&T, ICICI Bank, HDFC, Dabur, Tech Mahindra, Bajaj Auto, Hindalco, NTPC, IOC, JSW Steel, Ashok Leyland and Vedanta release their quarterly earnings.
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Two-wheeler maker Hero MotoCorp Ltd was up 2.1 percent while rival Bajaj Auto Ltd rose 2 percent on hopes good monsoon rains will boost sales, especially in the rural markets.
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MUMBAI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - India's Bajaj Finance Ltd has launched a share sale to institutional investors to raise up to 45 billion rupees ($702 million), according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday.
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Motorcycle companies based outside the United States include Japan's Honda Motor Co Ltd and Yamaha Corp, Europe's BMW and Ducati as well as India's Hero MotoCorp Ltd, Bajaj Auto Ltd, among others.
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Seven of the companies are part of the benchmark NSE index: Dr. Reddy's, the drug maker Cipla Ltd, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Tata Steel, the IT services company Wipro, and Bajaj Finance.
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The coming week sees June-quarter results picking up pace with prominent companies like Reliance Industries, ACC, Jubilant Foodworks, Crisil, Ultratech Cement, Wipro, Bajaj Auto, Kotak Bank and Ashok Leyland reporting their numbers.
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"In the last eight to ten years, DC has come into its own," says Ashok Bajaj, an award-winning restaurateur whose company The Knightsbridge Restaurant Group runs the stunning modern Indian restaurant Rasika.
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Bajaj said he doesn't have concrete plans for how the capital will be spent, but he envisages 12-14 deals per year "with more bias given to seed" over Series A and B deals.
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"We like the sector on expectations of high contracted sales after a phase of negative cashflows when they were in their growth phase," said Dhiraj Bajaj, fund manager at Lombard Odier's asset management business.
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Mohit Bajaj, director of ETF trading solutions at WallachBeth Capital LLC in New York, said the severity of the sell-off was partly due to investors misreading the outcome and betting the wrong way.
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"We sold off 10 percent, now we're up 10 percent — people are not fully confident that the S&P is going to stay at these levels," Bajaj told CNBC in a phone interview Friday.
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"In India there are certain relationships between caste, religion and allegiance," said VK Bajaj, chief executive of Today's Chanakya, the only polling firm to predict the BJP would win an outright majority in 2014.
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Niti Aayog officials met with executives from companies including Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp and TVS late on Friday, giving them two weeks to come up with the plan, according to one of the executives.
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Bajaj — who'd earlier in his career spent seven years as a scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — presumably could have landed at another venture firm, a growing number of which are making life sciences investments.
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Bajaj declined to comment about the financial specifics of the new initiative, such as whether Foresite Labs would take any ownership in the companies it helps start or offer external entrepreneurs financial incentives for joining.
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Bajaj Finance has mandated eight banks on a US$575m syndicated loan, the largest debut deal of the year from the NBFC sector, while Tata Capital Financial Services launched a US$135m borrowing last week.
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Avnish Bajaj of venture capital firm Matrix Partners, which has investments in payments companies ItzCash, Mswipe, and ride hailing firm Ola, which has its own e-wallet, agrees there will be a clearout under competitive pressure.
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In addition, the hurdles have meant that many science and health researchers focus on rare diseases that impact a small part of the population, rather than big, societal problems like heart disease and cancer, Bajaj said.
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State-owned National Hydroelectric Power Corp and Bajaj Finance, a private sector non-banking financial company, are the latest to jump onto the bandwagon with debut Samurai loans, tapping into cash-rich, yield-hungry Japanese banks.
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The firm also found that Mr. Onuma had adjusted the compensation of Itaru Koeda, a former Nissan director, by about $93,000, and the compensation of Arun Bajaj, a former executive in Nissan's human resources department, by $46,000.
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Bajaj points to acquisitive Indian category leaders — including the likes of Ola, Paytm and others — that have reached sufficient size and have looked to other Indian startups to build up their businesses or expand into verticals via deals.
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When the restaurant needed a redesign, Bajaj switched out his booths for smaller tables, making it more profitable to accommodate the influx of couples looking to get to know each other over the course of a few hours.
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Bajaj Finance is selling up to 26.6 million shares at 1,690 rupees each, or a 5.8 percent discount to its Tuesday closing price on the National Stock Exchange, according to a separate deal term sheet seen by Reuters.
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This is a sign that "people are thinking that the U.S. markets are overbought at these levels, and moving their money to emerging markets and even gold," said Mohit Bajaj, director of ETF trading solutions at WallachBeth Capital.
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A number of first-time high-yield bond issuers from India to Indonesia has been unable to get deals done over the past two months, said Dhiraj Bajaj, head of Asia fixed income at private bank Lombard Odier.
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The devices are priced at Rs 9,999 ($154), and Rs 4,499 ($69), respectively, and Google confirmed that they are available for purchase online via Flipkart and offline through over 750 retailer stores, including Reliance Digital, Croma and Bajaj Electronics.
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Internally, it has relocated global head of financial firms Jeremy Amias from Hong Kong as co-head of global banking for Americas, and Singapore-based head of transaction banking for banks Anurag Bajaj as head of transaction banking in Americas.
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HK/SIN U.S. - Federal Open Market Committee policy decision Earnings - Siam Cement, Singapore Exchange, Nissan, Nintendo, Advantest, Fanuc, LG Display, Kia Motors, SK Telecom, UMC, AU Optronics, Bajaj Auto Japan - Bank of Japan policy meeting Singapore - Unemployment rate, 10:30 a.m.
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Last year, Tananbaum also recruited recruited Vik Bajaj, who co-founded Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily and was formerly the chief scientific officer of Grail, a well-funded company that's developing a blood test to detect cancer in its earliest stages.
