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Advance tax collection from the country’s top 100 companies, according to the final numbers, declined by 1.4 per cent to Rs 30,763 crore in the third quarter of 2011-12, indicating sluggishness in the economy. These corporate houses had paid Rs 31,203 crore in the same period last year. Full Article

Following the recent downgrade of the country’s largest lender State Bank of India by credit rating agency Moody’s Investor Services, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to focus on recovery and follow a stringent credit appraisal procedure. The RBI has asked banks to remain cautious in the wake of a higher-than-expected rate hike that could have an adverse impact on the asset quality of banks. Full Article

Major public sector banks, including State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda, are likely to soon raise lending rates making home, auto and commercial loans expensive. As many as a dozen banks, including private sector leader ICICI Bank have already hiked their lending rate by 25 basis points in response to the tightening of monetary policy by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) last month. Full Article

Country's largest bank SBI has breached RBI's credit exposure norms during three consecutive years with regard to its loans provided to Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL). The public sector lender, which also has significant exposures to troubled Air India besides certain telecom firms being probed in relation to the 2G scam, has now disclosed that its credit to RIL was in excess of the limits prescribed under the RBI's prudential credit norms. Full Article

The Government of India has decided to raise the limit for external commercial borrowings to $30 billion from $20 billion before, a senior finance ministry official said on Friday. The government has decided not to raise the foreign institutional investor limit in government bonds, said the official, who did not wish to be named. FIIs can invest up to $10 billion in government bonds currently. Full Article

State Bank of India (SBI) will introduce green-channel banking at more of its branches to promote paperless work and to facilitate faster transactions for customers, SBI sources said. All major transactions, including withdrawals, deposits and remittances up to Rs 40,000, will be made through green-channel banking, which was introduced at 26 out of 680 branches of the bank in the first phase, the bank's General Manager (Network-II), Devendra Prasad, said today. Full Article

As many as 57 Indian companies including Reliance Industries , State Bank of India and Oil & Natural Gas Corp. figure in The Forbes Global 2000 list of public companies based on their rankings for sales, profits, assets and market value. Reliance with sales of $45.3 bn is ranked 121st in the list with three public State Bank of India Group (136, $29.1 bn), Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (172, 22.6 bn) and Indian Oil (243, $52.1 bn) taking the next three places among the Indian .. Full Article

India’s largest lender, the State Bank of India (SBI) is set to increase its base rate by 25 basis points, the Business Standard reported Monday. According to the report, the SBI is set to increase its base rate by 0.25 percent before the Reserve Bank of India’s annual policy review schelduled for May 3. Full Article