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HDFC: Cashing in at the right time
The cost at which home loan major HDFC is borrowing Rs 4,000 crore — 7.15 per cent for two years and 7.85 per cent for three years — is very reasonable. The money will come in handy for the company to subscribe to warrants of HDFC Bank for an estimated amount of Rs 3,600 crore. The qualified institutional buyers (QIBs) who have bought the non-convertible debentures (NCDs) are also entitled to warrants, which can be converted into shares within three years at Rs 3,265 per share.
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C&C Constructions qualifies for Rs 20k cr road projects

Infrastructure player C&C Constructions today said it has cleared the technical qualification round for building several highway projects worth around Rs 20,000 crore in the country. - Highways development back on track in 2009 - RInfra bags Rs 1,000 cr Kandla-Mundra road project in Gujarat - Automatic tolling a non-starter as developers dither imports - NHAI plans pvt hands for toll collection - IL&FS Transportation qualifies for Rs 16k cr projs - NHAI to appoint consultant for assessing credit needs The company also said it would focus on road projects in West Asia to increase revenues from international business. "We have qualified for Rs 20,000 crore worth of projects of National Highways Authority of India (NHAI)," C&C Constructions Ltd Chairman G S Johar told PTI. He said about 25-30 per cent of all the projects that the company has qualified for are based on build-operate-transfer (BOT) annuity contracts. Under the BOT annuity scheme, private developers get half-yearly payments from the government for building and maintaining the roads. Johar said the company plans to develop projects both as part of a consortium as well as on its own. On expanding the firm"s global business, he said, "We plan to increase the share of revenues from our international business to 25 per cent from 15 per cent currently."


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