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MUMBAI, July 21 (Reuters) - India's Bajaj Auto is close to forming an alliance but the name of the other party would be announced once the formalities were completed, Chief Financial Officer Kevin D'sa told analysts at a post-earnings call on Friday.
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Also wanting to tap offshore funds are non-bank finance companies (NBFCs) Bajaj Finance, Tata Capital, Tata Motor Finance, L&T Finance and Shriram Transport Finance, according to bankers who estimate that in total they hope to secure $2.0 billion-$2.5 billion.
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In Uttar Pradesh, top producers such as Mawana Sugars Ltd , Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar Ltd and Simbhaoli Sugars Ltd, as well as unlisted Modi Sugar Mills, Wave Industries and Yadu Sugar Ltd, owe the bulk of arrears to farmers, according to the industry and government sources.
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The chunky, low-powered vehicles, made by Bajaj Auto Ltd , are billed as a greener alternative to ordinary cars and India's ubiquitous 3-wheel auto rickshaws, sometimes called tuk-tuks, which are cheap but give passengers hardly any protection from petrol fumes and monsoon rains.
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The comment, initially made at Bajaj Auto's annual meeting late on Thursday, sparked speculation in local media that the Indian motorbike manufacturer may be close to a partnership or deal with iconic European motorcycle brand Ducati, which is being sold by Germany's Volkswagen. bit.
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Some familiar faces are joining, including Gemma Whelan, who you may recognize as Yara Greyjoy from Game of Thrones, Harry Potter alum Pedja Bjelac, Succession guest star Dame Harriet Walter, and Raj Bajaj from the holiday favorite Netflix movie A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.
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A recent photo taken at Jean-Georges, a three-Michelin-star restaurant on the first floor of Mr. Trump's namesake hotel in New York, made Mr. Bajaj hopeful that the president, who has expressed a fondness for well-done steaks, may be a fan of seafood.
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Bajaj, an associate professor of radiology at Stanford and a member of the University of California at Berkeley's college of chemistry advisory board, expects the bulk of companies who join Foresite Labs will fall into one of three main categories: drug development, healthcare delivery, and early disease detection.
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While passenger vehicle sales at Maruti Suzuki, which sells one in every two cars in India, rose just 0.6 percent to 135,948 units in October from a year ago, motorbike and scooter sales are strong as shown by the 33 percent growth reported by Bajaj Auto Ltd (BAJA.NS).
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Shares of Bajaj Auto Ltd gained as much as 3.1 percent after the company posted a 26 percent jump in total vehicle sales for April, while Tata Motors Ltd rose up to 3.3 percent after reporting an 86 percent surge in domestic sales of commercial and passenger vehicles last month.
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The complexities that arise from being a nexus of immigration, power and wealth have traditionally been reflected even in the city's expense-account haunts, notably those operated by the Indian-American restaurateur Ashok Bajaj, the Spanish-American chef José Andrés and, before them, the revered French chefs Jean-Louis Palladin and Michel Richard.
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Anurag Bajaj, who oversees the British-based lender's correspondent banking business, where it provides services for other banks, said the bank was reviewing the implications of last month's move by the outgoing Obama administration to unfreeze assets and remove financial sanctions in return for its help in fighting Islamic State and other groups.
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All of these could mean that IPO exits may be on the horizon for Indian startups, potentially within the next two-three years, Bajaj said, but already exit opportunities are appearing and they don't all need to involve a Walmart buying a Flipkart — the $16 billion, while generating huge returns, isn't particularly repeatable for a market.
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The company's biggest challenge now: capturing market share as fast as possible from its better-known and more richly funded regional competitors, including the Alibaba and SoftBank-backed outfit Paytm, whose parent company was recently valued at $33 billion; and MobiKwik, which reportedly raised around $35 million earlier this month from the non-bank finance company Bajaj Auto Finance.
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" Says Bajaj of the multi-stage firm, whose checks range in size from $1 million, all the way to $50 million: "The amount of data to inform decisions in bio medical investing is enormous, from biological to preclinical and clinical data, to data about how products are going to be marketed and used and approved by regulators.
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Dubbed 'The Collective,' the syndicate includes money from Flipkart co-founder Binny Bansal — Flipkart, of course, sold a majority stake to Walmart for $1003 billion last year — and VCs Salil Deshpande of Bain Capital Ventures, Matrix India trio Avnish Bajaj, Tarun Davda and Vikram Vaidyanathan, Navroz Udwadia from Falcon Edge Capital and Rahul Mehta of DST Global.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "An Overdue Reckoning for Apu," by Vikas Bajaj (Editorial Observer, April 30), about an Indian character on the animated TV series "The Simpsons" that some South Asians find offensive: This is a ridiculous commentary on a self-made, hardworking Indian who happens to own and work in a store where his accent won't hurt him.
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And the honorees also include Tahiris Castillo, 21, Philadelphia, for volunteering with numerous NGOs and non-profits; Tyler Carach, 10, from Alabama, of "I Donut Need a Reason to Thank a Cop" which supports the police; aspiring surgeon Vanica Bajaj, 21, Boston, who's started a project to provide mobile Breast Cancer Screening System for Ghana; Victor Ye, 16, from California, founded InnovaYouth, which promotes intellectual curiosity in the so-called Generation Z. Last but not least, Kanchan Amatya, 23, an anti-poverty campaigner from Missouri, founded the youth-led social enterprise, Sustainable Fish Farming Initiative, and the founders of the YesSheCan Campaign, a non-profit made up of nine young people aged 15-23 from New Jersey, which focuses on inspiring girls and young women to continue their education and share their stories to make a difference.
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