NDTV received a showcause notice from the Income Tax department relating to a Rs 450-crore tax dispute. The notice was issued in consequence to an assessment of AY 2009-10, which is sub-judice before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. NDTV said that the matters included in the notice are “premature, arbitrary and unlikely to be sustained in law.”
HDFC Life and Max Life said they would explore options of merging their businesses to create India's biggest private life insurer. A three-decade-old personal relationship between HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh and Max Financial Services chief Analjit Singh played a key role in the decision to consider a merger that would spawn India's biggest