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Reliance Capital acquires 6.83% equity stake in Saregama
BENGALURU: Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company Reliance Capital Limited (RCL) has acquired a 6.83 per cent equity stake totalling 11.88 lakh shares from the open market of Indian custodians of music – Saregama Limited (Saregama).
RCL has filed disclosures under Regulation 29 (1) of SEBI (Substantial Acquisition of Shares and Takeovers) Regulations, 2011 at the bourses today. Before the acquisition, RCL did not have any stake in the company.
Saregma has an equity share capital of Rs 17.40 crore for 1.74 crore shares of face value of Rs 10 each. At the time of writing of this report (29 December) the share closed at Rs 362.40 on the BSE, Re 1 lower (0.27 per cent down) from the previous close of Rs 364.40. The high for the day was Rs 388.10 and the low for the day was Rs 360.50. Over the past 52 weeks, the share had a high of Rs 509.00 and a low of Rs 116.00.
The share closed at Rs 362.90 down as compared to the previous close of Rs 363.55 on the NSE. The share had opened at Rs 370 today and had an intraday high of Rs 388.25 and an intraday low of Rs 360.00. The 52 week high on the NSE was Rs 509 on 10 August, 2015, and the 52 week low was Rs 114.95 on 27 March, 2015.
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Samsung certifies 1,000 Maharashtra students in AI and coding
The South Korean electronics giant marks its first large-scale skilling push in the state, with women making up nearly half the national programme’s enrolment
PUNE: Samsung has put 1,000 students in Maharashtra through a certified training programme in artificial intelligence and coding, the largest such drive the South Korean electronics company has run in the state and a signal that corporate India’s skilling ambitions are moving well beyond the boardroom brochure.
The certifications were awarded under Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), the company’s flagship corporate social responsibility programme, which launched in India in 2022 with the stated aim of democratising access to future-technology education. The 1,000 graduates were drawn from four institutions: 127 from Savitribai Phule Pune University, 373 from Pimpri Chinchwad University, 250 from D.Y. Patil University’s Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology and 250 from Anjuman-I-Islam’s Kalsekar Technical Campus. All completed training in either AI or coding and programming, the two disciplines Samsung has identified as the critical pillars of the digital economy.
The programme does not stop at technical training. Soft-skills development and career-readiness modules are baked into the curriculum, a deliberate attempt to close the gap between what universities teach and what employers actually want.
“India’s digital growth story will ultimately be shaped by the quality of its talent pipeline,” said Shubham Mukherjee, head of CSR and corporate communications at Samsung Southwest Asia. “As technologies like AI move from the periphery to the core of industries, skilling must evolve from basic training to building real-world capability. This milestone in Maharashtra reflects how industry and academia can come together to create a future-ready workforce that is both globally competitive and locally relevant.”
The Maharashtra drive sits within a rapidly scaling national effort. Samsung Innovation Campus trained 20,000 young people across India in 2025, hitting its stated target for the year. Women account for 48 per cent of national enrolments, a figure the company cites as evidence of its push for an inclusive technology ecosystem. The programme is implemented in partnership with the Electronics Sector Skills Council of India and the Telecom Sector Skill Council.
Samsung, which is marking 30 years in India this year, runs SIC alongside two other initiatives, Samsung Solve for Tomorrow and Samsung DOST, as part of a broader effort to build what it calls a generation of innovators with both the technical depth and the problem-solving mindset to thrive in a fast-moving digital world.
A thousand certified students is a tidy headline. Whether they find jobs that match their new skills is the harder question, and the one that will ultimately determine whether corporate skilling programmes like this one are genuine pipelines or well-photographed gestures.
