Bloomberg Suzlon Energy Ltd., which became India’s biggest convertible-note defaulter in 2012, slumped in Mumbai after missing payments on dollar-denominated convertibles. Shares of the stressed wind-turbine maker fell as much as 8.6 perce-nt in trading on Wednesday after missing a deadline to repay $172 million outstanding on the securities. While an earlier debt revamp helped the company’s shares surge in ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Azim Premji has helped create India’s latest tech unicorn: a fast-rising software startup that symbolises the growing investor interest in the Asian nation’s enterprise technology space. Icertis, which competes with SAP SE and Oracle Corp to help businesses manage contracts in the cloud, has raised $115 million, propelling it to unicorn status as investors flock to enterprise software ...

Bloomberg As rice prices plunge, farmers in the Philippines are asking President Rodrigo Duterte to review a 5-month-old law that paved the way for unlimited imports of the staple grain, Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Pinol said. Rice prices at the farm gate dropped to 12-14 pesos ($0.24-$0.27) a kilo from 20 pesos earlier this year, Pinol said on his Facebook account. ...