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Disney's iconic Mickey and Friends characters as well as Aladdin, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Dumbo and the cast of "Jungle Book" will now be published in the country by Penguin Random House, which on Tuesday announced the launch with Disney India's consumer products business.

To further improve ease of doing business, the government is considering amendments to the Companies Act, corporate affairs minister Arun Jaitley said. The Companies Law Committee, which submitted its report to the government on February 1, has suggested amendments to 78 sections of the act.

Banks have so far disbursed over Rs 1.15 lakh crore under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana, financial services secretary Anjuly Chib Duggal said on Tuesday. MUDRA focuses on 5.75 crore self-employed who use funds totalling Rs 11 lakh crore and provide jobs to 12 crore people.

Aluminium company NALCO's plan to buy back up to 32.5 billion rupees ($483 million) of government shares will be delayed to the next fiscal year because of procedural delays, mines secretary Balvinder Kumar said on Tuesday.

India's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, is muscling into the cable TV sector as part of a media and telecoms offensive that pits him against his once-estranged younger brother Anil and threatens to shake up both industries.

India has given private assurances that it will not grant licences allowing local firms to override patents and make cheap copies of drugs by big western drugmakers, a US business advocacy group said. The comments were made in a report by the US-India Business Council to the US Trade Representative.

The long-term sustainability of these new centres is a challenge. India needs at least 600 such institutes to stop 200,000 students migrating to foreign universities each year

Jaitley said that the import of cheap steel from China was hurting Indian manufacturers

The government is lining up a series of steps to cut the time for clearing export and import consignments by half and help reduce the transaction time for Indian traders.

At least five private equity investors, including Carlyle, Standard Chartered PE, NewQuest, Tata Opportunities Fund and Blackstone, are in the fray to buy IFCI’s 26% stake in Stock Holding Corporation of India (SHCIL), the largest custodian of securities.