Paytm plans to pump in the money on merchant expansion in both online and offline modes as well as to make an aggressive push in the financial services business

These tweets and warnings come after scores of Paytm users registered complaints with the company's cyber cell and the RBI ombudsman over fraudulent claims

The buzz is that the investors include Ant Financial, one of Paytm's earliest backers, and Softbank Group Corp, which had pumped in $1.4 billion last year, the largest fund infusion by a single investor in a desi start-up

Paytm Payments Bank (PPB) also notified a new fixed deposit (FD) scheme which offers customers an interest rate of up to 7.5% on deposits through its partner bank.

Paytm plans to remain private until it builds on its business and takes it to the next level, said Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekar Sharma.

In a regulatory filing to the exchanges, the Coffee Day Enterprises said that it had signed definitive agreements with Blackstone Group and Bengaluru-based real estate developer Salarpuria Sattva Group for investment in GV Techparks Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tanglin Development Limited (TDL).

The sale of Global Village Tech park reportedly involves an initial payment of Rs 2,000 crore in the coming weeks while the remaining Rs 700 crore will be paid within the next one year. This is CDEL's first major divestiture in a bid to pare down its Rs 4,970 crore debt.

This development comes less than a month after CDEL, owner of cafe chain Cafe Coffee Day, sold Global Village Tech Park to Blackstone. The company has been trying to divest its assets to pare its debts since the death of its founder, VG Siddhartha.

According to latest data available with exchange, Edelweiss and Indusind Bank, the lenders to troubled Gonibedu Coffee Estate, invoked entire 5.24 per cent of the CDEL shares, the promoter company had pledged with them

Gangaiah Hegde was suffering a head injury and was in coma for some time. His cremation will take place in Chikmagalur district at around 4:30 pm today

According to police sources, water was found in Siddhartha's lungs and his death was due to drowning.

The Coffee Day Enterprises share has risen for the first time in last three-weeks after the sudden demise of its founder VG Siddhartha; the stock has fallen as much as 68 per cent since July 26, 2019, from Rs 195 to hit an all-time low of Rs 62.95 on August 16

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Biggest share of the group's loans is with the real estate development subsidiary, Tanglin Developments, which has secured unpaid loans of Rs 1,622 crore

The apex body for direct taxes has sought explanation from BR Balakrishnan, who previously served as the principal chief commissioner of Income Tax for Karnataka and Goa and had ordered attachment of Coffee Day Enterprises shares when he was in-charge of the Bengaluru region

The closure of the transaction will be subject to Blackstone completing due diligence, documentation and receiving regulatory approvals. The company expects the formalities to complete in the next 30-45 days

CDEL, the holding company of Coffee Day group firms, said in a stock-exchange filing that it has entered into a non-binding agreement with New York-based private equity giant Blackstone to disinvest its Global Village Tech Park in Bengaluru

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